Youth Fiction

Charles and Mary Lamb's classic adaptations of Shakespeare's works have made the Bard accessible to millions of children. Believing that children should have access to more than mere morality stories, they set about giving the magnificent, "wild" stories...

Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award–winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals, witches, giants, and ordinary people in...

Aidan Errolson, comes from a long line of storied adventurers, but he never has any real adventures of his own. That, he believes, is the one great injustice of his otherwise happy life. All that will change the day he hears the bark of the bog owl and...

It was the beginning of March, 1572. Four years earlier Martin, along with his father and his father’s dear friend, Boudewyn, who was a blacksmith, had signed up on a Beggars’ ship in Emden . . .  This is reading for Reformed children,...

In Anita Williams’ whimsical fiction, The Captain’s Hat, Pedro and Spud explore the Big River, romp through a wild and tangled green jungle, and discover a huge dark ship half buried in the sand. But all the while, Pedro’s real...

After John's mother died, Uncle Louis and Aunt Mary were taking care of him. His father had been sent to the galleys and his sister Manette to Paris. When Uncle Francis, who was the local priest, wanted to send John to a cloister, John decided to flee to...

Silence speaks volumes! G. Campbell Morgan takes what most would consider a moot point and brings to life one of the mysteries of the life of Jesus Christ. Where was Jesus between the ages of twelve and thirty? Morgan's keen eye and discerning mind...

While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.

This little book is a powerful challenge, sending a quickening jolt to the very depths of some of the respectable-looking facades that we can put on. The Mansion takes a piercing look at John Weightman, one of the most “successful”...

Description One cloudy afternoon a big whirlwind came through the meadow. The whirlwind lifted the tumbleweed into the air and whirled him around and around and around. What fun! Up and up and up he swirled. As the tumbleweed ascended to the very top of...

King Darrow sends Aidan Errolson on an impossible quest, hoping he will never return, and although Aidan has enough friends to succeed on the journey, even he might not be able to defeat the powerful enemy that awaits him at its end.   No one has...

The Secret of the Swamp King by Jonathan Rogers and illustrator, Joe Hox, This is book 2 of the 20th-anniversary edition of the Wilderking Trilogy. Aidan Errolson is now living in the court of King Darrow, but the king is spiraling into suspicion and...