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Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning, Katie - now Katherine Mayfield - sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known. Her journey takes her to the peaceful home of Lydia Miller, where electric lights and telephones sets Katherine's mind whirling with "fancy"...
Author
Series
Courtship of Nellie Fisher volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Church Split Has Not Extinguished Their Love, But the Demands of One Man Still Stand in Their Way... Caleb Yoder's father has forbidden him to court Nellie Mae Fisher, but words alone cannot stop Caleb's devotion. Yet if he continues to pursue Nellie, he risks losing everything. Nellie, too, is torn. She longs to marry her Old Order beau but cannot ignore the gentle pull she feels toward the faith of her New Order family. Can she and her beloved...
3) The shunning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of her wedding Katie Lapp discovers she is not the birth daughter of her Amish parents but their adopted daughter. After finding out the truth she knows she must find her birth mother no matter what the cost.
4) The parting
Author
Series
Courtship of Nellie Fisher volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The People themselves dare to challenge the Old Ways of their heritage...and each patriarch must choose a side. Nearly one hundred days have passed since the untimely death of Nellie Mae Fisher's beloved younger sister, Suzy, and Nellie dares again to dream of a future with handsome Caleb Yoder. But with rumors about Suzy still flying among the People, there are those who would keep the young courting couple apart...including Caleb's own father. Meanwhile,...
5) The covenant
Author
Series
Abram's daughters volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book 1 of Abram's Daughters series from bestselling author Beverly Lewis. Years of secrecy bind the tiny community of Gobbler's Knob together more than the present inhabitants know, and the Plain folk who farm the land rarely interact with the fancy locals. So when Sadie is beguiled by a dark-haired English boy, it is Sadie's younger sister, Leah, who suffers from her sister's shameful loss of innocence. And what of Leah's sweetheart, Jonas Mast,...
Author
Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Powerful Conclusion to The Shunning and The Confession! Katherine Mayfield, the new Mistress of Mayfield Manor, always dreamed of a fancy "English" life. But as the seasons pass, she finds herself grieving the loss of her Amish family and her dearest friend, Mary Stoltzfus. Shunned for the Plain life she once knew, Katherine finds solace in volunteer work with hospice patients - a labor of love she hopes will bring honor to the memory of her birth...
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a Winter Ball that was a mix of fun and worry, seventeen-year-old DJ sets aside her hope for a quiet Christmas and joins Taylor in Las Vegas, although she fears she will do nothing but try to keep her roommate out of trouble.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland and her family who helped hide Jewish people. The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland & her family who helped hide Jewish people. Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it...
Author
Series
Publisher
th1nk books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Ramona learns that her best friend since grade school is a lesbian, she struggles to decide how to respond, knowing that people of her community, and even her church, have trouble discussing homosexuality civilly.
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Honor student and future journalist Sophie, a seventeen-year-old senior, was pressured to break her purity pledge and fears she is pregnant, but is unable to go to her parents, friends, pastor, or even God for help.
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Silent Night, America's most beloved writer of suspense has crafted a very special story about the power of love, and of a child's courage and faith. When her husband was diagnosed with leukemia, Catherine Dornan and their two young sons accompanied him to New York, during the Christmas season, for a life-saving operation. Hoping to divert the boys from worry about their father, and to temper her own near despair, on Christmas Eve Catherine takes...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty-something Gretchen Hanover becomes a first-time house-flipper. As ideas go, it's daring and genius. She'll take out a short-term loan, buy a fixer-upper, renovate it, resell it, and use the profit for an adorable house of her own. But Gretchen's plans to flip quickly flop when the house turns out to be in worse shape than she expected. She is relying on her retired contractor-father, but he wants to draw in his carpenter friend Noah Campbell....
Author
Series
True colors (Melody Carlson) volume 2
Publisher
NavPress
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A Christian high school girl considers having sex with a former boyfriend in order to win him back.
Author
Series
True colors (Melody Carlson) volume 7
Publisher
TH1NK Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ruth copes with an abusive situation at home by cutting herself, until her high school counselor helps her get the treatment she needs to start a new life.
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Aster, caught between a self-absorbed older sister and a mentally-disabled younger one, yearns for a normal life and, with her first boyfriend's encouragement and trust in God, she begins to make things better.
Author
Series
True colors (Melody Carlson) volume 9
Publisher
TH1NK Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Originally trying to lose only a few pounds, seventeen-year-old Emily's weight loss spins out of control as she develops eating disorders until she decides that trusting in God and her friends can help her regain her health.
Author
Series
True colors (Melody Carlson) volume 5
Publisher
NavPress
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a pastor justifies going to drinking parties as helping others, disregarding the feelings of real friends.
Author
Series
Publisher
TH1NK Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Reagan Mercer is just trying to fit in at her new high school when she bumps one of the most popular girls from the cheerleading squad, but when she eventually becomes part of the in-crowd, she finds their behavior--and her own--disturbing. Includes discussion questions.
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