My Cousin Tamar Lives in Israel (Hardcover)
by Michelle Shapiro Abraham
Curiosity leads Mira across the river, to an "enemy" village where people have beliefs that are strange to her. But when one of these strangers helps her get home, Mira has big questions about what's true and asks a wise elder for help. From the story he tells her, she discovers miraculous things about herself, about belief and about all life on Earth. This inspiring story is perfect for readers aged 8 and up.
The Berenstain Bears God Shows the Way (I Can Read! / Berenstain Bears / Living Lights)
by Stan and Jan Berenstain w/ Mike Berenstain
Now in a convenient 3 stories in one collection, young readers will learn from the Berenstain Bears just how important it is to serve and love one another. Written in level one of the I Can Read standards, this bind-up of stories from the Berenstain Bears Living Lights I Can Read series is sure to please young, emergent readers as well as parents and grandparents looking for good quality reading that will help practice early reading skills as well as teach lessons about serving and caring for ot...
Lucy Finds Her Way (Faithgirlz / A Lucy Novel, v. 4)
by Nancy N. Rue
Aunt Karen is taking over Lucy's life-what's left of it. Lucy is a feisty, precocious tomboy who questions everything-even God. It's not hard to see why: a horrible accident killed her mother and blinded her father, turning her life upside down. It will take a strong but gentle housekeeper-who insists on Bible study along with homework-to show Lucy that there are many ways to become the woman God intends her to be. Lucy is faced with her toughest obstacles yet in her quest to find out just wha...
It's Christmas time all across America and Jenny is feeling left out. Her secular parents, born to different faiths that they no longer observe, don't believe in celebrating Christmas. She never seemed to mind before, but this year it bothers her--maybe because they're home and not on the Florida coast where they usually go at this time of the year to avoid the holiday hoopla. All around her the neighbors have decorated their houses with festive lights, while her house by contrast looks drab and...
A young girl finds the magic, power, and history of wearing a bindi for the first time, in this moving and lyrical picture book debut from Gita Varadarajan. There in the mirror, I see a shining star. My mother’s joy, my father’s pride. And then I see something else: I see me. Divya is scared to put on the bindi for the first time. What if she gets made fun of? What will it feel like? But Amma is there to reassure her. Togeth...
Acceptance, understanding, and hope shine through in this heartfelt coming of age story by Eleven and Holding author Mary Penney, perfect for fans of Lindsey Stoddard and Lisa Graff. After a lifetime of being homeschooled, Ham Hudson is hoping that a new year in a new school will help make him a whole new Ham. Instead, he’s saddled with an archnemesis to avoid, a confusing and exhausting social sphere to navigate, and a whole host of insecurities to add to his old ones. But then Ham meets Mica...
A perfect baby shower gift from a bestselling and beloved artist known for capturing the special moments of family life. Where did you get those eyes so blue? What makes the light in them sparkle and spin? What makes your forehead so smooth and high? The questions new parents ask as they look in amazement on their just-born child are celebrated and fancifully answered in this inspirational poem, brought for the first time to picture-book life. George MacDonald's lovely ode to newborn babie...
In this charming and witty Passover story about kindness, community, tradition, and forgiveness, a little mouse disrupts a town's preparations for the holiday when it steals a piece of leavened bread—or chometz—just as all the houses have been swept clean in time for the holiday. It's the morning before the start of Passover, and all the villagers have swept their homes clean of leavened bread, in keeping with the traditions of the holiday. Suddenly, a small mouse steals a piece of bread and te...
In the sixth book of the Keystone Stables series, perfect for girls who love horses and horse fiction, foster child Skye learns the true meaning of love when one of the returning campers with Downs Syndrome is insistent she is his girlfriend, and won't leave her-or her beloved horse, Champ-alone. Skye knows she should be kind to Joey Klingerman, and that he's probably the most loving person she's ever met, but his clinginess and insistence he and Skye are dating has become too much. Not only ar...
The Berenstain Bears Say Their Prayers (Berenstain Bears/Living Lights: A Faith Story)
by Mike Berenstain
Alec is excited about being elected 5th grade class president and joining the track team, but when his grandmother's cancer gets worse, everything falls apart until he volunteers with a Special Olympics team and realizes that if disabled children can cope, so can he.
Ten-year-old Alec misses his mother when she decides to leave the family behind in Georgia while she goes to Los Angeles to work on a television show, is bullied when his older cousin moves in with his family, and gets picked on at school, but his troubles are eased when he decides to turn them over to God.
When her father's decision to move the whole family sends everyone in an uproar, triplet Yasmin continues to depend on God to help her remain calm and find peace in the midst of this new storm.
Five years after taking Bree and her brother Devin from Ireland to serve as tenth century Viking slaves, Mikkel decides whether to keep his promise to return the pair to their home and restore their freedom.