Bethlehem Books
2014
Literature to feed the
imagination!
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Good Old
Archibald
Ethelyn Parkinson
Fear in the Forest
Cateau de Leeuw
BETHLEHEM BOOKS, as many of you know, is a small, home-grown
publishing company dedicated to restoring to children and families a treasury
of wholesome, character-building literature. More than a business, our
work springs from the heart of the Bethlehem Community of Benedictine
Oblates, a lay group of families and single people which began in 1971. Years of
educating our children at home had made us aware of the wealth of wonderful
children’s books written in the first three-quarters of the twentieth century—
conscious also that many of these titles were fast disappearing from library
shelves. Happily, this awareness was able to take a concrete form. In 1992,
Bethlehem Books, with its aim to reprint “Literature to Feed the Imagination,”
came into being in Vancouver, Washington.
Now, more than twenty years later, amidst all the ups and downs of
family and community life, we are pleased to be yet providing good literature
for children—of all ages! These days, we frequently meet young adults who
enthusiastically respond to a display of Bethlehem Books by exclaiming, “I
grew up on these books!” Some of these folks are in the process of building a
Bethlehem Books library for their own young families. Many things continue
to change in the world around us, but the love of a good story—to read alone
or aloud to others— thankfully endures.
Since our goal has always been to get out as much good family reading
as we could afford, several years ago we began exploring the world of digital
books. We worked first to bring out eVersions, electronic editions of titles
we already had in print (still an ongoing process). Next, we developed a list
of eStacks titles, e-books available as digital-only versions, which can be
purchased, for the most part, exclusively on our website. A number of brandnew eStacks stories are in the works, to be added to the collection of more
than thirty currently offered. Though we ourselves like best to hold and
turn the pages of a print book, we have been pleased to offer our readers—
especially our international ones—more hours of reading enjoyment through
the electronic format.
A few of our eStacks titles are about to change status from being digitalonly to becoming available as print books. Good Old Archibald by Ethelyn
Parkinson and Fear in the Forest by Cateau de Leeuw will shortly be off to
the printers. Judith Lankester by Marjorie Hill Allee and On the Edge of the
Fjord by Alta Halverson Seymour will be next. The Cottage at Bantry Bay
by Hilda van Stockum is also about to rejoin its companions (Francie on the
Run and Pegeen) as a print book. These titles will all, of course, continue to
be found in the electronic format, though now as Bethlehem Books eVersions.
Please let us know if you have a favorite eStacks title that you’d like to see in
print book form.
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow was the first of the more than
100 print books we have published over the years (many of which are still in
print). It is still going strong, and is now joined by our newest offering: Door
to the North by Elizabeth Coatsworth, another tale which begins in the cold
Nordic lands.
Happy reading to our friends and readers from all of us at Bethlehem Books!
Print Books & eStacks List
A Day on Skates 21
Alfred of Wessex 22
A Long Way from Welcome 13
Alvin Fernald, Foreign Trader 13
Alvin for Mayor 22
Alvin’s Secret Code 22
Angel and Dragon 22
Archimedes and the Door of Science 6
Around the Year Once Upon a Time Saints 20
Arrow Messenger 22
Augustine Came to Kent 7
Away Goes Sally 16
Backfield Twins 22
Beorn the Proud 8
Beowulf the Warrior 7
Between the Forest and the Hills 14
Beyond the Desert Gate 7
Big John’s Secret 9
Big League Busher 22
The Black Tiger 22
Canadian Summer 17
Copper Country Adventure 22
The Cottage at Bantry Bay 22
Crazy Legs McBain 22
The Crystal Snowstorm 22
Debbie Barnes, Trader 22
Door to the North 9
Downright Dencey 14
The Drover’s Road Collection 15
Enemy Brothers 22
The Fair American 16
Fear in the Forest 4
Fighting Coach 22
First Farm in the Valley 18
Five Bushel Farm 16
Flight into Spring 15
Following the Phoenix 13
For Texas and Freedom 22
Francie on the Run 17
Friendly Gables 17
The Frosty Filly 22
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine 7
Galewood Crossing 22
Gid Granger 22
That Girl of Pierre’s 15
God King 6
The Golden Hawks of Genghis Khan 22
Good Old Archibald 4
Happy Little Family 19
Happy Times in Noisy Village 21
Herodotus and the Road to History 6
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston 8
Hittite Warrior 6
The Ides of April 6
If All the Swords In England 9
Jamberoo Road 11
John Treegate’s Musket 10
Judith Lankester 5
The Kitchen Madonna 21
The Lark in the Morn 14
The Locked Crowns 22
Long Rifle Vanguard 22
The Lost Wagon 22
Madeleine Takes Command 10
Madeleine Takes Command, Audio CDs 24
The Miracle of Saint Nicholas 21
The Mitchells: Five For Victory 17
More Once Upon a Time Saints 20
My Heart Lies South 20
The Mystery of the Periodic Table 21
Mystery of the Hidden Face 22
Nacar, the White Deer 9
Old Sam, Dakota Trotter 11
Old Sam Dakota Trotter, Audio CDs 24
Once Upon a Time Saints 20
One Week of Danger 23
On the Edge of the Fjord 5
Pegeen 17
Peter Treegate’s War 10
Philomena 12
Polly Rides West 23
Prisoners in the Snow 23
The Ranch of the Golden Flowers 23
The Reb and the Redcoats 10
Red Dog Center 23
Red Falcons of Trémoine 8
Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal 9
The Rose and Crown 23
The Rose Round 15
Saints and Heroes 20
The Saving Name of God the Son 21
Schoolhouse in the Woods 19
Schoolroom in the Parlor 19
Sea Captain from Salem 10
The Secret Cache 23
Secret Agents Four 23
Secret of the Shetlands 23
Sicilian Mystery 23
The Small War of Sergeant Donkey 12
Son of Charlemagne 8
Spring Tide 7
Stairstep Farm 18
The Story of Grettir the Strong 23
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow 8
The Strange Intruder 13
The Stubborn Mare 23
The Switherby Pilgrims 11
They Loved to Laugh 14
Towards Oregon 23
Treegate’s Raiders 10
Under a Changing Moon 15
Up and Down the River 19
Victory on the Walls 6
The Weka-Feather Cloak 14
The White Horse 16
The Wide Horizon 11
Willow Wind Farm 18
Windigo 23
Winding Valley Farm 18
The Winged Watchman 12
The Winged Watchman, Audio CDs 24
The Wonderful Day 16
Year of the Black Pony 12
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Projected Print Books for 2014!
Good Old
Archibald
Good Old
Archibald
Fear in the Forest
by Ethelyn M.
Parkinson
Illustrated by
Mary Stevens
In this amusing
story—that is both
slightly vintage and
completely timeless— good old
Ethelyn Parkinson
Ralph Jackson has
deserted Brookfield
School (his family
has had to move to another city) just four weeks
before the “picnic day” baseball game against the
Lawson Lions. His buddies Trent, Wilmer and
Harley are not happy, but they get only gleeful
heckling, rather than sympathy from classmates
Wonderful Wanda, Gorgeous Glenora and Susie
Scott. The dismal situation is not improved by
the arrival of a new boy, Archibald Brewster,
who wears a suit and tie and is taken to and from
school by a chauffeur—he is NOT the answer to
the Brookfield Bumblebees’ prayers. However,
the boys, especially Trent, cannot get rid of Archibald—he is there every time they turn around.
He seems to be particularly captivated by Trent’s
offbeat and lovable family made up of dad, mom
and seven sons. So begin four rather harrowing
weeks in which the Brookfield Bumblebees have
the opportunity to discover that things are truly
not always what they seem to be. Written by an
accomplished storyteller, this touching and humorous tale is a great family read-aloud.
