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A Day on Skates
In honor of her life and work, Bethlehem Books is very happy to bring back one of the most delightful family books ever written. With this 1935 Newbery Honor book, author/illustrator Hilda van Stockum made her debut into the world of children's books. Within its pages she adroitly captures Dutch life as it was in the early part of the 20th century.

Twins Afke and Evert have a particularly understanding teacher who decides to take his class on a winter skating trip to a nearby town. Evert and his buddies, shy Simon and loyal Afke all have their share of adventures. Everyone (Teacher most of all) breathes a happy sigh of relief upon arriving home safely after a very full day.

Grade Level: PreK-2
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350180

Member Price:	$19.95

Alvin Fernald, Foreign Trader
Alvin Fernald’s “Magnificent Brain” has a life of its own. In fact, somehow or other it has come up with the winning grand prize recipe in a candy-making contest—and no one, including Alvin, can figure out quite how it happened. Now, as guests of the Kitchenmate Appliance Company, Alvin, his friend Shoie, and his sister Daphne (“The Pest”) take off for a whirlwind tour of Europe. Having just come to the edge of flunking a class in economics (Magnificent Brain, where were you?), Alvin is about to be given a practical—and perilous—lesson in international trade. Mystery, ingenuity—and, well bicycles—hilariously collide in this next book about Alvin by the former editor of Popular Mechanics Magazine, Clifford B. Hicks.

Grade Level: 4-9
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937744

Member Price:	$11.95

Alvin Fernald, Mayor For A Day
Mayor Alvin Fernald. Wow! Alvin's dreams of political grandeur may become a reality—in 5th grade! A class project turns into a major—or we should say, “mayor,” event when Riverton's Mayor Massey proposes to turn the city government over to the winner of the class election and his party for one whole day. Things pop right along as Alvin, with the helpful maneuverings of Speedy Glomitz, runs against the no-longer-shy Theresa Undermine. Sometimes Speedy's maneuvering is a little disconcerting. What's really going on behind those lazy eyes that don’t seem to miss a thing? The tension continues to build when Alvin is elected, and though he may not like Mayor Massey, he definitely likes being mayor for a day! But it seems that Speedy is now ready to collect for services rendered, staying immovably in the picture—and in Alvin’s office! When the “mayor’s” secretary, the Pest, finds a little leather-bound book at the bottom of a drawer the situation becomes critical. The mysterious facts it discloses puts Alvin's Magnificent Brain and his freewheeling 5th grade government staff to the supreme test—bringing the day of a lifetime to a smashing—and satisfying—close.

Grade Level: 4-9
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937980

Member Price:	$11.95

Alvin's Secret Code
The first story about Alvin, possessor of the “Magnificent Brain,” and “Shoie,” his sports-hero pal, is back in print! In Alvin’s Secret Code, the two twelve-year-olds happen across a peculiar piece of paper in the gutter of a sidewalk. Yes, it’s in code, and a tangled adventure begins, enlivened by Alvin’s sister Daphne (“The Pest”), younger than he is but often wiser. Readers are not only invited to assist in untangling a century old mystery. They will suddenly find themselves engrossed in mastering the basics of cryptography, a highly useful art for solving and keeping secrets when threatening criminals show up. Join Alvin and Company for fun, mystery and adventure—with authentic instruction in the art of code making and breaking.

Grade Level: 4-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350005

Member Price:	$11.95

Archimedes and The Door Of Science
Jeanne Bendick, through text and pictures, admirably succeeds in bringing to life the ancient Greek mathematician who enriched mathematics and all branches of science. Against the backdrop of Archimedes's life and culture, the author discusses the man's work, his discoveries and the knowledge later based upon it. The simple, often humorous, illustrations and diagrams greatly enhance the text. Ages 10 and up.

Grade Level: 4-10
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937126

Member Price:	$14.95

Around The Year
Ethel Pochocki, whimsically and unforgettably, presents a new set ofheavenly friends to readers young and old in this third collection of Once Upon a Time Saints stories. Beginning in the dark of December, the start of the Church Year, there are stories and poems for each month, all bursting with saintly-not to mention angelic-deeds and happenings. Each tale or verse-whether of mystical apparitions in a tiny Irish village or of friars who float in the air or of entire countries single-handedly converted to Christianity-makes it quite plain that heaven doesn't keep to its place at all, but is happily determined to spill over into earthly life-here, there and . . . all around the year.

