Teddy's Button
10 best books like Teddy's Button (Amy Le Feuvre): The Lamplighter, All-of-a-Kind Family, Sounder, Kingdom's Hope, Kingdom's Dawn, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Alone Yet Not Alone, In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How it Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture, The Basket of Flowers: A Tale for the Young, A Peep Behind the Scenes
| Author | Maria Susanna Cummins |
| ISBN | 0813513332 |
Excerpt from The Lamplighter
Haunted Hearts She became a frequent con tributor to The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. But her sudden popularity left her quite unspoiled. A singular modesty, a childlike simplicity, a deep and beauti ful religious faith, were the qualities that endeared...
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0385732953 |
It's the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters - Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie. Follow along as they search for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front parlor, or explore the basement warehouse of Papa's peddler's...
| Author | William H. Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0064400204 |
Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Sounder, and the poor sharecroppers who own him.
During the difficult years of the nineteenth century South, an African-American boy and his poor family rarely have enough to eat. Each night, the...
| Author | Chuck Black |
| ISBN | 1590526805 |
A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible
Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom’s Dawn, Leinad and Tess, along with all the king’s people, must escape slavery by the powerful Lord Fairos. Kingdom’s Hope finds...
| Author | Chuck Black |
| ISBN | 1590526791 |
A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory!
In Kingdom's Dawn , Leinad and Tess, along with all the king's people, must escape slavery by the powerful Lord Fairos. Kingdom's Hope finds them free and...
| Author | Jean Lee Latham |
| ISBN | 0618250743 |
Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings...
| Author | Tracy Michele Leininger |
| ISBN | 1929241364 |
Autumn of 1755 bestowed to the Leiningers’ world, not only its rich beauties, but also a rewarding harvest. On this particular day the whole valley seemed to rejoice in the fullness of the season—but suddenly Barbara and Regina’s peaceful frontier life is changed forever. General Braddock...
| Author | Alister E. McGrath |
| ISBN | 0385722168 |
In the sixteenth century, to attempt to translate the Bible into a common tongue wasn't just difficult, it was dangerous. A Bible in English threatened the power of the monarch and the Church. Early translators like Tyndale, whose work greatly influenced the King James, were hunted down and executed,...
| Author | Christoph von Schmid |
| ISBN | 1584740019 |
This first book of the Lamplighter Rare Collector's Series continues to be a best-seller. James, the king's gardener, teaches his 15-year-old daughter Mary all the principles of godliness through his flowers. She is falsely accused of stealing, and the penalty is death. Mary remembers her father...
| Author | Mrs. O.F. Walton |
| ISBN | 1584740035 |
Behind many smiling faces there hides a hurting heart, and for what may appear to be glamorous, there is usually a high price to pay. Mrs. Walton gives us a glimpse into the life of a disillusioned young actress. In her fabricated world of glamour and glitz, Rosalie finds solace in the words of a gentle old...
| Author | Mary Martha Sherwood |
| ISBN | 1584740116 |
After a devotional study of the Hebrew word "shamar"(a primitive root) and its Greek equivalents, which included an in-depth look at most of the scriptures containing multiple nuances of its meaning, I began to mull over various applications.
While taking a breather, I was surprised to find...
| Author | Florence Morse Kingsley |
| ISBN | 1584740027 |
Well this one was... unexpected. I'm honestly not sure how to review it. It almost makes me feel like a bad Christian to give a book about Jesus two stars? But here goes. XP
I will say that while the plot line was okay, the writing was very subpar. The narrative jumped around in a confusing way, and...
| Author | Mercer Mayer |
| ISBN | 0307159817 |
I began illustrating books in 1966. Since that time I have published over 300 books. Most of my books are about things that happened to me when I was a little kid. Now I'm a big kid and I write about things that happen now, especially with my own children. They always remind me of what it was like.
I...