125-P ... 145 pp, Quality Softcover, $14.95
America, 1950’s • Ages 9-up, RL3.3
Read Aloud Interest 5-up
eStack Available
Fear in the
Forest
by Cateau de
Leeuw
Illustrated
by Leonard
Vosburgh
There was only one
way to make Ohio
territory safe for the
settlers, and that was
Cateau de Leeuw
to defeat the Indians.
In the early 1790’s,
both General Harmar
and General St. Clair’s troops had tried and tragically failed, and now fear was running rampant
along the Ohio Territory frontier. This nightmare
anxiety was bigger than life for twelve-year-old
Daniel, who had lost his father in an Indian raid.
Now, three years later, finding himself an unwanted burden to the family who had taken him
in, a visit from a stranger leads Daniel to make
a man-sized decision. Major General Anthony
Wayne—Mad Anthony—hopes to succeed where
the others had not, and to do this he has instituted a series of forts. It takes all Daniel’s courage
to leave his foster family in hopes of getting work
with one of the pack-horse brigades, the supply life-lines for the forts and for the U.S. troops
defending the settlers. Hired by packer Josiah
Gregg, Daniel is befriended by the chief’s fourteen-year-old son, Amos, and later, by the whole
Gregg family. Despite his brave encounters with
bears, ruffians, and the dangers faced daily by the
supply train, Daniel’s fear still plagues him. Is he
a coward? What will it take to have that question
settled once and for all?
$14.95
America, 1790’s • Ages 9-up, RL5.4
Read Aloud Interest 7-up
eStack Now Available
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Projected Print Books for 2014!
Judith Lankester
Judith
Lankester
On the Edge of the Fjord
by Marjorie Hill
Allee
Illustrated by
Hattie Longstreet
Price
Judith Lankester,
15 years old, and
raised in the luxury
of her grandmother’s
Marjorie Hill Allee
Virginia plantation,
has made the arduous journey with her
widowed mother and her seven sisters to the
home of her grandparents in Indiana. Though
her mother, Charity, had married away from the
Quaker lifestyle, she had always maintained her
faith and convictions. After her husband’s death,
she freed his slaves, settled them on their own
land and used the last of the family’s resources
to travel to Indiana. Welcomed in Grandfather
Halloway’s home, Charity hopes to set up her
loom and begin weaving cloth to sell. The older
girls—all except for Judith—also wish to help.
The rawness of the pioneer dwellings and way of
life offend Judith’s love of beauty and refinement.
She wants to return to the silk and elegance of
her grandmother’s home. Except for her gift with
young children and skill in fine sewing, she has
nothing to contribute to their new way of life. At
Grandfather Halloway’s suggestion, she goes to
live with the Huff family to help out, but also to
learn practical household skills. It is in this kindly
crucible that Judith must come to terms with
herself, with her family’s Quaker faith and convictions—especially on the subject of slavery—
and of where, and with whom, she will spend her
future years. This warm, believable tale about
the meaning of freedom and its responsibility is
vividly set against the background of social and
industrial change in the 1840’s—in the period
leading up to the American Civil War.
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On the
Edge of
the Fjord
by Alta
Halverson
Seymour
No one dreamed
that the Nazis would
ever bother Valcos,
the sleepy little
Norwegian fishing
Alta Halverson Seymour
village on the edge
of the deep fjord.
However, its happy,
carefree life ended when Nazi officers quartered
themselves in the Engeland home with the intention of securing Captain Engeland’s influential
help. Petra Engeland, only fourteen, had good
reason then to transfer her resourcefulness in
mischief to grimmer tasks involving life or death,
and her first undertaking was to warn her father,
still away with the larger of the fishing boats, of
the trap awaiting him. Against a background of
mountains, caves and fjords, Petra and her impetuous brother Martin—with numerous other
Norwegians, young and old—take part in daring
schemes right under the noses of the occupying
forces. Published before WWII was at an end,
this tale retains its sense of immediacy and courage in the face of great adversity.
$14.95
America, 1840’s • Ages 11-up, RL5.7
Read Aloud Interest 8-up
eStack Now Available
1-800-757-6837 Mon-Fri Central
$14.95
Norway, WWII • Ages 10-up, RL5.6
Read Aloud Interest 8-up
eStack Now Available
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Living History 1200 b.c.-60 a.d.
Hittite Warrior
by Joanne Williamson
Judea has always been the crossroads and
battlefield of contending nations. It is no
less so in this biblical time of the Judges.
Uriah Tarhund’s Hittite home is destroyed by
invading Greeks. His dying father tells him
to go south to seek a Canaanite named Sisera. “He will help
you. For my sake. . . .” When the Canaanites are defeated,
the young Hittite has the opportunity to come to peace with
himself, the Hebrew people and their God.
Core Knowledge, Accelerated Reader
35-P ... 237 pp, Quality Softcover, $14.95
Judea, 1200 B.C. • Ages 10-up, RL5.4
Herodotus and the
Road to History
By Jeanne Bendick
Illustrated by the Author
Herodotus and the Road to History, written in
the first person, details the investigative journeys of Herodotus as he takes ship from Greece and voyages
to the limits of his own ancient world. His persistence, in the
self-appointed task of recording his discoveries as “histories”,
means that today we can still follow his expeditions.
99-P ... 78 pp, Quality Softcover, $13.95
Greece, 460 B.C. • Ages 10-up, RL7.4
Archimedes and the
Door of Science
by Jeanne Bendick
Illustrated by the Author
Through text and pictures, the ancient Greek
mathematician who enriched mathematics
and all branches of science is brought to life. Against the
backdrop of Archimedes’ life and culture, the author discusses the man’s work, his discoveries and the knowledge later
based upon it.
Science, Core Knowledge, Accelerated Reader
12-P ... 135 pp, Sewn Softcover, $14.95
Greece, 200 B.C. • Ages 10-up, RL5
eVersion Available
God King: A Story
in the Days of King
Hezekiah
by Joanne Williamson
Prince Taharka, a minor royal son, succeeds
unexpectedly to the throne of a “divine” rulership. It’s not long, however, before a treacherous plot pushes
him into sudden exile and into the hands of Amos, an emissary of King Hezekiah seeking help against the Assyrians.
When his true identity is uncovered, he must choose with
whom he will fight—the mighty Assyrian, promising alliance
or Hezekiah, the Jew who trusts in Yahweh.
64-P ... 206 pp, Quality Softcover, $14.95
Egypt/Judea, 700 B.C. • Ages 10-up, RL4.3
Victory on the Walls:
A Story of Nehemiah
by Frieda Clark Hyman
Thirteen-year-old Bani, though born in Jerusalem, has lived from infancy with his uncle
in beautiful Susa. Now, his Uncle Nehemiah
wants to leave his position of high honor as Cupbearer to the
King to return to Jerusalem, a city in ruins and beset by every
kind of trouble! Bani himself is given an unexpected part to
play, the outcome of which is to forever change his life.
Core Knowledge
80-P ... 182 pp, Quality Softcover, $13.95
Judea, 445 B.C. • Ages 10-up, RL5.0
The Ides of April
by Mary Ray
Hylas is a young Greek slave in the household of Caius Pomponius, a Roman Senator
involved in political schemes. When the
senator is found mysteriously murdered, the
household slaves (including Hylas and his mother) fall under
suspicion. Hylas escapes capture long enough to enlist the aid
of a young tribune, Camillus Rufus. The desperate attempt to
unravel the threads of the political intrigue carries Camillus
into the very presence of Nero and brings Hylas into contact
with the new secret sect of Christians. Prequel to Beyond the
Desert Gate.
