mennonites

"Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging ever closer to the flames. Coming of age in a remote and forested valley--a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands--she knows her destiny is to marry, have babies, and join the church ladies' sewing circle. But she feels an increasing urge to push the limits of her religion and the small town that cannot contain her desires for much longer"--From the publisher's web site.

Chronicles the history of the Mennonite faith from sixteenth-century Europe and the Reformation to the world's Anabaptists of the twenty-first century, and describes important figures, pastors, and events.

Shares the author's life story of living as a schoolteacher with Mennonite faith.

A. Martha Denlinger, a public school teacher in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, profiles the people in her Amish and Mennonites community.

When her Mennonite family moves to Upper Canada to avoid involvement in the Civil War, young Selina is given a special quilt to remember the grandmother she left behind.

Fourteen-year-old Anneli, confused by her father's decision to leave their Mennonite community in Brazil, change their names, and try to locate her mother who disappeared when she was five, feels isolated in the big city of Toronto, and, as she tries to figure out the unspoken codes of high school, she searches for her mom and answers.

Innkeeper Magdalena Yoder has her hands full investigating the murder of one of her guests, Buzzy Porter, and the disappearance of a centennial time capsule, at the bicentennial barbecue in Hernia, Pennsylvania.

Fourteen-year-old Sarah Heart describes how her self-absorbed, hypocritical uncle nearly destroys the Mennonite community over which he has become leader.

Sixteen-year-old Nomi struggles not to give in to despair when her mother and sister flee their home in East Village, a Mennonite community in Manitoba, leaving her in the care of her increasingly depressed father.