Youth Literature

In scene after memorable scene of Sarah Orne Jewett's fictional masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs, the Maine-born author recorded what she felt were the rapidly disappearing traditions,...

In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for their family. "Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble," her mother had said, but Sarah found that it was...

Michael Morpurgo's The Day the World Stopped Turning is a middle-grade novel about an extraordinary boy who sees the world differently. In the unique landscape of the Camargue (France) during World...

Ever since he can remember, Robin, son of Sir John de Bureford, has been told what is expected of him as the son of a nobleman: he must learn the ways of knighthood. But Robin's destiny is changed in...

Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what side you’re on and what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death. In the You Choose Books set,...

Recognized today as the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) revealed his genius in tales of death, terror, evil, and perversity. Highly skilled in...

In the 1930s, Americans faced one of the biggest crises ever to hit the country. During the Great Depression, the stock market crash caused banks to close and many companies to go out of business...

Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied...

A Chosen Books commemorative edition of Corrie ten Boom's wondrous story. Love overcomes inhumanity in the concentration camp and heals lives in the war's aftermath. Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch...

Willow Valley Kids, Book 2 An old abandoned estate, a wandering stranger, and a frightening sound in the woods lead the Willow Valley kids ever deeper into a mystery that turns an ordinary summer...

Fourteen-year-old Hans and his younger sister Gretchen trust in the Lord as they help Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg save Jews from the Nazis in Budapest, Hungary, during the closing days of World...

Description One cloudy afternoon a big whirlwind came through the meadow. The whirlwind lifted the tumbleweed into the air and whirled him around and around and around. What fun! Up and up and up he...