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Five days without her mother! Right then, Ami decided that life in Ghana, West Africa was unfair. But her friends and grandparents stepped in and made the time pass quickly. Patterns and directions for a doll, a doll dress, and a sock monkey... Learn more

"You better stay out of the creek today. The water is too high to wade," Mom had said. But when Becky came to play, Emmy didn't want to hear that little warning voice in her head. Emmy Lou hated disappointing Becky. So when Becky suggested, ... Learn more

Suddenly something dawned on Esther that she had never thought of before. "We live in the middle of the world and everybody else lives around us." Everyone but Esther laughed. "What's so funny?" Esther cried. "We do, don't we?" "Yes, dear," ... Learn more

Papa closed the curtains so no one could see inside their house. Irina felt a tingle of fear. Sunday was the scariest day of the week! There was not one church house in their town in Kazakhstan. The government made sure of that. Papa an... Learn more

Julia got along better with her pet chickens than she did with her classmates. Sometimes the other children laughed at her, so she often just played by herself. "They don't like me," Julia told her dad when he encouraged her to be friendlier... Learn more

When Heidi’s parents are on a trip, Heidi stays at Aunt Sarah’s house. Grandma lives with Aunt Sarah too, but Grandma can’t walk anymore. She can’t talk or sing or eat by herself. She can only lie quietly in her bed. But she can still listen... Learn more

Missionaries come to visit the Nenets in northern Russia to tell them about the best friend of all. Learn more

Joanne is the oldest of the three girls in the Otto family. Joanne likes when Dad calls her his right-hand man and depends on her to help stack wood or follow a bee swarm. She likes to organize things, but her sisters don’t appreciate her bo... Learn more

Miriam loves her peaceful home by the shores of the Sea of Galilee. But when the wheat harvest fails and taxes are due, it seems as though her family will lose their house. "Jehovah will provide," Father says. Will He? Can we keep living in ... Learn more

Ten years before Clara was born, in 1925, her parents and older siblings had sailed from Russia to Canada. Life was hard on the flat Manitoba prairies, and the family owed a debt to the railroad. A bag of flour during the night, a washtub fr... Learn more

A sequel to Little Prairie Girl. Clara's father feels they should move away from Manitoba, but is British Columbia where God would have them relocate? And how can they afford it? Amidst the uncertainty and changes of the family's eventual mo... Learn more

Martha’s older brother set a coon trap and triggered it with a stick to show how the jaws sprang shut. What would happen if I put my foot in it? Martha wondered. These traps are just for coons, so they wouldn’t hurt me. Learn with Martha wha... Learn more

“Dad can tell you a story about me and a mouse,” Mom told Randy. This sounded interesting!“A mouse story?” Dad wiped his hands on a shop rag. “Oh, that!”Randy laughed when Dad told him the story, but Dad guessed correctly that Mom had a reas... Learn more

Rosy could hardly wait! Grandmother had asked the girl cousins to take turns sleeping overnight at her house and helping her with cleaning the next day. But that night Rosy couldn’t sleep. To Rosy’s astonishment, Grandmother exclaimed, “I ca... Learn more

“What’s your hurry this morning?” Mother asked. “Do you have something special planned?” “Um, sort of,” Rebekah answered carefully. “I just want to try something new.” She wanted her ink to be secret, in case it didn’t turn out. 

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"Louise! Come see what I found!" Daddy called. "I found a surprise for you." He cuddled something in his hat. "What do you have?" eight-year-old Louise asked, bursting with curiosity. Join Loise and her family during an adventurous summer of... Learn more