40-P ... 165 pp, Quality Softcover, $13.95
Rome, 60 A.D. • Ages 14-up, RL7.0
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Living History 70-597
Beyond the Desert
Gate
by Mary Ray
Apollodorus takes a risk and rescues a man
whom a Roman patrol has left to die in the
desert. When Apollodorus is killed by robbers, his three sons are left almost penniless and must each
find a way for themselves. Philo, the youngest, is befriended
by Xenos, the man saved from the desert, who has lost his
memory. From him the boy learns the art of the scribe, and
together they try to find their identity—one from the past,
the other for the future. Sequel to The Ides of April.
50-P ... 167 pp, Quality Softcover, $13.95
Palestine, 70 • Ages 14-up, RL5.5
eVersion Available
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Galen and the Gateway to Medicine
by Jeanne Bendick
Illustrated by the Author
We know about Hippocrates, but we owe
nearly as much to Galen, a physician born in
129 A.D. at the height of the Roman Empire. Galen’s acute
diagnoses of patients, botanical wisdom, and studies of
physiology were recorded in numerous books, handed down
through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Not least, Galen
passed on the medical tradition of respect for life.
Science, Core Knowledge, Accelerated Reader
66-P ... 124 pp, Sewn Softcover, $14.95
Rome, 129 • Ages 10-up, RL8
Spring Tide
by Mary Ray
Two friends, Julius and Con, meet and befriend Brychan, a young Christian priest, who
is later captured and imprisoned at the base
camp of the legion. Torn between obedience
to parental orders and the demands of friendship, the boys resolve to help him escape. Aided by Aaron
the Hebrew, a Roman soldier who has secretly converted to
Christianity after witnessing the martyrdom of St. Alban
seven years earlier, they set out to rescue Brychan—but with
unexpectedly grave consequences.
111-P ... 200 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
England, 312 • Ages 14-up, RL4.8
eVersion Available
Beowulf the Warrior
by Ian Serraillier
Illustrated by Severin
Ian Serraillier has retold in rhythmic verse
the story of the hero Beowulf and his three
memorable exploits—first, his rescuing of
Hrothgar the Dane from the ravages of monstrous Grendel;
next, his victory over Grendel’s strange and horrible mother;
and finally, in Beowulf’s old age, his saving of his own people,
the Geats, from the horrors of a dragon—at the cost of his
life.
Accelerated Reader, Core Knowledge
03-P ... 48 pp, Sewn Softcover, $10.95
Denmark, 500’s • Ages 9-up, RL7.3
Augustine Came to
Kent
by Barbara Willard
Illustrated by Mary Beth Owens
Pope Gregory is sending some of his monks,
led by Fr. Augustine, to re-evangelize England. Wolf, born there but raised in Rome, accompanies his
father, who goes as a guide and interpreter. Though the King
of Kent’s wife is a Christian, the missionaries do not know
whether they will be welcomed, tolerated or martyred.
Core Knowledge
31-P ... 179 pp, Sewn Softcover, $12.95
Britain, 597 • Ages 10-up, RL5
eVersion Available
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Living History 780-1171
Son of Charlemagne
by Barbara Willard
Illustrated by Emil Weiss
King Charles of the Franks is crossing the
Alps with his family and court on a journey
to meet with Pope Hadrian. He speaks to his
young son Carl: “When we come to Rome you will know that
I am naming you my heir. One day you will rule over all my
lands.” But the King already had an heir, Pepin the Hunchback, mockingly called Gobbo. Was he to be dispossessed?
Core Knowledge
30-P ... 183 pp, Sewn Softcover, $14.95
France, 780’s • Ages 10-up, RL5.6
eVersion Available
Beorn the Proud
by Madeleine Polland
Illustrated by Joan Coppa
Drennen
“Amid the battles and shipwrecks and deeds
of bravery and treachery, twelve-year-old Beorn learns Christian humility from his young captive, Ness, the daughter of
an Irish chieftain. Youngsters will enjoy the adventure, while
their parents appreciate the realism.”
-Robert T. Reilly, author of Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal.
Core Knowledge
08-P ... 185 pp, Sewn Softcover, $14.95
Ireland/Denmark, 800’s • Ages 10-up, RL5.1
The Story of Rolf and
the Viking Bow
by Allen French
Hiarandi, at the urging of his wife, lights a
signal fire on a dangerous point of his land,
thereby challenging the accepted custom
which places lucrative salvage at higher value than the saving
of life. However, the life that is saved that night causes his
own death and the unjust outlawing of his son Rolf.
01-P ... 244 pp, Sewn Softcover, $15.95
Iceland, 1000 • Ages 10-up, RL4.7
eVersion Available
Red Falcons of
Trémoine
by Hendry Peart
Illustrated by Maurice Brevannes
Leo is an orphan being raised in an abbey.
Abbot Michael alone knows Leo’s story and
family line and, when the heir to the house of Wardlock is
killed in the Crusades, he sets in motion events in which Leo
finds he is not only heir to Wardlock, but also to its rival!
Core Knowledge, Accelerated Reader
94-P ... 239 pp, Quality Softcover, $13.95
England, 1100’s • Ages 10-up, RL5.8
eVersion Available
The Hidden Treasure
of Glaston
by Eleanore M. Jewett
Illustrated by Frederick Chapman.
Amidst great mystery, Hugh is left in the care of Glastonbury
Abbey by his father who must flee England. Hugh and his
friends uncover a treasure trove and with it a deeper mystery
of the sort that could only occur in Glastonbury.
Core Knowledge, Accelerated Reader
44-P ... 340 pp, Quality Softcover, $15.95
England, 1171 • Ages 10-up, RL6.5
eVersion Available
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Living History 1218-1630
Big John’s Secret
By Eleanore M. Jewett
Illustrated by Frederick T.
Chapman
Mystery surrounds the young peasant boy
known as Big John. His life is one day changed
when a knight says, in passing, “You remind me of someone—someone I once knew and loved.” In the next years
John’s unusual size and strength and the knowledge he has
gained of letters and of the art of healing earn him a place as
page to an earl organizing the 5th Crusade. In the Holy Land,
John searches for a father he hopes is living still.
Core Knowledge
78-P ... 203 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
England, Holy Land, 1218 • Ages 10-up, RL5.1
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If All the Swords In
England
by Barbara Willard
Illustrated by Robert M. Sax
Young Simon, recently and tragically orphaned, becomes a scribe in the following of
the exiled Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The
uncertainty of the tumultuous years leading to the infamous
cathedral slaying is heightened by Simon’s separation from
his twin Edmund, who is in the service of King Henry II.
Core Knowledge
45-P ... 181 pp, Quality Softcover, $14.95
England, 1164-1170 • Ages 10-up, RL5.9
eVersion Available
Door to the North
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
In a desperate bid to redeem his family’s
honor, young Olav joins an expedition to
Greenland sent out by King Magnus, ruler
of Christian Scandinavia. Instigated by dark
rumors of pagan worship and the mysterious
disappearance of an entire settlement, the journey carries
Olav and his forty companions far beyond Greenland into
danger, unexpected experiences and a surprising finale.
Historical fiction at its best!
149-P ... 256 pp, Quality Softcover, $15.95
North America, 1360’s • Ages 11-up, RL5.7
Read Aloud Interest 10-up
Red Hugh, Prince of
Donegal
by Robert T. Reilly
Red Hugh was a true-life champion for Irish
liberty from Queen Elizabeth’s constricting
reign. Hugh’s capture, imprisonment, and
escape from the Dublin Castle; his triumph over a blizzard
and frostbite; his dramatic rescue of his family’s castle; his
conflict with the evil Captain Leeds; and his inexhaustible
love for Ireland make this a wonderful read-aloud book for
the entire family.
Core Knowledge
22-P ... 202 pp, Sewn Softcover, $14.95
Ireland, 1580’s • Ages 10-up, RL6.1
eVersion Available
Nacar, the White
Deer: A Story of Old
Mexico
by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
A deep friendship springs up between a boy
and an ailing albino deer sent from the Philippines as a gift to the King of Spain. It is Lalo’s task to nurture
the sick deer back to health in the mountains of Mexico. The
months that the deer spends with Lalo and his goats are full
both of dangers faced in a wild landscape and of charming
incidents found in a people brimming with life and faith.
