Books for Young Teens

To fifteen-year-old Bettje Weaver of Leeuwarden, reclaiming land from the sea was a concept she well understood. Near Leeuwarden were wide green polders that had once lain beneath the North Sea. Bettje knew the importance of strong dikes to keep the sea from pouring back over the land. Fear strikes her heart when a storm arises and the dikes began to leak. But leaking dikes are not the only danger threatening the...

This collection of stories follows teenage girls who faced challenges just like others, but who chose to honor their parents, learn from mistakes, and pursue a God-honoring path of enduring values. Be encouraged by their victories and instructed by their failures as you, too, put on the King's ornament of grace. Softcover, 140 pages

In this tender and deeply personal story of dashed hopes and broken dreams, Jenny shares in vivid detail her struggle to accept the journey God chose for her-a journey of faith through which she reluctantly embraced the lessons God had set before her, surrendering to His will and choosing to walk with Him, step by aching step, into the unknown. Through brokenness, she gained peace, comfort, even joy-and a far deeper...

Deputies ran from house to house, shouting to the people. "Y'all need to evacuate!" One yelled to a child. "Where's your mom and dad?" The child pointed. The deputy looked in that direction and they ran off together, the child and the deputy suddenly united by the adrenaline of escape. Down the road there were hurried fists on front doors. No polite pauses between knocks-these were desperate pounding crashes on top...

Eastward Trails Trilogy The old wooden bucket had drawn water from many of Europe’s rivers: the Rhine, the Inn, the Danube, the Vistula. Belongings had hastily been stuffed into the bucket as its owners were forced to flee from one country to the next. Time and again, Eva’s milk pail was used for baptism. In 16th-Century Europe, baptism was a dangerous activity. In this second book of the Eastward Trails...