Grade Level:
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350265

Member Price:	$14.95

Augustine Came To Kent
It is the year 597 and Pope Gregory is sending a select number of his monks, led by Fr. Augustine, to re-evangelize England. Young Wolf, born in that land but raised in Rome, accompanies his father, Wolfstan, who goes as a guide and interpreter. Though the King of Kent's wife is a Christian, the missionaries from Rome do not know whether they will be welcomed, tolerated or martyred. In a story full of adventure, Wolf meets Fritha, a Saxon girl whose life and destiny are soon closely bound up with his own. Events, significant in the history of Christianity, are vividly brought to life by this veteran writer of historical fiction. Ages 10 and up.

Grade Level: 4-9
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937218

Member Price:	$12.95

Away Goes Sally
Sally belongs to a household full of aunts and uncles, all headed by her Uncle Joseph and ruled over by his sister Nannie. But now these two are at loggerheads, caused by Cousin Ephraim's letter, urging them to resettle in his Maine vicinity. Fortunately Uncle Joseph has a clever plan. It will launch them on a winter saga, employing a mode of travel only a New England Yankee could have invented. Sally-and the reader-will enjoy the surprises of this journey, taken in company with her lively and lovable relations. A story full of early American detail, set in the era shortly before the War of 1812. Ages 8 and up.

Grade Level: 2-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937836

Member Price:	$10.95

Becky Landers: Frontier Warrior

“Becky Landers, being the man of the family, knew that if there was to be turkey on the Christmas dinner table, she would have to provide it.”

Although Becky’s 16-year-old brother had been taken by Indians in the past year, and Becky’s father savagely slain on their earlier journey to the frontier woods of Kentucky, Becky has indomitable spunk. For the moment, it inspires her determination to go after a turkey outside the town walls of Maybrook. But for the long range, Becky has more ambitious plans, born of her unquenchable hope that Rodney, her brother, yet survives.

In the year 1778, as the War for Independence rages, Becky forms a plan to join the audacious Captain George Rogers Clark on his daredevil mission to win the British holdings at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. She hopes to rescue her brother near Kaskaskia. Naturally, she will meet every form of resistance to such an outrageous initiative from a 15-year-old girl.

This vivid and well-researched novel paints, in the author’s words, “a composite picture of communal and family life in Kentucky with its forts, its cabins, its sports and customs, as well as of the sterner life of its warriors and hunters” and shows us “the heroic part played by the women and the young girls.” We are memorably introduced to the historic figures of Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Simon Kenton, the Frenchman De Quindre, the Indian Black Fish and others, who interweave with Becky’s adventures in as colorful a manner as their actual personalities deserve.

Grade Level: 5-9
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350067

Member Price:	$12.95

Beorn The Proud
Two cultures, two faiths, struggle against each other in this exciting story by Madeleine Polland. You can almost hear the clash of arms and taste the Great Hall feasts in this authentic recreation of 9th century Europe, when Viking raiders ravaged the coasts of Ireland. Amid the battles and shipwrecks and deeds of bravery and treachery, twelve-year-old Beorn learns Christian humility from his young captive, Ness, the daughter of an Irish chieftain. Youngsters will enjoy the adventure, while their parents appreciate the realism.

Grade Level: 4-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937089

Member Price:	$14.95

Beowulf the Warrior
Beowulf the Warrior is an outstanding modern version of the oldest epic in the English language. Ian Serraillier has retold in verse the story of the hero Beowulf and his three memorable exploits-first, his rescuing of Hrothgar the Dane from the ravages of monstrous Grendel; next, his victory over Grendel's strange and horrible mother; and finally, in Beowulf's old age, his saving of his own people, the Geats, from the horrors of a dragon at the cost of his life.

Beowulf's heroism and noble heart communicate to any modern listener. Illustrated by Severin.

Grade Level: 4-Adult
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937034

Member Price:	$10.95

Between The Forest and The Hills
A humorous fantasy tale set in ancient Britain. Iscium, an isolated Roman town in the west of Britain, is cut off from the collapsing Empire. Most of the town senators and officials are primarily concerned with keeping a low profile with the neighboring barbarians and renovating the city baths--with the exception of the crotchety old bishop. But when young Falx runs away, and finds a lost barbarian girl, things begin to happen. The children are brought back by a one-eyed merchant who returns them to an Iscium quivering with the possibility of a barbarian invasion. The mysterious merchant has a plan--involving two talking ravens and The Hallelujah Chorus--and life is never quite the same again, for either the Romans or their invaders. A zany mix of history, humor, and the miraculous--in the satisfying tradition of Don Camillo. Ages 14 and up.

Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937393

Member Price:	$12.95

Beyond The Desert Gate
Sequel to The Ides of April. Palestine in the first century A.D. is as disturbed and divided as it is today. The Jews have revolted against Roman occupation and as they grow more restive, Rome clamps down harder. The ten Greek cities of Palestinethe Decapoliswant only to continue their peaceful trading existence, but they find themselves caught in the middle of the uprisings. Apollodorus, a merchant of Philadelpia, takes a risk and rescues a man whom a Roman patrol has left to die in the desert. When Apollodorus is killed by robbers, his three sons are left almost penniless. Conan, Nicanor and Philo must each find a way for themselves. Philo, the youngest, is befriended by Xenos, the man saved from the desert, the man who has lost his memory. From him the boy learns the art of the scribe, and together they try to find their identityone from the past, the other for the future. A serious story of an important time in history. Ages 14 and up.

Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937546

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Big Johns Secret
There is a mystery woven into Big Johns young life that he must solve. Raised during the strife-filled days of the reign of King John of England, in a rude peasant village by Old Marm, John understands that injustice has been done his family and that Old Marm is preparing him one day to reclaim his name and family honor. He must avenge his unknown father! But Old Marm dies, and he is left without a clue to his name. In the next years Johns unusual size and strength (and the knowledge he has gained of letters and of the art of healing) earn him a place as page to an earl organizing the 5th Crusade. In the Holy Land John searches for a father he hopes is living still. Amidst battle, capture and setbacks, Johnnow a squire to a Knight Hospitallerencounters Francis of Assisi, who had come to the Holy Land just at this time to preach the Gospel to the Saracens. As John perseveres, Francis helps to bring about the final outcome. Ages 10 and up.

Grade Level: 4-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937898

Member Price:	$12.95

Borrowed House
When Janna is suddenly summoned from Germany to join her actor parents in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, she is shocked by the Dutch hatred for the Germans. Her favorite Nordic tales and Hitler Youth indoctrination have not prepared her for the complexities of living in a house requisitioned by a military friend of her parents; or for the violence she sees on the streets. With her parents preoccupied by their perplexing adult world of careers and relationships, Janna is lonely and full of unwelcome questions. It is the house itself which begins to provide real, if painful, answers to Jannas bewildermentbut not before it adds its own set of mysteries to solve. A well-developed, true-to-life tale for teenagers. Ages 14 and up.

Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937461

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Brave Buffalo Fighter
This powerful story, presented in the simple language of 10-year-old Susan Parker, really centers around the characterization of Jerry, Sues 12-year-old brother. The Parker family, unused to any kind of pioneering life, leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1860, part of a westward-bound wagon train. Each family member is challenged by the hardships of a difficult journey in which a jumble of classes and types of people must learn how to pull together. Jerry thrives on the life, and is prepared, when the call comes, to sacrifice much for the sake of the common good. Here is an unusually realistic and moving tale of pioneer spirit on the American plains. Ages 12 and up.

Grade Level: 6-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937591

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Canadian Summer
The large and growing Mitchell family, transferring their location to Montreal, cant find a house to buy or rent. They settle, over Mothers protests, for a remote, rickety summer house in the woods near a lake. The dangers, antics, quarrels, and fun which now unroll bring each member of the family into vivid characterization. Meanwhile we meet some delightful French Canadians and taste the special qualities of rural Quebec in the late 1940s. Ages 10 and up.

Grade Level: 4-9
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937140

Member Price:	$13.95

Downright Dency
This treasure of a novel, a Newbery Honor Book, is set on the island of Nantucket just before the War of 1812. Much more than a tale of whaling ships and gentle Quaker eccentricities, it is a tale of friendship-the kind most truly espoused by these 'plain' folk, with all the struggle and complexity one should expect. Dionis "Dencey" Coffyn is a mystery to her mother, Lydia, whose stern exterior hides a heart that breaks every time her husband Captain Tom goes to sea. Within a context of outward simplicity of living and inward intricacy of relationship, Dencey matures from the little girl who, in unquakerly violence of temper, throws a rock that wounds the town outcast. She becomes a young woman ready to bear her part in life with grace and courage. Downright Dencey is a probing portrayal of the power of love to overcome social barriers and religious strictures. Ages 12 and up.

