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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery. He talked of visiting Heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born.
2) Learning
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Bailey Flanigan and Cody Coleman are not only separated by physical distance, they are also faced with great emotional distance. Bailey grows closer to her dream to be an actress and dancer in New York, while Cody coaches a small high school football team. But neither feels complete without the chance to share their dreams with one another. Can distance truly make the heart grow fonder? Both Bailey and Cody learn significant life lessons in this poignant...
Author
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
With each child you encounter, you have the power and opportunity to build up-- or, tragically, to tear down. You never know when you are making a memory. Stafford has collected stories that show that, if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.
Author
Publisher
Christian Faith Publishing
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever questioned how the Old Testament and New Testament fit together, or even the reason for parts of the Old Testament? This book seeks to show God's magnificent plan conceived before time began to redeem fallen mankind and to recreate a new heaven and a new earth. Throughout the Old Testament, you'll see God at work to bring about a nation through whom His Son, Jesus Christ, would enter our world to redeem all peoples, both Jews and Gentiles....
6) The orchard
Author
Language
English
Description
"For generations, Ellie Hostetler's family has tended their Lancaster County orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. Yet when Evan's draft number is called up in the lottery for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status, despite their Old Order Amish belief in non-resistance. The faraway war that has caused so much turmoil and grief among their Englisher neighbors threatens...
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Female readers of all ages will find a sassy, funny, authentic, and encouraging friend in master word weaver Jami Amerine, as she comes alongside you to share God's overwhelming grace and peace in an inside-out journey to true, life-sustaining rest. In a climate that is steeped in stress and worries, this book offers a priceless opportunity to walk in faith to experience the overwhelming blessing of a mind, spirit, and body at rest. Jami will lead...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Can a person's life really be over at just 19? Sarah challenges this notion when, after flunking out of school, she decides to return to her hometown to try to gain a better understanding of what might be holding her back in life. Home is the hardest place for Sarah to teach herself to stop being a victim. But it is also likely the most important place to do it. She uses her newfound knowledge about herself to pull others out of similar crises, as...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The atmospheric novel set during the Tudor era of a young woman's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue, and danger in a period of great upheaval In 1535, England is hardly a wellspring of gender equality; it is a grim and oppressive age where women--even the privileged few who can read and write--have little independence. In The Butcher's Daughter, it is this milieu that mandates Agnes Peppin, daughter of a simple country...
11) Leaving
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When offered the chance to audition for a Broadway musical in New York City. Bailey Flanigan is unable to pass up what she considers an opportunity of a lifetime. However, her boyfriend Cody is staying behind in Indiana to be close to his mother. Now in a big city all by herself, Bailey must embark on the latest chapter in her young life.
12) Saving Alice
Author
Language
English
Description
"Stephen Whittaker has his whole life planned, but when he loses his true love--Alice--a gradual undetected spiral begins. When everything starts unraveling who will Stephen turn to?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's favorite storytellers comes a heartwarming, inspirational book to help us understand our lives as one continuous, never-ending story.
God has a story for your life…
Debbie Macomber has inspired millions of readers with her inspirational and moving stories for decades. Now with Once Upon a Time, she helps each of us to understand that life is a story, part of a grand narrative that...
Author
Language
English
Description
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Journey Home Brought Equal Parts Healing and Heartache.... Amy Halbert left home twelve years earlier, eager to cast aside the hindrances of small-town life. Her sister, Kathy, remained behind, left to witness the ripples of consequences that followed Amy's departure. When Amy suddenly reappears, her arrival sends Kathy into a maelstrom of emotion. Bitterness and betrayal threaten to consume her as the past is reawakened. But Kathy soon realizes...
Author
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Who Counts? is a creative retelling of three popular parables: the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son. As young readers count to help the characters find what's missing, Who Counts? teaches that every one of us counts in God's eyes and that everyone should feel counted.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wisdom he learned as a monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life"--
Instead of attending his college graduation ceremony, Shetty headed to India to become a monk, to meditate every day for four to eight hours, and devote his life to helping others. After three years, one of his teachers told him that...
20) Take four
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Above the line volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Filmmakers Keith Ellison and Dayne Matthews finally ink a deal with the nation's top young actor. But the actor takes a public fall that threatens his reputation. Now the producers must act as missionaries to save the film, their families, and the young movie star.
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