In 1864 when his family moves to Bellfield, Minnesota, where his father will be the town minister, twelve-year-old Ben misses his friend Zack, who is now a drummer in the Union Army, but he finds a new friend in an orphan whose parents were killed during an Indian raid.

The Redheaded Orphan (Ben and Zack, Bk 3)

Children's Books

Travis, Lucille

Literature & Fiction

Baker Pub Group

The children at Apple Valley Orphanage befriend two Mexican children who have run away from a cruel migrant labor boss.

Jeanmarie and the Runaways (Apple Valley Mysteries)

Religion & Spirituality

During World War II, Jeanmarie and her friends at Apple Valley Orphanage suspect their director of involvement with the black market and/or Nazi saboteurs, and, after writing to alert the FBI, they set out to prove it.

Jeanmarie and the FBI (Apple Valley Mysteries)

During World War II, Jeanmarie, Pearl, and Wilfred from Apple Valley Orphanage are hospitalized after a circus fire and, while exploring the nineteenth-century basement tunnels in New York City's Bellevue Hospital, they encounter a thief.

Jeanmarie, With Love (Apple Valley Mysteries)

Mysteries & Detectives

In 1945, the girls at Apple Valley Orphanage believe the quiet new Jewish girl is stealing stamps and other small objects, and that their housemother is being threatened by a strange man.

Jeanmarie and the Missing Ring (Apple Valley Mysteries)

Two boys, one black and the other white, are kidnapped from their Tarrytown, N.Y., home by Confederate spies and taken north along the Hudson River and into Canada

Captured by a Spy (Ben and Zack, Book 1)

While staying at his uncle's mission in New York City during the Civil War, twelve-year-old Ben and his friend Zack try to help a young girl escape from a gang.

The Thief from Five Points (Ben and Zack Series, Bk. 2)

Tirzah’s people, the Israelites, have been in slavery to the Egyptians for many years. Tirzah and her lame brother, Oren, help gather straw to make bricks. She observes the suffering of her people and the injustices that are done to them by the Egyptian police. Moses begs Pharaoh to let them go, but Pharaoh makes them work harder. One night, when the plague of death strikes down Pharaoh’s own son, he allows the Israelites to flee on foot, only to pursue them with horses and chariots. He believes he will have them trapped between the mountains and the sea, but God miraculously delivers them. The Israelites celebrate with a song of hope and victory. Tirzah befriends a young Egyptian girl who has fled with them, even though others treat her badly. In spite of hardship and disappointment, Tirzah and her family keep trusting Yahweh to carry them through.

Tirzah

Herald Press

Timna is the wife of Shem, one of Noah’s sons. As this story by Lucille Travis for 9-to-14-year-olds open, the family has loaded the ark with animals and supplies as God has ordered, and they are ready to shut the doors. Soon the Flood will begin. Along with two enchanting and mischievous dogs named Thief and Mangy, Timna seals herself into the ark. She doesn’t know what to expect, only that she is obeying—and trusting—God.

Timna

Many years ago, a lone mouse fled as rats burned her village. Wounded and footsore, she left her infant son in the care of the kind mice of Fleur Gardens. Then she vanished into the night. Now her son Horace has grown to mousehood, and he has a talent beyond any that Fleur Gardens has ever seen. Every night, this talent drives him and his friend Max to the second floor of the humans' office building. But the human world is forbidden to all the mice of Fleur Gardens. And each time Horace crosses the carefully-patrolled borders, he risks exposing his colony to the humans. When one fateful escapade puts Fleur Gardens in danger, Horace must set aside his own dream to defend his friends.

The Far Journey

JourneyForth

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