Later, the deer and the boy share a journey and a miracle.
Core Knowledge
79-P ... 125 pp, Quality Softcover, $10.95
Mexico, 1630 • Ages 9-up, RL7.1
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Living History 1692-1780
Madeleine Takes
Command
by Ethel C. Brill
Illustrated by Bruce Adams
Madeleine’s story is based on a true account
of colonial Canada. Harassed by Iroquois, the family’s fort
must keep a continual guard. Fourteen-year-old Madeleine is
left alone with two younger brothers and few others when the
Indians attack. With the stalwart support of her brothers and
an old retainer, Madeleine exercises youthful and courageous
leadership.
17-P ... 202 pp, Sewn Softcover, $13.95
Canada, 1692 • Ages 10-up, RL6
Audio Book Available, See Back Cover
Peter Treegate’s War
by Leonard Wibberley
John Treegate’s
Musket
by Leonard Wibberley
John’s decision to go to England to appeal
to the government means leaving his son
Peter on his own, apprenticed to one of John’s
friends. Peter’s new master is not severe, but the senior apprentice is a vicious bully and worse. A chain of events leads
to trouble for Peter—involving murder, shipwreck, loss of
memory—before finally he is reunited with his father. First
book in Treegate Series.
Core Knowledge, Accelerated Reader
95-P ... 173 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Colonial America, 1769 • Ages 14-up, RL6.8
eVersion Available
Sea Captain from
Salem
by Leonard Wibberley
Peter’s father, John Treegate, and his foster
father, the Maclaren of Spey, are jealous and
distrustful of each other and are making
seemingly impossible and irreconcilable demands of Peter. In the resultant struggle, Peter
strives to be true to both men while also trying to discern
and be faithful to his own calling. This relational dilemma is
powerfully played out in the midst of the slow, chaotic course
of the war with the Redcoats; a war in which the reader is
shown the cruelty and the decency to be found on both sides.
Second book in Treegate Series.
The struggling new nation’s need for help
sends Benjamin Franklin to Paris to seek an
alliance with France. How can he convince
the French that the American battle is worth joining? The
surprising answer to his dilemma appears in the unlikely
and unforgettable form of a fisherman named Peace of God
Manly. Franklin puts Peace of God in command of the sloop
of war Hornet with orders to harass British ships in their own
waters. Third book in Treegate Series.
100-P ... 134 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
America, 1770’s • Ages 14-up, RL6.2
108-P ... 167 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
France, 1770’s • Ages 14-up, RL7.2
Treegate’s Raiders
by Leonard Wibberley
For the sake of bringing the long-drawnout American War for Independence to a
close, Peter Treegate endeavors to do the
impossible. It is his task to bring together an
alliance—albeit a temporary one—between
feuding Scottish clans now settled in the Carolina hills. The
end result is Treegate’s Raiders, a fierce fighting force who
take part in two of the small, but crucial battles that help to
defeat the British—King’s Mountain and Cowpens. Fourth
book in Treegate Series.
110-P... 167 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
America, 1770’s • Ages 14-up, RL6.2
The Reb and the
Redcoats
by Constance Savery
A view of the Revolutionary War is shown
through a British family to whom a young
American prisoner-of-war has been entrusted. The children—the “redcoats”—forge a
friendship with the “Reb,” and inadvertently get pulled along
in his fierce determination to escape. Their uncle, embittered
by the unjust death of a friend fighting in America, makes
things as difficult as possible for the young rebel—until
something unexpected is learned. A truce is joined—one
that cannot quite quell the Reb’s intense desire to escape and
rejoin his comrades across the sea.
Core Knowledge
39-P ... 203 pp, Quality Softcover, $14.95
England, 1780’s • Ages 10-up, RL6.2
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Living History 1820-1890
The Switherby
Pilgrims: A Tale of
the Australian Bush
by Eleanor Spence
Miss Arabella Braithewaite of Switherby
knows there is no future in England for “her”
ten orphans—a remarkable mix of genteel and working class
children. Thus, one day, the townsfolk gather to watch as a
line of departing “pilgrims,” led by the fearless “Missabella,”
set off to Australia to take up a land grant. On a new continent, after a daunting voyage, the challenges really begin.
Prequel to Jamberoo Road.
83-P ... 195 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Australia, 1820’s • Ages 10-up, RL7.6
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Jamberoo Road
by Eleanor Spence
Missabella is determined to provide for the
future of her orphans according to each
one’s character. Not an easy task, with such a
varied, ragtag, yet lovable set of personalities
and backgrounds as they represent. But what
will satisfy clever, independent Cassie, who has ambitions
to be a writer? The “Jamberoo Road” leads her inland, to the
discomforts and enticements of being governess in a wealthy
colonial family. There restless Luke, likewise employed by the
family as a stable boy, will create his own troubles. Sequel to
The Switherby Pilgrims.
96-P ... 183 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Australia, 1830 • Ages 12-up, RL7.3
Old Sam, Dakota
Trotter
by Don Alonzo Taylor
Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund
Old Sam, a thoroughbred trotter on his
way to championship, is left on the Scott family farm after
a crippling accident. Instead of dying, Old Sam astonishes
everyone by going on to show he has a few tricks left. A firm
alliance soon develops between the plucky horse and the
equally resourceful sons of the family, Johnny and Lee Scott.
105-P ... 198 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
Dakota Territory, 1880’s • Ages 10-up, RL4
Audio Book Available, See Back Cover
eVersion Available
The Wide Horizon
by Loula Grace Erdman
Five years before, the Pierce family had left East
Texas to homestead in the difficult Panhandle
country. Timid, artistic Katie, at fifteen, is eager
to return there to attend school and enjoy a more
civilized, genteel life. When news comes of
Grandmother’s accident, Katie, to her own astonishment, volunteers to stay home and take over her mother’s tasks—feeding and
caring for Papa, her twin brothers and little sister—the very things
she finds most difficult. Katie’s horizons widen with each
courageous step as she learns new skills and confidence and
comes to trust both herself and others in a deeper way.
Core Knowledge
91-P ... 279 pp, Quality Softcover, $13.95
Texas, 1890’s • Ages 11-up, RL4
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Living History 1900-1940’s
Philomena
by Kate Seredy
Illustrated by the author
It has long been the custom for every 12-yearold girl from Philomena’s village to go to the
city to do “service” as a housemaid, before
coming home again to marry. But, years before,
Philomena’s aunt had gone and never returned. On her
deathbed, Babushka instructs her granddaughter to go to
Prague and find her aunt—who must now be rich. With
the confidence that Babushka is still watching over her from
heaven, Philomena sets off. Once there, Philomena bounces
from one adventure into another, steadily gaining experience,
friend—and pets!—until she accomplishes her goal. Thank
heaven! Delightfully illustrated by the author.
98-P ... 96 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Czechoslovakia, Early 1900’s • Ages 8-up, RL5.0
Year of the Black
Pony
by Walt Morey
Twelve-year-old Chris’s family has joined
numerous other pioneers striving to make a
go of homesteading in Oregon high desert.
The venture has been disastrous from the start. When it
seems that circumstances could not get worse, Chris’s dad
gets drunk and is killed in an accident. Not willing to give up,
Ma stubbornly—and creatively—seeks a way for the family to
stay on the high desert.
Core Knowledge, Accelerated Reader
88-P ... 171 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
Oregon, Early 1900’s • Ages 10-up, RL3.6
The Small War of
Sergeant Donkey
By Maureen Daly
Illustrated by Wesley Dennis
Twelve-year-old Chico Filippo can’t stay away
from the newly set up American Remount Depot. Here, in the last months of World War II in Italy, one of
the handlers introduces Chico to a small courageous animal
the boy names Sergeant Donkey. Drawn into friendship and
then into unexpected danger, Chico must demonstrate his
own simple courage.
