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10 best books like The Day They Came to Arrest the Book (Nat Hentoff): Shakespeare's Daughter, Sing Fox to Me, Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, Converting Kate, The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn, Memoirs of a Bookbat, The Moves Make the Man, The Last Safe Place on Earth, Beyond the Desert Gate, The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State

Shakespeare's Daughter
AuthorPeter W. Hassinger
ISBN0060284676
Susanna Shakespeare finds the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon much too quiet and provincial. She yearns to travel to London to see her father's world of players and poets, and to follow a secret dream of her own. Once Susanna arrives in London, nothing is quite as she expected it to be -- least of all...
Sing Fox to Me
AuthorSarah Kanake
In 1986, the year the Tasmanian tiger is officially declared extinct, fourteen-year-old Samson and his twin brother Jonah travel from the Sunshine Coast to the wild back country of west Tasmania to live on a mountain with a granddad they’ve never met.

Clancy is a beat-up old man who breaks...
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
AuthorJan Greenberg
ISBN0810943867
Fantastic concept. Seeing the works of art through the poets' eyes really helped me see more in them, connect with them on a deeper level. Many were new to me, though, and that was interesting, too.

I really liked what Bobbi Katz did in "Lessons from a Painting by Rothko" for one of Marc Rothko's...
Converting Kate
AuthorBeckie Weinheimer
ISBN0670061522
Kate was raised in the Holy Divine Church. It influenced everything from her homeschooling to her handmade clothes. But ever since her unbelieving father's death last year, she has suspected that there's more to life than memorizing scripture.

Taking advantage of their move to a new town,...
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
AuthorDorothy Hoobler
ISBN0142405418
Dubbed as a Japanese Sherlock Holmes, The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn is a classic, yet simple, mystery with a cultural twist. I remember seeing this book in my brother's room when I was younger and the cover, despite its cheesiness, was curious about the story. Crazy thing is, he still has it, but he's across...
Memoirs of a Bookbat
AuthorKathryn Lasky
ISBN0152012591
Harper Jessup is an avid reader, and when her parents become “migrants for God” she must keep her books secret. As Harper grows older and realizes how valuable reading is to her, she comes to understand that her parents’ radical efforts in favor of educational censorship are related to a quest...
The Moves Make the Man
AuthorBruce Brooks
ISBN0064405648
Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step with twist to the left, stutter into jumper, blind pass. These are me. The moves make the man. The moves make me.

Jerome foxworthy -- the Jayfox to his friends -- likes to think he can handle anything. He handled growing up without a father....
The Last Safe Place on Earth
AuthorRichard Peck
ISBN0440220076
Todd, 15, thinks life in the quality community of Walden Woods is perfect, until Laurel, his dream girl, comes to babysit for his sister and reveals the forces of fundamentalism and censorship at work in the town.A provocative new novel by a highly honored author that speaks to today's issues of censorship...
Beyond the Desert Gate
AuthorMary Ray
Sequel to The Ides of April. Palestine in the first century A.D. is as disturbed and divided as it is today. The Jews have revolted against Roman occupation and as they grow more restive, Rome clamps down harder. The ten Greek cities of Palestine the Decapolis want only to continue their peaceful trading...
The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State
AuthorIsaac Kramnick
ISBN0393328376
The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the country's founders. The authors, both distinguished scholars, revisit the historical...
The Institutes of Biblical Law, Volume 1 of 3
AuthorRousas John Rushdoony
ISBN0875524109
Rousas John (R. J.) Rushdoony (1916-2001) was a well-known American scholar, writer, and author of over thirty books. He held B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California and received his theological training at the Pacific School of Religion. An ordained minister, he worked as a missionary...
The Seventeenth Swap
AuthorEloise Jarvis McGraw
ISBN0816710503
I read this book I-don't-know-how-many times as a kid, and loved it every time. For this year's reading challenge, I wanted to see if this simple 150-page story held up as well as I remembered, and guess what? It did!

