Youth Biography

Grade 9 Up Fredrick Douglass shares his encounters of life as a slave and his struggles he faced on the road to freedom. First published when he was 28 years of age after which he gained freedom. His life story portrays the unsympathetic, ruthless act...

Young Readers' Edition of Let Me Die in Ireland Sixteen-year-old Patrick felt the cool tingle of the wet grass on his feet as he strolled through his father s farm on a late spring morning. As was typical for the west coast of Britain, dense fog...

Peter Cook has a good life as a bound boy. Although a youth who has to do hard labor, his is treated like a son by his master. Everything changes the day that Peter discovers that his master has died of the dreaded disease, the black plague. Because...

The story of how the Gospel came to the Karen tribes in Southeast Asia. The people lived in the mountains and were persecuted by the Burmans. Their stories and songs spoke of the creation of the world by "Yuwah" and the first humans' disobedience and...

Mary L. Williamson gives a unique glimpse into the spiritual life and career of the first President of the U.S. Little known and often overlooked aspects of Washington's faith are featured throughout this well-documented book.

George Washington Carver was born a slave. He grew up to become a world-famous scientist. He discovered how to make the soil better for cotton crops in the South, where he was born, by planting peanuts and sweet potatoes. Then he invented hundreds of new...

In this collection of remarkable stories of young martyrs we read of courage and faith. In the midst of persecution they remained true to God and did not cease to witness for Him. In the face of death they not did quail but looked forward to seeing the...

Nature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817–62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ... learn what it...

FROM THE BOOK:"Faster, Jack, faster!" Wilfred Grenfell called to the lead dog in his sledge team. Jack needed no second reminder. He loved to go as fast as possible and he urged his team forward. Wilfred loved to go fast too, and felt a thrill as the...

William Tyndale lived a life of adventure and danger, dodging the king's men, fleeing from his enemies and meeting with smugglers in the dead of night. What brought a well-educated young English man to such a state? Was he an outlaw? Was he a thief? No -...

Why would a crippled old man slide down a hillside and wait by the side of the road every day for twenty years? Why would a slave and a witch doctor walk for three days to find a man called Jesus? Why would a lame man purposely walk to a tribe where he...

In 1938, in the remote highlands of a mountainous island, explorers discovered thousands upon thousands of tribal people. Missionaries began to come, to bring the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Little did they know that many of the people of...