Youth Biography

Stories of courageous men and women provide examples for students to follow. Selections are centered around five themes: So Many Things to Learn, Contentment, Courage, In All Thy Ways, and Responsibility. Illustrated with colorful paintings. Calls to...

Readers today are still fascinated by "Nat," an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor's world - Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat...

Product Description Charles Spurgeon was a simple country lad who went on to become one of the best known preachers in London, Europe and the world. Caught in a snowstorm one day when he was a teenager, he crept into the back of a church and the...

Natasha's father is a leader in the underground church of the Soviet Union. When Georgi Vins is forced to spend time in hiding and in prison, Natasha looks to her beloved grandmother for spiritual guidance, but in her teens Natasha reaches a spiritual...

Product Description This book is the true life story of one of the most amazing Christian women of the 20th century, Corrie ten Boom. Jean Watson tells us about the hardships and punishment she endured at the Nazi concentration camp, and about her...

Product Description Learn about the life of David Brainerd, from his teenage years on a farm; his expulsion from Yale; to his preaching on the frontier to his death in his late twenties. This early American missionary felt compelled to share the...

Journey alongside one of Christianity’s most courageous pioneers in Vance Christie’s biography for pre–teens. Born into humble beginnings in Scotland in 1813, Livingstone’s faith and passion for exploration shaped his...

The life of David Livingstone clearly testifies to the fact that God can change the direction of history through the life of just one soul. Well over one hundred years have passed since this famous missionary to Africa departed this earth. Read this...

Product Description Originally published in 1834, this autobiography was actucally written by Davy Crocket himself. And so, the flavor of the times and the place come through. It's more like a tall tale of the life of the frontiersman than it is a true...

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is one of the heroes of World War 2. From a plot to assassinate Hitler, to eventually being imprisoned and martyred, this is a gritty real-life story of perseverance. Today he is remembered for his writings including his letters from...