Grade Level: 6-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937799

Member Price:	$12.95

Drovers Road Collection
Three books in one: Drovers Road, Cape Lost and The Golden Country! While her sprained ankle mends, young Gabrielle (Gay, for short) Allan decides to write a book about her home and family life on a New Zealand sheep station. To know horses, sheep, cattle and the land; to interact with local Maoris and wandering Aussies; to ride in the hunt meets, and to fall quite often into adventures of every kind are, at least according to Gay, part of what normal life should be. Through Gay's youthful recounting we begin to fall in love not only with her richly characterized New Zealand land, but above all with the adults and children (and animals!) who make up this country-bred society of the 1920s and '30s. Readers will be glad that in this book, they can move from Drovers Road to the next stage of Gay's growing-up life, when she comes into an inheritance in Cape Lost, and finally, accompany her through the tensions and rewards that bring her into adulthood in The Golden Country. Ages 12 and up.

Grade Level: 6-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937690

Member Price:	$16.95

Enemy Brothers
British airman Dym Ingleford is convinced that the young German prisoner, Max Eckermann, is his brother Anthony who was kidnapped years before. Raised in the Nazi ideology, Tony has by chance tumbled into British hands. Dym has brought him back, at least temporarily, to the family he neither remembers nor will acknowledge as his own. As Tony keeps attempting to escape, his stubborn anger is whittled away by the patient kindness he finds at the White Priory. Then, just as he is resigning himself to the English family, a new chance suddenly opens for him to return hometo Germany! Enemy Brothers, written in the early years of World War II, gives an inside view of the confusion war brings and of the triumph of the human spirit in the midst of it. Ages 10 and up.

Grade Level: 4-9
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937508

Member Price:	$14.95

First Farm In The Valley, Anna's Story
Six-year-old Anna Pellowski's older siblings, Jacob, Franciszek, Barney, Mary and Pauline are exposed to English at school, but only Polish is spoken at home. The younger children--Anna, Julian, Anton barely know a word of their new country's language, but then neither do many of their neighbors. When the family goes to town to celebrate the 100th birthday of the United States, the speaker gives his speech in a mix of German, Polish, Bohemian and Norwegian! Some years before, in the mid 1800's, Anna's mother, father and brother Baby Jacob had come from Poland to live in a tiny sod house in Western Wisconsin and establish the very first farm in the entire Latsch Valley. Now the growing family lives in a real house, with neighbors on every side, and the world for quietly curious Anna is filled with fascinating possibilities--as well as lots of hard work. Sometimes she dreams of going back to the Poland she is always hearing about, but increasingly she realizes that life in Latsch Valley, with its rich cultural rhythm of work, play and religious faith, holds everything she could possibly want.

Grade Level: 3-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350241

Member Price:	$12.95

Five Bushel Farm
Andrew must search the docks and find out if his missing captain-father has returned alive on his ship after all. So begins an adventure to unlikely places: to Maine frontiers, and new farms, and not-so-friendly Indians in these days of the early 1800s. But here Andrew finds cheer when he is taken in by the lively, determined families of Uncle Joseph and Uncle Ephraim. Sally and all her cousins, aunts, uncles, hired helpers and visitors seem to find a way around every flood, threat, and quarrel!

It is Andrew and Sally who find the perfect spot for the new house; and it is they whose friendliness towards the wary Indians ensures, finally, their farm's safety. Hope continues to grow that it will be possible to track Andrew's father, and to reach an honest compact between the farmers and the Indians. This is the second book in the "Sally" series, illustrated by Helen Sewell.

Grade Level: 3-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937843

Member Price:	$10.95

Flight Into Spring
The Civil War has just ended.Sally Day Hammond is a vivacious, tiny, coddled Southern lady.Charles Horne is silent, tall, unbending and from the North.They have been corresponding since Harper's Ferry and are now to be married.When Charles brings Sally back to live with his strict New England family, little wonder that tensions rise to the breaking point, but Sally has mettle.In the desperate honesty of this young couples conflict, both young hearts will have to truly stretch and meld. Amidst a rich historical setting, skilled novelist Bianca Bradbury brings all the resources of heartsearching realism to the predicaments of young married love. Ages 10 and up.

Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350012

Member Price:	$11.95

Following The Phoenix
Rafael le Marre collects three companions whom he leads on an adventurous journey from Paris to Letzenstein.The Revolution of February 1848 has erupted in France,Paul and Christie, both English, and Jeanne d'Estel of Valmay, have concerns of their own to pursue.But when the generous-hearted Rafael is arrested by political enemies, harrowing days follow.Important truths of character come to light, and Rafael's statute emerges: the "Phoenix" arises again from the ashes.

