Youth Biography

Mary Slessor pondered David Livingstone's words, "I don't care where we go as long as we go forward." "I'm not going anywhere, Mary mused. I'm twenty-seven years old. I work in a cotton mill twelve hours a day. God, Mary prayed, send me somewhere,...

Dr. Sloop and her husband began their lifelong dedication to the mountain people when they rode horseback into the remote hill region of North Carolina in 1909. The conditions they encountered were shockingly primitive. The people had neither doctors,...

Product Description   When an industrialist invites God into his business, miracles happen. Despite never having gotten past seventh grade in school and experiencing many failures early on, R.G. LeTourneau rose to eminence in the competitive...

Seven-year-old Nate Saint peered wide-eyed over the cockpit of his older brother Sam's Challenger biplane. The eastern Pennsylvania countryside was spread out neatly below him like a fine tablecloth. Nate was determined to remember every moment of this...

Peter Cook has a good life as a bound boy. Although a youth who has to do hard labor, his is treated like a son by his master. Everything changes the day that Peter discovers that his master has died of the dreaded disease, the black plague. Because...

Product Description: In another exciting missionary adventure, Terri Sawyer tells the story of Amy Carmichael. A missionary to India for 55 years, her captivating testimony of salvation and submission to the life on the mission field will be sure to be...

Charles Haddon Spurgeon is considered by many to be one of God's choicest gifts to His church in Britain, and even throughout the world. From the day of his conversion as a lad of sixteen until the day of his death, he had a single eye to the glory of...

John Wesley was known for his love of children and young people, and they loved him in return. More than once, he was observed to enter a town surrounded by a crowd of children who had run out to meet him. Here is his story, the story of England's...

Product Description Miss Arabella Braithewaite of Switherby knows there is no future for the ten orphans--a remarkable mix of genteel and working class children--she has gathered together these years of England's grim factory growth in the early...

True Stories of Childhood, Adventure, Exploration These are tales about what it means to learn of life and death and trust and companionship, as seen through the eyes of two boys, who from the age of six to twelve roamed deep into the woods and...