Core Knowledge
43-P ... 87 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
Italy, 1940’s • Ages 9-up, RL6.8
The Winged
Watchman
by Hilda van Stockum
Illustrated by the author
Every element of occupied Holland is united
in a story of courage and hope: a hidden
Jewish child, an “underdiver,” a downed RAF pilot, and an
underground hero. The Verhagen family, who live in an old
windmill, are a set of individuals whose lives plainly demonstrate the resilience of those who suffer but do not lose faith.
Bestselling title!
Accelerated Reader
07-P ... 191 pp, Sewn Softcover, $14.95
Holland, 1940’s • Ages 10-up, RL4.9
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Suspense
A Long Way from
Welcome: A Mystery
in Paris
by Echo Lewis
“Welcome” is Maggie’s town, her own beloved
small-town, USA. Maggie realizes that some
change is inevitable now that her widowed mother, Mara,
is about to marry Bartholomew. While remodeling, they
arrange for Maggie to stay with Bartholomew’s sister, a wellknown painter who lives—in Paris! Not only that, she’s a nun!
Mysterious happenings unfold for Maggie . . . a long way
from Welcome.
55-P ... 182 pp, Quality Softcover, $10.95
Paris, France • Ages 12-up, RL5
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Following the
Phoenix
by Meriol Trevor
The Revolution of February, 1848, has erupted in France. Paul and Christie, both English,
and Jeanne d’Estel of Valmay, have concerns
of their own to pursue. But when the generous-hearted
Rafael is arrested by political enemies, harrowupward, but
for
ing days follow. Important truths of character come to light,
nder a roaring
and Rafael’s stature emerges: the “Phoenix” arises again from
ashes. Second book in Letzenstein Chronicles. (Books 1,
omethingthe
went
3
&
4as
of the Letzenstein Chronicles are currently available as
op it looked
digital editions—see the eStacks list on pages 22-23.)
s… and in the
26-P ... 191 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
Europe, 1848 • Ages 9-up, RL5.2
ntly of his father who
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Alvin Fernald,
Foreign Trader
by Clifford B. Hicks
Illustrated by Theodore
Schluenderfritz
Alvin has come up with the grand prizewinning recipe in a candy making contest. No one can quite
figure out how it happened. Now as guests of the Kitchenmate Appliance Company, Alvin, his friend Shoie, and his
sister Daphne take off for a tour of Europe. Alvin is given
a practical and perilous lesson in international trade. (See
more Alvin books in the eStacks list on page 22.)
Humor, Mystery, Accelerated Reader
65-P ... 181 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
Europe, 1950’s • Ages 9-up, RL5.8
The Strange Intruder
by Arthur Catherall
A normal day in the life of those who live
on the small, rocky island of Mykines in the
Faroes Islands is demanding enough. What
begins as a quiet day of fishing, with Sven enviously watching the men using fleygs (fowling nets) to catch birds on the cliffs high above him, ends in
a tumult of suspense and terror. A force ten gale; a damaged
ship in danger of smashing up on the rocks of the island most
of the crew call home; a handful of women, old men, and
one 16-year-old boy, to rescue the desperately helpless men.
Then, when it seems impossible for things to get any worse
than they already are—they do!
n a desperate attempt
ut when he perilously
ordeal he’d expected;
ring the whole island
s of the storm.
ten gale; a damaged
crew in danger of
on the rocks of its
home; a handful
old men, and one
d boy, Sven, to
m…When it seems
for things to get any
they already are on
Faroes island of
—they do! Once
Arthur
Catherall
weaves an authentic
age and suspense.
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81-P ... 151 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
Faroe Islands, 1950’s • Ages 10-up, RL6.0
Young Adult
14
Downright Dencey
by Caroline Dale Snedeker
Illustrated by Maginel Wright
Barney
This treasure of a novel is set on Nantucket
Island just before the American War of 1812.
When Dencey Coffyn is called names by the
local ragamuffin, Jetsam, she strives unsuccessfully to master her un-Quaker-like temper. Injuring the boy
with a thrown stone, Dencey is drawn—along with her entire
family—into further difficulties by her equally impetuous
sense of Christian duty. Within a context of outward simplicity of living and inward intricacy of relationship, Dencey
begins to mature into the young woman ready to bear her
part in life with grace and courage.
Core Knowledge, Accelerated Reader
68-P ... 268 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Nantucket, Early 1800’s • Ages 12-up, RL4.4
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They Loved to Laugh
by Kathryn Worth
Cover and Title Page Illustrated
by Marguerite de Angeli
Tears and laughter alternate in this novel
of a young girl’s growth to womanhood in
the 1830’s. 16-year-old orphan Martitia Howland has been
transplanted into a Quaker farm family of five intimidating
sons and one disapproving daughter. As Martitia runs their
gauntlet, she begins to bloom. Valiantly she acquires the skills
they expect of her, and discovers other gifts all her own. Her
achievements earn respect in the end and more, her heart’s
true love.
16-P ... 254 pp, Sewn Softcover, $13.95
North Carolina, 1830’s • Ages 12-up, RL5.4
Between the Forest
and the Hills
by Ann Lawrence
This entertaining tale is set in ancient Britain,
in an isolated Roman town cut off from the
collapse of the Empire. The primary concerns
for most of Iscium’s senators and officials are
to keep a low profile with the neighboring barbarians and to
renovate the city baths. When invasion suddenly threatens,
a mysterious, one-eyed merchant suggests a plan—involving
two talking ravens and the Hallelujah Chorus! Life is never
again the same, for the Romans or for their invaders. A wonderfully zany mix of history, humor and the miraculous.
Humor
36-P ... 247 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Roman Britain, 400’s • Ages 14-up, RL5.8
The Weka-Feather
Cloak: A New
Zealand Fantasy
by Leo Madigan
After Danny Mago gets a new job at a Convent, he stumbles across an ancient, unused elevator and the
uneventful tenor of his life takes a decided turn: upwards!
The resulting adventures become entangled with the mysterious quest that has brought Zelia all the way from Turkey.
Demonic creatures, angelic beings, sly villains, an old wekafeather cloak and an unforgettable Maori nun come together
in this amazing tale.
59-P ... 264 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
New Zealand, Contemporary • Ages 12-up, RL5
The Lark in the Morn
by Elfrida Vipont
Illustrated by T.R.Freeman
Twelve-year-old Kit Haverard is the only
daughter of an absent-minded, scholarly
Quaker father. Her world begins to expand
when, after an illness, she goes to stay with members of
her mother’s family whom she has never met. To her own
amazement, Kit discovers within herself a deep love for music
and—as a person and as a singer—she begins to raise her
voice.
101-P ... 196 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
England, 1950’s • Ages 11-up, RL4.5
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Young Adult
The Rose Round
by Meriol Trevor
Thirteen-year-old Matt is spending the holidays at the dilapidated Woodhall mansion
where his step-sister Caro works as a cook. In
a faded rose garden, Matt meets Alix, proud
old Madame Ayre’s granddaughter, little realizing that he is about to be drawn into the tension-filled relationships pervading the sad house. Watching large, clumsy
Theo, Madame’s crippled son and the focus of her embittered
mockery, go his quiet way, Matt is drawn more and more to
this silent, yet somehow indomitable man. When willful Alix
puts Theo’s life into serious danger, a dramatic culmination to
the years of discord finally occurs—with Matt and Caro right
in the middle!
