Building Blocks

Author	Anne Lindbergh
ISBN	0316526282

I FOUND IT!

For years, I have thought about this book from time to time. I vividly recalled reading a really good book, narrated by a girl living with her grandmother and involving time travel down a laundry chute. I had no idea what the title was or who the author was, so I despaired of ever finding...

Author	Alex Shearer
ISBN	0330431900

In a future world where people live to be 150, humans have paid the price for their longer lives—the cost being their fertility. Children have become a commodity: they are bought and sold, won and lost, and worst of all, are hunted by the "kiddernappers" keen to make a quick buck on a big sale.

When...

Author	Pamela F. Service
ISBN	0449703398

Lorna Padgett, an archeologist's daughter, has inherited her father's love for ancient Egypt. Ameni lived over four thousand years ago. The son of a Pharoah, he loved adventure but had no idea what destiny the gods were holding for him. These two should never have met. But a walk in the hills near her father's...

Author	Sid Fleischman
ISBN	0061345032

When Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto the thirteenth floor of a shabby old building, he finds himself suddenly transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm—three hundred years in the past! Cast adrift with Captain John Crack-stone, Buddy washes up in New England, where his plucky ancestor,...

Author	Philip Yancey
ISBN	0310243130

Insights from Philip Yancey’s personal pilgrimage away from and back to the church. Why are there so many more professing Christians than churchgoing Christians? Is it because something is wrong with the church? In his candid, thought-provoking manner, award-winning author Philip Yancey reveals...

Author	Gary Paulsen
ISBN	1416939385

In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-ups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, the year Marsh and his best friend, Willy, are twelve, Carl appears at the rink, wearing a battered, old leather flight jacket and doing a strange...

Author	Maggie Prince
ISBN	0618331247

Something is not right in Emily’s new house in the historic London neighborhood of Hound Hill. And something is not quite right with Emily. Encountering hints to her home’s haunted past, she begins to experience distressing symptoms: a headache, a fever, extreme thirst, hallucinations, and,...

Author	Bruce David Forbes
ISBN	0520251040

Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells...

Author	Lynd Ward
ISBN	0395643775

A wordless children's graphic novel and/or picture book about a farm boy who sees a silver flying horse. Is it real? Well, he tells his Dad, who punishes him for lying. But we know differently. We have actually seen the horse, who carries the boy all across the country, giving him the opportunity to help...

Author	Kathi Appelt
ISBN	0152052429

When Baby Bird says good-bye to his mama at school each morning, he feels sad. Mama Bird feels sad, too. Sometimes it's hard to be apart. But as Mama Bird says, the love they share is with them always, keeping them close until the best part of the day--when they are together again. •From the illustrator...

Author	Max Lucado
ISBN	0849956501

Everybody needs to know that God thinks they're special. A warm-hearted gift appropriate for almost anyone at any occasion, God Thinks You're Wonderful is the perfect way to say, "You Are Special." Who wouldn't enjoy 96 pages of smile-producing affirmations such as:

"If God had a refrigerator,...

Author	Bernard Waber
ISBN	0618238557

What is courage? Certainly it takes courage for a firefighter to rescue someone trapped in a burning building, but there are many other kinds of courage too. Everyday kinds that normal, ordinary people exhibit all the time, like “being the first to make up after an argument,” or “going to bed without...

Author	Gordon T. Smith
ISBN	0830822542

God has called you--first to himself, to know and follow him but also to a specific life purpose, a particular reason for being.This second call, to a defining purpose or mission in life, is often termed a vocation, from the Latin root meaning "calling." And while it has implications for your work or occupation,...

Author	Susan Howatch
ISBN	0345466284

Deftly combining the sacred and the profane—the unmistakable hallmark of her fiction over the past decade—Susan Howatch gives us a spellbinding, suspenseful and psychologically intense new novel.

The financial heart of London—the City—is an adrenaline-charged square mile...

Author	Mary Stolz
ISBN	0440911230

This is the story of two girls: Erin and Irun. One lives now in New York City, and one belongs in ancient Egypt 3,000 years ago. One is fascinated by things of the past, and the other haunted by a voice from the future.

For Erin, the "now" she lives in is not all she'd like it to be. There are problems...

Author	Janice Graham
ISBN	0425169871

In the tradition of The Horse Whisperer comes a novel from the heart that tells a story of universal truths--of the love between men and women and mothers and daughters.

In the tradition of The Horse Whisperer comes a novel from the heart that tells a story of universal truths--of the love between...

Author

Enid Blyton

Joint review of Six Cousins at Mistletoe Farm and this book.

There are two brothers, David and Peter. Peter's the farmer, David's the townie. David's house burns down and he sends his children to Peter's house while he goes and tries to find work. He ultimately returns and buys a farm next to Mistletoe...

Author	Peter Dickinson
ISBN	0007140312

Long-awaited new editions of Peter Dickinson’s cult classics


England in the future – but an England that is less rather than more civilised. This is the time of The Changes – a time when people, especially adults, have grown to hate machines and returned to a more primitive lifestyle....

Author	Walt Disney Company
ISBN	0394942353

This was one of those interesting variations of Bambi that was made from the movie and not from the actual book thus giving children a chance to read instead of to just watch a movie. That said although there were a few scenes from the actual movie a lot of the plot was added in without looking to the movie to...

Author	Katherine Paterson
ISBN	0140373977

Written by Newbery, National Book Award, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal winner Katherine Paterson

The Johnsons are becoming country music stars. They're on TV and the radio--and it's all because of James. His voice and his guitar playing bring the songs to life, and make the audiences beg...

Author	Peg Kehret
ISBN	0671034197

Oh, BRRRRROTHER!
Hi. I'm Julie Welsh. My nine-year-old brother is always cooking up schemes...and I get blamed. Because I'm older. Eleven, to be exact. But Frankie has his good points too, as I told Mrs. Kaplan, my 89-year-ald pen pal, who lives in Kansas. I write Mrs. Kaplan about everything. Even...

Author	Kristin von Kreisler
ISBN	0761518088

Do Animals Have Feelings?
According to Kristin von Kreisler, the answer is an undeniable yes. Here, she shares dozens of absorbing, true stories of animals who've risked their lives to keep the human they love out of danger. You'll read of incredibly heroic acts—from the dog who swallows a firecracker...