Grade Level: 3-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937263

Member Price:	$11.95

Francie On the Run
Young Francie O'Sullivan, from the Irish family we first met in The Cottage at Bantry Bay has had a successful operation in a Dublin hospital, but longs to return to his beloved family in County Cork. He heads out the hospital door, no permission asked, and finds a train-won't any train do? Francie finds himself making a speedy tour (in the opposite direction from home) around the Emerald Isle, a journey full of adventure, laughter, and endearing friendships for Francie and the reader. Illustrated by the author.

Grade Level: 4-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937133

Member Price:	$13.95

Friendly Gables
It is two years after the events in Canadian Summer.the Mitchells are settled in their new home, Friendly Gables - and twins have been added to the family.With Mother recovering from the births and with other changes in the household, the children must come to terms with themselves in new ways.Joan's first dance; Patsy losing her glasses; Peter's disastrous fight; Angela's misadventure in the woods; Timmy's "good news"; and Catherine's brush with fire - are only a few of the incidents in the life of this busy, growing family.With her usual humor and compassion, the author brings the Mitchell trilogy to a satisfying close. Ages 10 and up.

Grade Level: 4-9
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937195

Member Price:	$13.95

Galen and The Gateway To Medicine
We know about Hippocrates, the Father of medicine.but we owe nearly as much to Galen, a physician born in 129 A.D. at the height of the Roman Empire.Galen's acute diagnoses of patients, botanical wisdom, and studies of physiology were recorded in numerous books, handed down through the Middle Ages and Renaissance.Not least, Galen passed on the medical tradition of respect for life.In this fascinating biography for young people, Jeanne Bendick brings Galen's Roman world to life with the clarity, humor, and outstanding content we enjoyed in Archimedes and the Door to Science.

Grade Level: 3-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937751

Member Price:	$14.95

God King
A never-before published tale by the author of the best -selling Hittite Warrior, carries the reader back to Ancient Egypt and biblical Jerusalem.It is 701 B.C - rule of the Kushite dynasty in ancient Egypt.Young Prince Taharka, a very minor royal son, succeeds unexpectedly to the throne of Kush and Egypt - a "divine" rulership.It's not long, however, before a treacherous plot pushes him into sudden exile and into the hands of Amos, an emissary of King Hezekiah seeking help with whom he will fight - the mighty Assyrian, Sennacherib, promising alliance or Hezekiah, the Jew who trusts in Yahweh.A novel inspired by research of the historical King Taharka and period.Includes an introduction with home-education suggestions.

Grade Level: 3-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937737

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Happy Times In Noisy Village
Welcome to Noisy Village! Well, it’s not really quite what it sounds. Lisa, who tells the story, lives on Middle Farm with her parents and two brothers, Karl and Bill. Britta and Anna live at North Farm and Olaf and Kerstin live at South Farm. It is because the houses are right next door to each other in a clump as they liked to do these things in rural Sweden years ago, and because the children make so much racket that the farmhouses came to be so honestly and happily named. A large linden tree grows between Middle and South Farms and so the boys in the two houses visit each other by climbing through the branches—even the girls do it sometimes, like the night they all waited for Olaf to go to sleep so that they could pull out his loose tooth without his knowing it! That is only one of the many escapades designed to make readers young and old wish they could step right into the pages of this little book. Join the fun in this companion volume to The Children of Noisy Village (published by Viking Penguin). Illustrated with delightful line drawings by Ilon Wikland; translated by Florence Lamborn.

Grade Level: 3-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937669

Member Price:	$12.95

Hidden Treasure Of Glaston
A Newberry Honor Book!Amidst great mystery, Hugh is left in the care of Glastonbury Abbey by his father who must flee to England too swiftly to be burdened by a crippled son. Ashamed of his physical weakness, yet possessed of a stout heart, Hugh finds that life at the abbey is surprisingly full in this year 1171, in the turbulent days of King Henry II.Hugh, his friend Dickon and their strange friend, the mad Bleheris, uncover a treasure trove, and with it a deeper mystery of the sort that could only occur in Glastonbury where Joseph of Arimithea was said to have lived out his last years. Before all is done, more is resolved than Hugh could ever have hoped.Ages 10-up