This book is just so . . . satisfying. I love watching all the little pieces of the...
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems
AuthorFaiz Ahmad Faiz
ISBN0870239759
The Rebel's Silhouette is a collection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the most famous Urdu poets, translated by Agha Shahid Ali, many of them written while Mr. Faiz was in prison.

The word "Beloved" is often used in poetry and ghazals to refer to either a lover or to God. What the brilliant Mr....
Herstory : Women Who Changed The World
AuthorDeborah Gore Ohrn
ISBN0670854344
Women have long have been portrayed as sitting on the sidelines of history. Now 150 biographic sketches shed new light on such familiar figures as the Bronte sisters and Clara Barton, while revealing the rarely studied yet remarkable achievements of women warriors. Historical essays place these...
The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science: 64 Daring Experiments for Young Scientists
AuthorSean Connolly
Stand back! Genius at work!

Encase your little bother in a giant soap bubble. Drop mentos into a bottle of diet soda and stand back as a geyser erupts. Launch a rocket made from a film canister.

Here are 64 amazing experiments that snap, crackle, pop, ooze, crash, boom, and stink. Giant...
Chain of Fire
AuthorBeverley Naidoo
ISBN0064404684
The South African government is forcing Naledi an the other villagers to move to a new location: a "homeland" of iron huts and barren soil. And it seems that no one is willing to resist.

No one, that is, except Naledi's friend Taolo, whose family has often spoken out against apartheid. Taolo gives...
There's a Sheep in My Bathtub
AuthorBrian Hogan
ISBN0998611115
What happens when you drop an American family with three small children into the post-Communist chaos of Outer Mongolia? There's a Sheep in my Bathtub chronicles the adventures of the Hogan family as they try to follow God's leading into one of the world's most remote and mysterious enclaves. Brian...
Living on the Devil's Doorstep: International Adventures
AuthorFloyd McClung
ISBN0927545454
When thousands of young people checked out of Western society and sought enlightenment in the East, Floyd and Sally McClung set aside the comforts of American suburbia and answered God's call to reach out to them with the gospel. In Kabul, Afghanistan, a key stop on the hippy trail, and later in Amsterdam,...
Insatiable: The Compelling Story of Four Teens, Food and Its Power
AuthorEve Eliot
ISBN1558748180
Insatiable is an astonishingly moving story of four teenage girls whose shame, fear and confusion compel them to binge, purge and refuse to eat in misguided attempts to feel safe and in control of their lives. This incredible, imaginative story, written in episodic format, is based on real case histories...
The Dry Divide
AuthorRalph Moody
ISBN0803282168
Another in the line of books by author Ralph Moody about his journey to manhood.

Ralph has so much honor and integrity that whatever he touches blooms. How many young men today we put themselves through hard difficulties to take care of a woman and children they don't even know. A main theme in...
120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
AuthorNicholas J. Karolides
ISBN0816060436
If you ban a book or a movie or whatever, you just encourage me to read or otherwise check it out. That's what my dad taught me. There are books listed in this that are surprising and others I wasn't planning on reading (the Gossip Girl series). What's more surprising is some of the reasons for banning a book...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. Government and Politics
AuthorFranco Scardino
ISBN1592578535
The governed must know their government.

Understanding how our government functions and the political forces that influence it is vital for all Americans. As a comprehensive overview and history of the subject, this book is designed to help anyone interested in learning about our government...
Daring to Live on the Edge: The Adventure of Faith and Finances
AuthorLoren Cunningham
"Loren Cunningham's dream began with a vision--waves of young people moving out across the continents announcing the Good News of Jesus Christ. Decades later, Loren's vision has grown into an interdenominational movement of Christians from around the world who are dedicated to presenting the gospel...
But Don't All Religions Lead to God?: Navigating the Multi-Faith Maze
AuthorMichael Green
ISBN0801064392
We've all heard the rationale: "It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere." Or "All religions are pretty much the same." But are they the same? Does it matter which one you follow? In this insightful and compelling book, Michael Green invites readers into a relationship with Jesus...
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