Youth Biography

Based on the true account of a boy's harrowing journey through the vast wilderness of the Katahdin Mountains, Lost on a Mountain in Maine is a gripping survival story for all ages. Twelve-year-old Donn Fendler steps away from his Boy Scout...

Have you ever wanted to travel the world? Perhaps you’d like to visit far away countries and discover all about the people who live there? What if instead, you’d like to have adventures closer to home? Well this book is for you! Meet some...

Experience thrilling adventure as the Christian missionaries on these pages meet witch doctors, disease, drought, hate-filled guerillas, a Bible thief, and killer cats. Each story is based on actual happenings from the lives of real people.

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...

Bestselling, Timeless Book Now Abridged for Young Readers Corrie ten Boom was loved the world over for her heroism and remarkable faith. The first of her bestselling books, The Hiding Place, tells the riveting true story of how her gentle Dutch family...

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...