Grade Level: 4-9
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937485

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Hittite Warrior
Judea has always been the crossroads and battlefield of contending nations. It is no less so in this biblical time of Barak and Deborah. Uriah Tarhunds Hititte home is destroyed by invading Greeks. His dying father tells him to go south to seek a Canaanite named Sisera. He will help you. For my sake. . . .Uriah is plunged into the tumult of an uneasy Judea. When he saves a young boy from being sacrificed to Moloch, he is given succor for a time by the Hebrews. Later, he finds Sisera and joins him in war against these same people. When the Canaanites are defeated, the young Hittite has the opportunity to come to a peace with himself, the Hebrew people and their God.This meticulously researched novel is set in the time of Judges, and incorporates Biblical facts with a gripping story, set against the wide background of ancient civilizations. Includes an introduction by Laura Berquist, author of Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum Age 10-up

Grade Level: 4-9
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937386

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Ides Of April
Hylas is a young Greek slave in the household of Caius Pomponius, a Roman Senator involved in political schemes. When the senator is found mysteriously murdered, the household slaves (including Hylas and his mother) fall under suspicion. Hylas escapes capture long enough to enlist the aid of a young tribune, Camillus Rufus. The desparate attempt to unravel the threads of the political intrigue carries Camillus into the very presence of Nero and brings Hylas into contact with the new secret sect of Christians.English author Mary Ray presents an unique historical mystery for teenagers. (See also the sequel, Beyond the Desert Gate.)

Grade Level: 8-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937430

Member Price:	$13.95

If All The Swords In England
Young Simon, recently and tragically orphaned, becomes a scribe in the following of the exiled Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The uncertainty of the tumultuous years leading to the infamous cathedral slaying is heightened by Simon's separation from his twin Edmund, who is in the service of King Henry II. With an expert pen Barbara Willard deftly recounts events leading to the bishop's martyrdom in 1170.

Grade Level: 3-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937492

Member Price:	$14.95

Jamberoo Road
Five years ago, in 1825, Missabella and her ten orphans—the “Switherby Pilgrims”—had voyaged from England to New South Wales, in primitive Australia. By dint of tough pioneering work they had turned their coastal land grant into a true, if rustic, home. Missabella, now, is determined to provide for the future of her orphans according to each one’s character. Not an easy task, with such a varied, ragtag, yet lovable set of personalities and backgrounds as they represent. Selina will train in Sydney to be a milliner; Paul may become a midshipman; Francis loves to farm. But what will satisfy clever, independent Cassie, who has ambitions to be a writer? The “Jamberoo Road” leads her inland, to the discomforts and enticements of being governess in a wealthy colonial family. There restless Luke, likewise employed by the family, as a stable boy, will create his own troubles. Cassie’s story, interwoven with Luke’s and that of all the other orphans’ and their former farmhand Eben’s, is both an account of personal growth and a vivid journey into early-day Australia.

Grade Level: 7-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350173

Member Price:	$12.95

John Treegate's Musket
It is 1769, ten years since America’s colonial militia had joined with the British regular army and defeated the French for dominion of Canada. The current of feeling about what it means to be loyal to the King has changed. While many colonists are angry about England’s unjust taxation, wealthy merchant John Treegate remains fiercely loyal and certain that an agreement can be reached between the colonies and their mother country. Deciding to travel to England to appeal to the government there means leaving his motherless, eleven-year-old son Peter on his own, apprenticed to one of Treegate’s friends, a manufacturer of barrel staves. Peter’s new master is not severe, but the senior apprentice is a vicious bully and worse. A chain of events leads to trouble for Peter—involving murder, shipwreck, loss of memory, adoption by a strange and bitter Scotsman, until finally he is reunited with his father on the eve of America’s battle for independence.

Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350166

Member Price:	$12.95

Kitchen Madonna
Marta is unhappy. For quietly aloof Gregory and his sister Janet, Marta, with her thick Ukrainian accent, her good cooking, and her stories, is the anchor of the house. Mother and Father, both busy architects, are gone all day and sometimes at night. Marta is always there; and the children, sensing her unhappiness, do not want her to go away. When they find out that Marta desires a good place in the kitchen, nine-year-old Gregory, with precocious young Janet in tow, sets out to find her a Ukrainian icon in busy, modern London. Master storyteller Rumer Godden deftly brings to life a portrait of a lonely boy discovering the creative power of love.

