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A Beaver’s Story
This is the story of beavers named Haloka and Akella and their family. Together they build their amazing lodge and struggle through a flood that sweeps it away. Danger from fierce wild animals and human hunters enlivens the wonderfully true-to-nature story of the beaver through all the seasons of the year. 192 pages; paperback.
A Black Bear’s Story
This book takes the reader on a fascinating adventure through the first year and a half of twin bear cubs’ experiences with their mother. She is a wise mother bear, and they learn all about finding food and avoiding danger. This is an eventful and authentic tale of the bears and their forest neighbors – the moose, deer, porcupines, otters, ravens, owls, and many other wild inhabitants of the north woods. 192 pages; paperback; AB Publishing.
A Captain for Hans
The tumult of the Reformation has swept Switzerland, and Zwingli’s Reformed Church has wrested control of several cantons from the Catholic Church. A Captain for Hans brings the world of the persecuted Anabaptists in the 1630s to life. Read how common people like farmers and cheesemakers become willing to forsake all to live the true faith. 224 pages; paper.
A Charge to Keep
Reuben Watson Stone stood shivering in the cold December wind. Even though work was hard to find, his widowed mother and sister depended on him to be the man in charge of the house. He’d do anything to support his family, but would he do what was right? Read this story to understand the struggles this young man faces to provide his family with just the necessities of life. A story for youth and adult readers. 224 pages; paper.
A Drop of Mercy
Historical fiction about a young Mennonite man and his family and friends during the Revolutionary War. Twice he is put to a tremendous test. The first time he failed it. But after he has given his heart to God he has another chance to show mercy. Will he? This book will help you examine the nonresistant doctrine against the backdrop of extremely challenging times. What would you have done? 134 pages; paperback. Proofreader’s note: An instance of graphic violence is noted on p. 45.
A Home for the Heart
Rosalie Penner as told by Betty Friesen. Times are tough. Money is scarce. The beginning of the Great Depression finds the Langemann family looking for jobs. Lizzie, age 16, leaves home to work in Winnipeg as a housemaid. As she struggles to gain experience and learn the strange new ways, she also faces the need of her soul. Step by step God leads her, and she finds rest and a home for her soul. 224 pages; paper.
A Horse Called Willing
Joel lives with his older brother Elam and their widowed mother. Life is not easy without a father. When Lady’s carefree gallop across the pasture ends in disaster, the family needs another horse. That is how a horse named Willing arrived at their farm. 165 pages; paper.
A Kitten Named Birthday
Six-year-old Sarah loves to play with her birthday present, a kitten she named Birthday. Because Sarah is deaf, she cannot hear when Birthday meows. In this story, she learns many things about her kitten and seeks to find the answer to her question, “Does God know sign language?”
A Lantern in the Window
A story about the Underground Railroad that helped many runaway slaves to freedom in the mid-1800s. The Quaker home in the story was one of the stations along the way. Here these unfortunate folk were fed, clothed, and hidden from their pursuers. Often under cover of darkness, they were taken to the next station and eventually to safety and freedom. 116 pages; paper.
A Lion to Guard Us
Amanda Freebold’s father left England three years ago for the new colony of Jamestown in America. But now that her mother has died, Amanda is left to take care of her younger brother and sister all alone. Amanda finally decides to take her siblings to America to find Father. The ocean crossing is long and hard, and the children don’t know whom to trust. But with her father’s little brass lion’s head to guard them, Amanda knows that somehow everything will work out. Ages 9-12. 117 pages; paperback.
A Little House Birthday
The winter is so long, and the girls are getting bored. Then one day Pa told Laura it was her birthday. What a fun day, with gifts from Pa and Ma and Mary! Adapted from Little House in the Big Woods. A book for young children with more illustrations than text. 32 pages; paperback; HarperCollins.
A Peep Behind the Scenes
Rosalie’s family is in the entertainment business, and this story depicts life behind the scenes. The people for whom they perform know nothing of Rosalie’s sick mother, the wretched home, the insufficient food, nor the bitter tears. Then Rosalie learns of the Good Shepherd. 255 pages; paper.
A Place for Peter
This is a sequel to Mountain Born. Peter, a teenager now, struggles to earn his father’s trust as he handles the sugaring up in the sugar bush. He throws himself into the work of the farm and grows in strength and into his father’s trust. Then, he faces the rattlesnakes on the hill. 176 pages; paper.