09-P ... 211 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
England, 1960’s • Ages 12-up, RL4.3
Under a Changing
Moon
by Margot Benary-Isbert
When Paula returns from a convent boarding
school, she must learn to cope anew with five
rambunctious brothers, two eccentric aunts,
a bibliophile uncle, old Babbett, and energetic
Mama. While Paula works to adapt, her brothers keep things
lively, especially 15-year-old Adolf. Then, suddenly, all the
little difficulties of life are overshadowed by the Prussian
takeover—and it is in this complicated context that each of
the young Eisenberths find themselves faced with choices
that will change their lives.
33-P ... 320 pp, Sewn Softcover, $14.95
Germany, 1860’s • Ages 14-up, RL5.6
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That Girl of Pierre’s
15
Flight into Spring
by Bianca Bradbury
Opposites: Sally Day Hammond is vivacious,
tiny, coddled and Southern; Charles Horne
is silent, tall, unbending and Northern. The
American Civil War has just ended. And a
marriage is to be made between these two?
When Charles brings Sally Day back to live with his strict
New England family, little wonder that tensions rise to the
breaking point. But Sally Day has mettle; in the desperate
honesty of this young couple’s conflict, both young hearts
may yet stretch and truly meld.
85-P ... 184 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
New England, 1860’s • Ages 14-up, RL5.1
The Drovers Road
Collection: Adventures in New Zealand
by Joyce West
Illustrated by the Author
This is a three book collection. Drovers
Road introduces a young girl, Gabrielle (Gay, for short), who
decides to write a book about her home and family life on a
New Zealand sheep station. Cape Lost continues into Gay’s
growing-up life, when she comes into an inheritance. Finally,
in The Golden Country, the reader accompanies Gay through
both tensions and breakthroughs that prepare and mature
her for the years ahead. A lively and richly textured depiction
of a vanished way of life in New Zealand of the 1920’s and
30’s.
69-P ... 416 pp, Quality Softcover, $16.95
New Zealand, 1920’s-1930’s • Ages 12-up, RL4.5-5.5
eVersion Available
by Robert Davis
When Danielle, her grandmother, and young
brother return to their village of Arsac le Petit
near Bordeaux at the end of World War II,
they are hoping for the best. But her parents
and Danielle’s sweetheart are still missing.
In addition, they find that greedy villagers
have taken advantage of the family’s absence. Now they must
find work rather than give themselves to the restoration of
their neglected vineyard as they had planned. In Danielle’s
determination to reclaim a life for the family and to combat
the injustice of the swindle, she not only finds new strengths
in herself, but opens the way for others to choose the way
of hope and forgiveness as the surest path through the after
effects of war.
Core Knowledge
93-P ... 179 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
France, 1940’s • Ages 12-up, RL6.1
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Away Goes Sally
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrated by Helen Sewell
Young Sally belongs to a houseful of aunts
and uncles, with Uncle Joseph at its head,
but ruled over by his sister Nannie. A letter
from Cousin Ephraim, urging them to come settle in his—yet
uncivilized—area of Maine, sets these two at loggerheads.
Fortunately, Uncle Joseph has a clever plan of his own, which
will win the day, and launch Sally and her lively and lovable
relations onto a journey and an adventure that will change
their lives. First book in Sally Series.
72-P ... 118 pp, Quality Softcover, $10.95
America, 1780’s • Ages 8-up, RL5.8
Five Bushel Farm
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrated by Helen Sewell
The lives of the Titcombs are ruled by foolish
Mrs. Titcomb’s dreams. For instance, she has
dreamt that Captain Patterson, the father of
their young boarder Andrew has drowned and that they are
to leave the only place Captain Patterson would know to look
for his son. Though the ship is four months overdue, Andrew
cannot believe that his father is dead. Caught up in the hopelessly futile whims of his guardians, he tries to leave what
clues he can. Second book in Sally Series.
73-P ... 143 pp, Quality Softcover, $10.95
America, 1790’s • Ages 8-up, RL6.8
The White Horse
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrated by Helen Sewell
The Fair American
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrated by Helen Sewell
Five Bushel Farm is prospering on one side of
the Atlantic Ocean, but there is turmoil and
destruction on its other shore. When Sally
sails, with Andrew and her Aunt Debbie, to France on the
Fair American, she is unexpectedly drawn into the sorrows of
a land at war with itself. Pierre, son of an aristocrat killed in
the French Revolution, fleeing with his former servant Jean,
makes these difficulties suddenly and dangerously personal
to Sally and to those sailing on the Fair American. Third
book in Sally Series.
74-P ... 136 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
France, 1790’s • Ages 8-up, RL5.7
The Wonderful Day
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrated by Helen Sewell
After one adventurous, but fairly safe voyage,
Aunt Nannie reluctantly allows Sally to sail
away again, this time into the Mediterranean
Sea—and right into the clutches of the Barbary Coast pirates.
Taken captive, Sally is exposed to a way of life very different
from the protected one she has known. Her resiliency as well
as her courage and love are sorely tried; however, both she
and those she encounters in the Sultan’s palace will never be
quite the same for her stay there. Fourth book in Sally Series.
A hot July day with thunderheads, and a
violent storm to come; a day with hidden
heaviness for Uncle Joseph, who fears he may
lose Five Bushel Farm; a secretly anxious day for Andrew, who
goes with Sally to meet their old friend Pierre; a day in which
Sally and Andrew will race courageously against danger and
face many troubles—yet with all this…a wonderful day! Fifth
book in Sally Series.
75-P ... 169 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
Barbary Coast, 1790’s • Ages 10-up, RL5.9
76-P ... 139 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
America, 1790’s • Ages 10-up, RL6.4
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The Mitchells: Five
for Victory
by Hilda van Stockum
Illustrated by the author
Daddy has gone off to fight in World War II.
His final admonition to his daughter Joan is,
“No dogs!” She would dearly love a pet, but as
so many new friends—animal, as well as human—soon join
the Mitchell household, Joan has little time to think about
dogs. She and her four siblings form the Five-For-Victory
Club to aid the war-effort, and, before long, its activities are
carrying the family, friends and neighbors along in a wave of
“help” and laughter. First book in Mitchells Series.
Core Knowledge
05-P ... 236 pp, Sewn Softcover, $15.95
America, 1940’s • Ages 10-up, RL5.0
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Canadian Summer
by Hilda van Stockum
Illustrated by the author
The war now over, the large and growing
Mitchell family is set to move to Montreal—
but they cannot find a house to buy or rent.
They finally settle, over Mother’s protests, for a remote, rickety summer house in the woods near a lake. The six children,
ever aided and abetted by Grannie, are once more than ready
to take life as it comes, and are happily rewarded with a truly
unforgettable Canadian summer. Second book in Mitchells
Series.
14-P ... 181 pp, Sewn Softcover, $13.95
Canada, 1940’s • Ages 10–up, RL5.3
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Friendly Gables
by Hilda van Stockum
Illustrated by the author
The Mitchells are settled in their new home—
and twins have just been added to the family.
With Mother recovering from the births and
with other changes in the household, the children must come
to terms with themselves in new ways. Joan’s first dance; Peter’s disastrous fight; Timmy’s “good news”; and Catherine’s
brush with fire —are only a few of the incidents in the life of
this busy, growing family. Third book in Mitchells Series.
19-P ... 165 pp, Sewn Softcover, $13.95
Canada, 1940’s • Ages 10–up, RL4.0
eVersion Available
Francie on the Run
by Hilda van Stockum
Illustrated by the author
Francie has had a successful operation in a
Dublin hospital, but longs to return to his
family in County Cork. He heads out the
hospital door, no permission asked, and finds a train—won’t
any train do? Francie finds himself making a speedy tour (in
the opposite direction from home) around the Emerald Isle;
a journey full of adventure, laughter, and endearing friendships for Francie—and the reader! Second book in Bantry
Bay Series.