Grade Level:
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350234

Member Price:	$14.95

Long Way From Welcome
Cities scare Maggie McGilligan, so does change. But Welcome is Maggies town, her own beloved small-town, USA, full of its unique, familiar cadence and beat of train whistles, harvesting and woodland creatures. Maggie realizes that some change is inevitable now that her widowed mother, Mara, is about to marry Bartholomew Britt, a rugged carpenter from the Yukon. When Mara and Bartholomew inform her that they might have to sell her home and refuge, Tara, the floor of Maggies world begins to tilt. Mara and Bartholomew, while remodeling Tara, arrange for Maggie to stay with Bartholomews sister, a well-known painter who livesin Paris! Not only that, his sister is a nun! A convent in Paris, France? New friends and mysterious happenings in both Welcome and Paris unfold for Maggie as she catches the rhythm of life happening. . .a long way from Welcome. Ages 10 and up.

Grade Level: 4-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937645

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Madeline Takes Command
Madeleine Verchere's story is based on a true account of colonial French Canada of the 1690's. Harassed by Iroquois, the Verchere family's fort (seigneury) must keep a continual guard. 14-year-old Madeleine is left alone with two younger brothers and few others when the Indians attack. We follow the brave and determined stratagems of Madeleine and her small circle. Madeleine's youthful leadership, especially of her brothers, will win the reader's admiration. Age 10 and up.

Grade Level: 4-10
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937171

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Miracle Of St Nicholas
It was the day before Christmas in a small Russian village. Alexi's babushka was telling him what Christmas was like when she was a girlbefore the soldiers came. "Our church was as crowded as a pod full of peas. Candles made the church as bright as the sunniest day. Watching over us was the blessed icon of St. Nicholas." Alexi had many questions, including, "Why can't we celebrate Christmas tomorrow in St. Nicholas?" Babushka sadly replied that it would take a miracle after sixty years. Well, Alexi had heard enough. If there truly was such a thing as a miracle, why couldn't it happen here? And so unfolds a story that poignantly reveals how, though quiet and hidden, faith and hope cannot be suppressedby soldiers or by time. All ages.

Grade Level: K-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937188

Member Price:	$16.95

More Once Upon A Time Saints
Here are yet more of "those human and lovable people whose mysterious passion for God led them into preposterous escapades." Story-teller Ethel Pochocki presents a follow-up collection of wildly distinctive saintsfrom Hyacinth to Zita to Longinus to Kentigernand readers will again be charmed by the vivid immediacy of their settings. We find out what very real people they were, these saints who lived and breathed in a world as enticing and as changeful as our own. Yet their heroism is all their own. Ethel Pochocki leads us through their adventures, joys and sorrows to the truly happy ending each one gained. Ages 5 and up.

Grade Level: K-6
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937348

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My Heart Lies South
What happens when a thoroughly twentieth-century American lady journalist becomes a Mexican seora in nineteen-thirties provincial Monterrey? She finds herselfsometimes hilariouslycoping with servants, daily food allowances, bargaining, and dramatic Latin emotions. It is like stepping back a hundred years. In this vivid autobiography, Newberry Award-winning author Elizabeth Borton de Trevio brings to life her experiences with the culture and the faith of a civilization so close to the United States, but rarely appreciated or understood. This special young peoples edition presents the humor and the insights of a remarkable woman and her contact with an era which is now past, but not to be forgotten. Ages 14 and up.

Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937515

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Mystery Of The Periodic Table
Author Benjamin Wiker leads the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on the trail of the elements of the Periodic Table as we know them today. He introduces the young reader to people like Von Helmont, Boyle, Stahl, Priestly, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and many others, all incredibly diverse in personality and approach, who have laid the groundwork for a search that is still unfolding to this day. The first part of Wiker's witty and solidly instructive presentation is most suitable to middle school age, while the later chapters are designed for ages 12-13 and up, with a final chapter somewhat more advanced.

Grade Level: 6-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937713

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Nacar The White Deer
A deep friendship springs up between a boy, who had lost his voice and his mother at the same tragic moment, and an ailing albino deer sent from China as a gift to the King of Spain. It is Lalo's task to nurture the sick deer back to health in the mountains of Mexico so that he will be well enough for the sea voyage to Spain. This gentle story of Mexico in 1630 follows young Lalo on his journey back to the Mountain of the Sleeping Lady. The journey and months the deer and the boy spend with Lalo's goats are full both of dangers found in a wild landscape and of charming incidents found in a people brimming with life and faith. As with any friendship there is sorrow as well as joy, and Lalo grows in wisdom and courage as he comes to accept even the uncertainties and difficulties of the trust he has been given.

