Stories they'll remember for a lifetime!
This year your children will read 20 vivid stories that will touch their hearts and challenge them to become young men and women of courage, strength, and honor.
They'll join heros and heroines as they...
- Smuggle 9 million dollars worth of gold past Nazi sentries.
- Paddle a canoe 2,400 miles.
- Walk with Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Arkansas.
- Survive the strange and dangerous Amazon rainforest.
- Escape from a concentration camp.
- Explore the unusual world of the Siam.
- And much more...
Stories they'll remember for a lifetime!
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Katya Ivanova grows up with the Russian royal family.
Anna Leonowens worked at the Siamese palace from 1862 to 1867. She taught English to the king's children. The king had absolute power. Slavery was commonplace.
Betsy Balcombe is a headstrong teenager whose family has a most unusual house guest: Napoleon Bonaparte. An interesting and intimate look at the life of one of the most fascinating figures of our time...
The Balicki children struggle for survival after their mother is killed by the Nazis. A wonderful story of survival against the odds.
National Book Award. Married and promptly widowed at 13, Koly finds herself in the grim position of being cast out by a society that has no place for girls like her. Through friends and her skills, Ko...
Previously published as North to Freedom. A boy escapes from the concentration camp in which he was born. He knows he must travel north, but does not know to what, besides freedom. Moving.
Jacques Chenier finds himself caught up in the anarchy and terror of the French Revolution — and in a struggle to free himself from his own prison of bitterness.
Vol. 1 of Rani Adventures
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An absolutely delightful collection of true stories about an American boy who grew up in the Amazon rainforest.This is included in both our One-Year World History program (WC5 and WC4) and World Histo...
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Teenager Madeleine de Vercheres takes up arms in defense of family, country, and faith in this realistic historical novel set in the 17th century Canadian frontier. A true story full of brave characte...
Nory Ryan's family has lived on the west coast of Ireland for generations. Times are never easy, but this year, a terrible blight attacks the potatoes.
From 1837 to 1838, thousands of Cherokee Indians were forced to march from their homelands in Georgia to live in exile in Arkansas. Fighting bitter cold and blazing heat with little food or water, one...
Nearly a year after World War II broke out in Europe, the Norwegian freighter Bomma reached Baltimore with a cargo of gold bullion worth $9 million.
To 11-year-old Nicholas Young, the tall masts of the massive ship Endeavor looked like an answer to his fervent prayers. On the run from his demanding father, Nick finds adventure beyond his imaginati...
Parvana lives in a bombed-out apartment in Afghanistan. When her father is arrested by the Taliban, Parvana must become the breadwinner for her family. Set against the backdrop of war and religious fa...
When his father has an accident, teenager Pierre La Page is forced to become a voyageur, paddling a canoe 2,400 miles through the French Canadian wilderness.
When a precious ruby is stolen, Seikei is the only witness, and a famous samurai judge needs his help. Soon they are hot on the trail of the ruby — and an unforgettable adventure. A delightful S...
Jancsi, a Hungarian boy in the early 1900s, is overjoyed that his cousin is coming to spend the summer at his father's ranch on the Hungarian plains. Their summer proves more adventurous than he had h...
Joanna Sprague's life is upended when her father dies on the voyage that was to take them to a new life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Poor and alone, 16-year-old Joanna must summon uncommon coura...
Awaiting trial for withholding gold from the king, 17-year-old cartographer Esteban recalls his adventures with a band of ruthless conquistadors. Filled with unforgettable characters, action, romance,...
Sookan lives through the brutal Japanese occupation and escapes North Korea during the Communist takeover. An eye-opening story of the human spirit in an unjust world. Sad, but unforgettable.