13-P ... 293 pp, Sewn Softcover, $13.95
Ireland, 1930’s • Ages 8-up, RL4.4
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Pegeen
by Hilda van Stockum
Illustrated by the author
Pegeen, a friend Francie makes on his unexpected tour around Ireland, has just lost her
Grannie. When Pegeen is told she cannot stay
alone in their small cottage, she gets Fr. Kelly to write a letter
to Francie. Thus Pegeen comes to live, at least temporarily,
with the O’Sullivans. No one (except perhaps Francie) is
quite prepared for the girl’s knack for turning the world up on
end. Two such personalities in one small cottage on Bantry
Bay? Hang on to your hats! Third book in Bantry Bay Series.
20-P ... 266 pp, Sewn Softcover, $13.95
Ireland, 1930’s • Ages 8-up, RL4.9
eVersion Available
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(see page 22); it will soon be re-issued as a print book.
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First Farm in the
Valley: Anna’s Story
by Anne Pellowski
Illustrated by Roseanne Sharpe
Anna’s mother, father and brother had come
from Poland to live in a tiny sod house in Wisconsin and establish the first farm in the Latch Valley. Now the family lives
in a real house, with neighbors on every side, and the world
for Anna is filled with possibilities—and lots of hard work.
First book in Latsch Valley Farm Series.
103-P ... 212 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Wisconsin, Late 1800’s • Ages 8-12, RL4.6
Read Aloud Interest 5-up, eVersion Available
Winding Valley Farm:
Annie’s Story
by Anne Pellowski
Illustrated by Roseanne Sharpe
The possibility that the Dorawas might have
to leave Winding Valley Farm has upset sixand-a-half-year-old Annie. That worry (along
with an inner imp of mischief always threatening to get her
into trouble) overshadows the otherwise full, happy life she
shares with her sister and five brothers. Over the year, the
worry seems to resolve itself, but that imp finally catches up
with her when brother John is killing chickens at the chopping block! Oh, Annie! Second book in Latsch Valley Farm
Series.
106-P ... 204 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Wisconsin, 1908 • Ages 8-12, RL4.5
Read Aloud Interest 5-up, eVersion Available
Stairstep Farm: Anna
Rose’s Story
by Anne Pellowski
Illustrated by Roseanne Sharpe
While Anna Rose waits impatiently for the
first day of school, her days are filled with
family work—minding geese, helping with
the haying, minding her three little sisters—and with family celebrations—good food, singing, sledding, and games
of Star Light, Moonlight and Uncle Wiggily. Based on the
author’s own life, this story continues the appealing depiction
of memorable people and events in the Pellowski family and
its Latsch Valley descendents. Third book in Latsch Valley
Farm Series.
109-P ... 185 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Wisconsin, 1930’s • Ages 8-12, RL4.5
Read Aloud Interest 5-up, eVersion Available
Willow Wind Farm:
Betsy’s Story
by Anne Pellowski
Illustrated by Roseanne Sharpe
Willow Wind Farm, though only mediumsized, has 30 milking cows, 26 heifers, 25
steers, 24 pigs, 18 chickens, 1 rooster, 10 cats
and 2 gods—just enough to keep 7-year-old Betsy Korb and
her eight sisters and one brother plenty occupied! Inebriated
pigs, Christmas puzzles, an unexpected visitor from Africa,
an eccentric donut machine, fun games and stories from
Aunt Anne, add their part to the lively, interesting life of this
next generation of families in the Latsch Valley Fourth book
in Latsch Valley Farm Series.
115-P ... 182 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Wisconsin, 1967 • Ages 8-12, RL 4.2
Read Aloud Interest 5-up
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Happy Little Family
by Rebecca Caudill
Illustrated by Decie Merwin
It is a good thing that mothers understand
what no one else seems to when you are the
youngest child in the family, and are finally
four years old. Bonnie is more than ready to join her older
sisters and brother in the many adventures she sees come
their way, whether it be sliding along the ice, searching for
arrowheads, or going on that journey of all journeys—across
the swinging bridge to SCHOOL. And, four years old or not,
Bonnie usually manages to be in the middle of the action!
First book in Fairchild Family Series.
63-P ... 107 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
Kentucky, Early 1900’s • Ages 8-up, RL4.1
Up and Down the
River
by Rebecca Caudill
Illustrated by Decie Merwin
Bonnie and Debbie’s desire to get rich causes
them to respond to a sure-thing magazine
advertisement. They embark upon an ambitious summer of
selling “up and down the river.” In a surprising flurry of trading, the girls accumulate wealth in the form of unexpected
friends, assorted animals, and unforeseen situations, even
as their collection of dimes and dollars seems to be slipping
through their hands. Third book in Fairchild Family Series.
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Schoolhouse in the
Woods
by Rebecca Caudill
Illustrated by Decie Merwin
Bonnie is old enough to begin the great
adventure—School! We join Bonnie in the
excruciating anticipation of the first day, when she will wear
her new dress, carry a first reader and slate, and—displaying
nonchalance as she braves the swinging bridge—enter into
the mysteries of schoolroom learning and playground rites in
a woodland setting of the early 1900s. Second book in Fairchild Family Series.
69-P ... 129 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
Kentucky, Early 1900’s • Ages 8-up, RL4.3
Read Aloud Interest 4-up
Schoolroom in the
Parlor
by Rebecca Caudill
Illustrated by Decie Merwin
School in the Kentucky hills goes from August to the last Friday before Christmas. After
that the snows are too high, and later, the thawing rivers too
full, for the Fairchild children, and their neighbors to make it
safely to the little school house in the woods. Now that Althy
is fourteen, Mr. Fairchild has other plans for the long winter
months. Fourth book in Fairchild Family Series.
70-P ... 143 pp, Quality Softcover, $11.95
Kentucky, Early 1900’s • Ages 8-up, RL3.9
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Biographical Stories
Once Upon a Time
Saints
by Ethel Pochocki
Illustrated by Tom Matt
“These stories,” the author explains, “are
meant to show human and lovable people
whose mysterious passion for God led them into preposterous escapades.” With an eye toward the taste of a child for
concrete detail and with no apologies for “the embroidery of
legend,” Ethel Pochocki demonstrates her inimitable gift for
crafting tales as edifying as they are entertaining.
15-P ... 83 pp, Sewn Softcover, $11.95
Ages 5-up, RL6.2
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Around the Year
Once Upon a Time
Saints
by Ethel Pochocki
Illustrated by Benjamin Hatke
Each tale or verse—whether of friars who float in the air or of
entire countries single-handedly converted to Christianity—
shows heaven doesn’t keep to its place at all, but is determined to spill over into earthly life.
104-P ... 211 pp, Quality Softcover, $14.95
Ages 10-up, RL6.2
Read Aloud Interest 5-up, eVersion Available
More Once Upon a
Time Saints
by Ethel Pochocki
Illustrated by Kathy Holbrook
In the follow-up collection of stories, Ethel
Pochocki once again leads us through the adventures, joys
and sorrows of another selection of saints, these very real
people, who lived and breathed in a world as changeful as our
own.
32-P ... 91 pp, Sewn Softcover, $11.95
Ages 5-up, RL6.2
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Saints and Heroes
by Ethel Pochocki
Ethel Pochocki has selected a mixture
for older youth of “soldiers and sailors,
kings and queens, doctors, lawyers, beggars, thieves, poets, diplomats, fools and
cranks,” and she has told their stories in
her characteristic lively style. She shows
how brave and generous such people were;
how they challenged the society they lived in; and how they
have since become light-bearers for future generations.