Grade Level: 4-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937911

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Old Sam: Dakota Trotter
Homesteading in the Dakota Territory of the 1880’s would not have been the same for 10-year-old Johnny Scott and his younger brother, Lee, if they’d had to do it without Old Sam. Years before, a sudden, crippling accident had left Sam, a thoroughbred trotter on his way to championship, in the Scott family pasture—to die or to recover. By default, the Scott family inherits the lamed horse that no one else wants. But Mr. Scott soon discovers Old Sam’s uncanny and invaluable ability to do any task a larger, stronger farm horse can do. His awkward appearance and hidden talents proceed to cause both hilarity and ongoing excitement for these two boys caught up in the fast-changing world of the American Midwest.

Grade Level: 5-12
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350289

Member Price:	$11.95

Once Upon A Time Saints
These stories, the author explains, "are meant to show human and lovable people whose mysterious passion for God led them into preposterous escapades." With an eye on the taste of a child for concrete detail and no apologies for "the embroidery of legend," each tale, in a style akin to fairy-tale, sets forth the unique qualities of a Genevieve, a Felix, a Dorothy, or Comgall16 real saints brought unforgettably to our attention and fond admiration. Ages 5 and up.

Grade Level: K-6
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937157

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Pamela Walks the Dog
This short, fully illustrated narrative takes us into the eternal present of one absorbing series of moments in a child's life. Expect to smile as young Pamela prepares and carries out an activity she has carefully thought through. A book to read aloud, it is written by Christine Marlin with the same attentive understanding of children as the illustrator, who happens to be her own grandmother-Hilda van Stockum.

Grade Level: PreK-4
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937621

Member Price:	$7.95

Pegeen
Young Pegeen was one of the many friends made by Francie in his trip around Ireland. Her Grannie has just now died. Pegeen sees no reason why she may not stay on in the small mountain cottage and fend for herself. However, neighbors, and even good Father Kelly, say her only relative who lives in New York will most likely send for her. Pegeen is heartbroken and Father Kelly himself wonders how this wild young thing will survive such a drastic change. Then Pegeen remembers Francie's promise to come for her in a white ship. With Father Kelly's help she writes to him. Happily, Mrs. O'Sullivan invites Pegeen to stay with them until things are settled with her uncle. No one, except perhaps Francie, is quite prepared for Pegeen's knack of turning the world up on end. Her spirit is a perfect match for his, but two such personalities in one small cottage on Bantry Bay have startling consequencesall of which add up to a lively and unforgettable Irish tale. Ages 8 and up.

Grade Level: 2-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937201

Member Price:	$13.95

Penny For A Hundred
It is 1944 and nine-year-old Clare is old enough to help her family in theMaine potato harvest. This year, with many of the local men off to war, GermanPOWs are brought in to help with the crop. Clare and her family are not sure ofthe strangers, but it soon becomes clear that these men arent so very differentfrom young American soldiers. For Christmas, Clare is determined to recreate atleast one holiday tradition for Peter, a POW who has befriended her. Hergiftand Peters present in returnstrengthen the bonds of an unlikely andgentle friendship.A beautiful picture book illustrated by Mary Beth Owens.

Grade Level: 3-8
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781883937522

Member Price:	$9.95

Peter Treegates War
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Grade Level:
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350210

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Philomena
It has long been the custom for every 12-year-old girl from Philomena's village to go to the city to do "service" as housemaids--before coming home to be married. But Philomena's aunt had gone and never returned. On her deathbed, Babushka instructs her little granddaughter to go to Prague and find her aunt, who must surely be rich now, and do "service" in her household. With the confidence that Babushka is still watching over her from heaven, Philomena travels to Prague, the "city of a hundred spires." Once there, she bounces from one adventure into another as doors open and close and unconventional guidance--from Babushka?--moves her in ever new directions. Though Philomena may grow slightly impatient with Babushka's methods, she is steadily gaining experience, friends--and pets!--until unexpectedly she is able to accomplish her goal.

Kate Seredy, renowned author and artist, brings to life both the characters and their setting of pre-World War I Czechoslovakia in this beautifully illustrated story of irrepressible Philomena.

Grade Level: 3-Adult
Subject Area: Reading and Character Building
ISBN#: 9781932350197

Member Price:	$12.95