fiction

After finding the courage to visit the special baby that has been born in a stable, a timid young hare discovers that even he has a gift for the child.

When chance brings Edward Tudor and Tom Canty together, they decide for fun to switch clothes and places. Exchanging their roles as heir of the throne of England and as a pauper's son, they learn how the other half really lives.

"September 1861: all is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in Abraham Lincoln's hands. And must make a fateful choice: save thousands of American lives or sacrifice the nation's future. The present: in Utah, the remains of a nineteenth century Mormon expedition that ended in murder have been uncovered. In Washington, D.C., the investigation of an international entrepreneur and Mormon elder has sparked a heated conflict between the White House and a powerful senator. In Denmark, a missing Magellan Billet agent is at the mercy of a zealot driven by divine visions. And Cotton Malone has suddenly gone from selling books to dodging bullets, plunged into a secret war set in motion more than two hundred years ago by America's Founding Fathers. From the streets of Copenhagen to the catacombs of Salzburg to the rugged mountains of Utah, a dangerous conspiracy is gathering power. And Cotton Malone must risk life, liberty, and his greatest love to uncover the stunning truth that could tear the United States apart."--from back cover.

A young slave girl on a Maryland plantation is led to freedom by Harriet Tubman.

Arriving in London in the 1860s, orphans Jack and Amy find themselves the prey of the worst elements of society until they receive aid from William and Catherine Booth and their Salvation Army people.

While traveling in the south of India, fourteen-year-old John and his mother encounter the Irish missionary Amy Carmichael and find themselves drawn into helping the work of the Dohnavur Fellowship.

After coming to China to work as a missionary in the early 1930s, Gladys Aylward adopts several orphans and tries to save nearly a hundred more during the war between China and Japan.

While searching for his younger brother who has been "sold" to be trained as a chimney sweep in eighteenth-century London, thirteen-year-old Ned meets the itinerant preacher John Wesley whose message changes the lives of his entire family.

Relates a number of events in the life of Christ from the viewpoint of animals who were present.