114-P ... 258 pp, Quality Softcover, $15.95
Ages 12-up, RL 7.8
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My Heart Lies South:
The Story of My
Mexican Marriage
By Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
When a thoroughly-modern American lady
journalist of the 1930’s becomes a Mexican
senora in old-fashioned Monterrey, anything
might happen—and does! In this autobiographical account,
Elizabeth de Treviño finds herself—sometimes hilariously—
coping with servants, daily food allowances, bargaining and
dramatic Latin emotions. The author, winner of the Newbery Award (for I, Juan de Pareja), succeeds in painting an
unforgettable picture of faith and love, displayed against the
backdrop of a lively, but benevolent, collision of cultures.
47-P ... 228 pp, Quality Softcover, $14.95
Mexico, 1930’s • Ages 14-up, RL7.4
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Happy Times in Noisy
Village
by Astrid Lindgren
Illustrated by Ilon Wikland
Translated by Florence Lamborn
The lively children of Noisy Village—three farms clumped
together in rural Sweden—make the place live up to its name.
A large linden tree grows between Middle (where storyteller,
Lisa, lives) and South Farms, making visiting between the
houses easy. Even the girls will sometimes climb through its
branches, like the night they all waited for Olaf to go to sleep
so that they could pull out his loose tooth without his knowing it! This is only one of many escapades likely to make
readers young and old wish they could step right into the
pages of this little book and find themselves—well, maybe in
a linden tree! Join the fun in this companion volume to The
Children of Noisy Village (published by Viking Penguin).
57-P ... 119 pp, Quality Softcover, $12.95
Sweden • Ages 8-up, RL4.3
The Saving Name of
God the Son
by Jean Ann Sharpe, editor
Through the serene beauty of word and image, The Saving Name of God the Son introduces the very young to the
Christian mystery of Jesus Christ, Second Divine Person of
the Trinity. This full-color book focuses on the invocations
and titles of Christ. Drawing from the rich treasure of biblical language and doctrinal understanding of our Faith, and
using the luminous art of Fra Angelico, the life of our Lord is
depicted from conception to the promise of his final return.
107-H ... 20 pp, Board Book, $9.95
All Ages, Read Aloud Interest 3-up
A Day on Skates
by Hilda van Stockum
Illustrated by the Author
“What a wonderful evening I had,
snug in my warm house, reading
about these Dutch children on
skates! I skated with this class and their teacher along canals
and other waterways past farms and a town. I lived briefly in
a simpler time (the 1930’s) with some real people, and the day
will long live in my memory. For me, it would have been a
great day even if nothing had happened. But something did.
There is suspense and adventure enough for readers who like
these in their stories.”
-Dr. Ruth Beechick, from a review used in our 1998 catalog
(Dr. Beechick, inspiring educator and author, died on November 27, 2013. We give thanks for her life, and her legacy
of help and encouragement to teachers and children everywhere.)
97-H ... 40 pp, Sewn Hardcover, $19.95
Holland, Early 1900’s • Ages 4-up, RL5.9
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The Mystery of the
Periodic Table
by Benjamin D. Wiker
Illustrated by Jeanne Bendick
and Ted Schluenderfritz
Wiker leads a delightful journey through the ages of the Periodic Table. He introduces people like Boyle, Stahl, and many
others, all diverse in personality and approach, who have laid
the groundwork for a search that is still unfolding to this day.
Core Knowledge, Accelerated Reader, Science
62-P ... 161 pp, Quality Softcover, $15.95
Ch 1-9, Ages 10-up; Ch 10-18, Ages 12-up, RL9.1
eVersion Available
The Kitchen Madonna
by Rumer Godden
Illustrated by Lydia Halverson
Marta, who comes from the Polish Ukraine,
with her thick accent, her good cooking,
and her stories, is the anchor of the house
for Gregory and his sister Janet. Mother and
father, both busy architects, are gone all day and sometimes
at night. Marta is always there; and the children, sensing
her unhappiness, are afraid she will want to go away. When
they find out that she misses having a “good place” in the
kitchen—where the image of the Madonna and Child bring
warmth and blessing—Gregory and Janet set out on what
may well be an impossible quest. However, with each new
difficulty, Gregory discovers an unexpected measure of faith
and resourcefulness welling up within himself. Master storyteller Rumer Godden deftly brings to life a portrait of a lonely
boy discovering the power of love.
102-H ... 103 pp, Hardcover, $14.95
England, 1900’s • Ages 8-up, RL5.4
Read Aloud Interest 7-up
The Miracle of Saint
Nicholas
by Gloria Whelan
Illustrated by Judith Brown
It was the day before Christmas in a small
Russian village. Alexi’s babushka was telling him what Christmas was like in the church of St. Nicholas when she was a
girl—before the soldiers came. Alexi had many questions,
“Why can’t we celebrate Christmas tomorrow in St. Nicholas?” Babushka replied that it would take a miracle. Well,
Alexi had heard enough. If there truly was such a thing as a
miracle, why couldn’t it happen here?
Core Knowledge, Accelerated Reader
18-H ... 31 pp, Sewn Hardcover, $16.95
Russia, 1943-1990’s • All Ages, RL4.0
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The Frosty Filly
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A story of the last Christian
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1846, Lake Superior adventure.
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Post-WWII Virginia horse
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Alvin for Mayor
The Cottage at Bantry Bay
Galewood Crossing
by Clifford B. Hicks
Alvin definitely likes being
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by Hilda van Stockum
First in Bantry Bay Series.
by Alta Halverson Seymour
Wisconsin settlement,
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Crazy Legs McBain
Gid Granger
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Alvin’s solution to a secret
code carry him to an ending
that is satisfying to all...well,
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A Joe Archibald football story.
by Robert Davis
Story of a young progressive farmer in WWII.
Angel and Dragon
The Crystal Snowstorm
by Meriol Trevor
Third book in Letzenstein
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by Meriol Trevor
First book in Letzenstien Chronicles.
The Golden Hawks
of Genghis Khan
Arrow Messenger
Debbie Barnes, Trader
The Locked Crowns
by Robert Burleigh
Exciting story of a young boy
in Middle Ages Mongolia.
by Constance Lindsay Skinner
Daniel Boone is part of this story.
by Marion Garthwaite
Sixth century, retelling of
Havelok the Dane saga.
Backfield Twins
Enemy Brothers
Long Rifle Vanguard
by Joe Archibald
College football drama in the
1950’s.
by Constance Savery
Gripping tale of two brothers and
their struggle toward reconciliation
during WWII.
by E.H. Staffelback
Third in series of Oregon
expansion, 1843.
Big League Busher
Fighting Coach
The Lost Wagon
by Joe Archibald
A Joe Archibald baseball
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by Joe Archibald
Small town college football by Joe
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by Jim Kjelgaard
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The Black Tiger
For Texas and Freedom
by Patrick O’Connor
1950’s, road racing adventure.
by E.H. Staffelback
Westward expansion in the Texas
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Mystery of the
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1963, West Germany, needing to find identity.
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One Week of Danger
Secret of the Shetlands
The Stubborn Mare
by Cateau De Leeuw
1788 and the conflicts between
settlers and Indians.
by Margaret Ruthin
Adventure on the Shetland Islands,
modern times.
by Jo Sykes
Story of Andy and a cutting horse in Montana.
Polly Rides West
Sicilian Mystery
Towards Oregon
by Robert McCulloch
1849, Polly is orphaned and
needs to get to California.
by Arthur Catherall
Excitement on the Mediterranean
in the 1960’s.
by E.H. Staffelbach
1832, first in the Longrifle
series.
Prisoners in the
Snow
The Story of
Grettir the Strong
Windigo
by Arthur Catherall
1960’s, Austrian Alps, adventure.
by Allen French
10th century Icelandic saga.
by Jane and Paul Annixter
A Canadian adventure for
14-year old Andy.
The Ranch of the
Golden Flowers
by Constance Lindsay Skinner
A story of Old California.
Red Dog Center
by Joe Archibald
Struggles of a small town football hero.
The Rose and Crown
by Meriol Trevor
Fourth book in Letzenstein
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