Youth Biography

Boys of Grit who Became Men of Honor (Rare Collector's Series) portrays true accounts of young boys who overcame great obstacles to become admirable men. Born to poverty, slavery, blindness, and various trials when others saw only difficulties, these...

Did you know that a simple blacksmith mastered twenty foreign languages primarily because he valued every spare moment of his time? Discover the accomplishments of a highly motivated young man whose entrepreneurial spirit started a revolution in...

You can measure the strength of a man by measuring what it takes to stop him. Thomas Edison always viewed failure as being one step closer to success. The eighteen men whose lives are put on display in Boys of Grit Who Never Gave Up did not let failures...

Stories of courageous men and women provide examples for students to follow. Selections are centered around five themes: So Many Things to Learn, Contentment, Courage, In All Thy Ways, and Responsibility. Illustrated with colorful paintings. Calls to...

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...

Product Description Charles Spurgeon was a simple country lad who went on to become one of the best known preachers in London, Europe and the world. Caught in a snowstorm one day when he was a teenager, he crept into the back of a church and the...

Natasha's father is a leader in the underground church of the Soviet Union. When Georgi Vins is forced to spend time in hiding and in prison, Natasha looks to her beloved grandmother for spiritual guidance, but in her teens Natasha reaches a spiritual...

Product Description This book is the true life story of one of the most amazing Christian women of the 20th century, Corrie ten Boom. Jean Watson tells us about the hardships and punishment she endured at the Nazi concentration camp, and about her...

Product Description Learn about the life of David Brainerd, from his teenage years on a farm; his expulsion from Yale; to his preaching on the frontier to his death in his late twenties. This early American missionary felt compelled to share the...

Journey alongside one of Christianity’s most courageous pioneers in Vance Christie’s biography for pre–teens. Born into humble beginnings in Scotland in 1813, Livingstone’s faith and passion for exploration shaped his...

The life of David Livingstone clearly testifies to the fact that God can change the direction of history through the life of just one soul. Well over one hundred years have passed since this famous missionary to Africa departed this earth. Read this...