Erik and Clarette Torsten are committed to each other and to God. After all, together they survived the race riots back in Tulsa. So surely they can face a little small-town prejudice in Erik's home town. But when a flood drives their small wee...
Tessa Jurgen knows all too well that prejudice and hatred do not vanish overnight. Because of her past the man she loves has been falsely arrested and thrown in jail. Because of her past she cannot forgive herself or her adversaries, and she cannot b...
When Alecia is summoned to Denlin County, Oklahoma, by her recuperating sister, the last place she expects to find herself is back in the classroom. A respected educator in Minneapolis, Alecia agrees to fill a tempory vacancy at the country school, w...
One night gigs in smoky dives have given way to SRO performance in Las Vegas nightclubs. Now her CD has made it on the top ten charts. Roshelle Ramone is a star. Yet deep, hidden memories of her childhood and fellings of guilt for one particular d...
God promised to bless her in all her endeavors, didn't He? And yet things keep going wrong for Bandy. An underhanded employee tries to sabatage Bandy's business. Her stepmother conspires to hurt her. The man Bandy's been dating deserts her for ano...
After her grandfather's death, Kassier reluctantly keeps her promise to him and leaves Wyoming, hoping to rebuild her relationship with her older sister. But life in Virginia with Glorence is a stifling contrast to the wide open spaces if Kassie's fo...
When country girl Tessa Jurgen learns that her bootlegging father has promised her in marriage to a man she doesn't love, she seeks refuge in the supposedly progressive boom town of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The year is 1921. As governess to the children o...
She's determined to get what she wants out of life. When Clarette Vanderpool is on assignment, the competition had better run for cover. An up-an-coming reporter for a New York newspaper, Clarette is now in Tulsa, hot on the trail of the race riot...
In 1924, ten-year-old Addy relies on God's help with her atheistic piano teacher, her best friend's anger over Addy's friendship with a Jewish immigrant, and with the discovery that someone very close has joined the Ku Klux Klan....
History comes alive for eight-to-twelve year olds in this close-up, fun-to-read, multi-generational story of a fictional family spanning three centuries of actual historical events. God's hand is seen at work in people's lives and in the events that ...
In nineteenth-century Cincinnati, fourteen-year-old Tim Allerton finds his anti-slavery views tested when he and his younger sister Pam save the life of a slave baby whose mother has recently been murdered....
History comes alive for eight-to-twelve year olds in this close-up, fun-to-read, multi-generational story of a fictional family spanning three centuries of actual historical events. God's hand is seen at work in people's lives and in the events that ...
History comes alive for eight-to-twelve year olds in this close-up, fun-to-read, multi-generational story of a fictional family spanning three centuries of actual historical events. God's hand is seen at work in people's lives and in the events that ...
In early nineteenth-century Cincinnati, ten-year-old Lucy Lankford eagerly awaits the arrival of her new piano and, along with her recently orphaned cousin Ben Allerton, tries to find out why the school bully is so attached to a worn remnant of flowe...
Gr 3-6-These books offer a good combination of concise text and full-color illustrations that seem a perfect fit for this age group. Lutz describes her subject's boyhood in Scotland when, as a 13-year-old, he set out to sea, eventually settling in Am...
Time Period: 1844 Slavery is a growing issue in the United States of the 1840s. . .but Meg Buehler can only think about drawing. This fictional twelve year old, an aspiring artist, is frustrated when her family, much more concerned with p...
Time Period: 1862 Daria Fisk's father is a doctor who's serving with the Union Army. When her financially-strapped mother must open their home to boarders, a wounded soldier comes to stay. Daria's twin brother, David, is thrilled by the ma...
Time Period: 1939 Ten-year old Mandy McMichael doesn't fit in at her new school in Seattle. She's very smart, but the "in crowd" teases her so much she decides to play dumb to quiet their taunts. Then there's her friendship with a Japanese family-a...
Time Period: 1914 1914 is a tough year for twelve-year-old Maria Schmidt. Ever since the Kaiser started a war in Europe, Maria's German-sounding surname has brought her trouble at school. Even worse, her family's been threatened because of...
Girls are girls wherever they live--and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls "when"ever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8-12-year-old girls: "Elise the Actress: Climax of the Civ...
Girls are girls wherever they live -- and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8"12-year-old girls: history and Christian faith. Featur...
Time Period: 1923 For ten-year-old Carrie Moe, friendship with a Jewish immigrant is perfectly normal. So why are many of her other friends uptight about that? Sadly, in 1924, bigotry is a powerful force in society-so much so, that the whi...
Time Period: 1819 Grace Morgan can't stand the dirty, unkempt boy who harasses her meek and quiet cousin. But Grace soon gets a taste of the bully's hard life of poverty when her hometown of Cincinnati is struck by a serious drought, affec...
Latina Harmen knew she was going to hate Missouri. “There’s nothing in Missouri!” she had told her father when he announced they were to spend the summer there. And now she knew she had been one hundred and ten percent right. Latina had taken f...
The Clash of Cultures: Mozart Meets Heavy Metal! A Concert Violinist and a Heavy Metal Rock Star? Arianna Stefanoff, concert violinist: to her ears, rock music sounds like pots and pans banging together. Reid...
Marcy Hankin's world has been turned upside down ever since Spence Caldwell arrived in her hometown of Andonburg, Oklahoma. Why the state football champ would want to come to an out-of-the-way little town like Andonburg for his senior year is anyone'...
The strangest thing about the nightmares was that Serena never knew the screams were hers until Aunt Loula woke her. In her dream, the screams were always Kris's. Always Kris's. Aunt Loula's husky voice would croon as she patted Serena, "There, th...
""Lori froze. Maritza turned to look at her with perfectly made-up eyes. Her hair was fluffed high on top and cascaded down into long soft curls, as though a professional stylist had just put a finishing touch on it before pushing her on stage."...
Shy, quiet Kirsten Nicholson’s life on the sprawling family ranch in Oklahoma has been one of serene predictability. In fact, her rancher father, Carter, detests change. But changes galore explode when seventeen-year-old Enrique Delaire arrives on ...
It takes a blind man to show Race the way…The moment Race heard the gunshots explode, he knew it was Vince. Somehow he just knew. Throwing the remote across the room, he leaped over the back of the ratty couch and flew down the dimly-lit stairs out...
Question: What's a skateboarder's worst nightmare?Answer: Having no concrete on which to skate!Which is exactly what happens to 15-year-old Jaden Cavell. First, Jaden's dad loses his job at the Detroit auto plant. Then they lose their house. The...