The Blue Jeans Rebellion • An Early Readers Novel
by Joanna H. Kraus The story is set in 1877 in Orderville, Utah, a planned Mormon community. Many of the families who volunteer to live there had been starving before they came and so they willingly agree to all the rules and regulations. One specifies that until the clothing you wear is worn out you must not apply for anything new. Eleven-year old Gideon wonders why everyone has to dress in the same drab gray clothes and annoyed that though his pants are too short, his application is denied. He’d heard about the new transcontinental railroad that went clear across the country. As silver pours from the earth and the railroad flashes its glitter across the continent, brand new products arrive in the west. One day making a delivery of sheep’s wool to the General Mercantile Store he sees, for the...
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An Allagash Haunting: The Story of Emile Camile — An Allagash Tail – Volume 2
Book 1 in the North Maine Woods Trilogy (Olivia’s Journey) of The Allagash Tails Collection by Tim Caverly Illustrations by Franklin Manzo, Jr “A damping cloak of darkness approaches . . .” A violent Thunder storm is building and ten-year-old Olivia is canoeing and camping deep in the Maine woods. Travel with Olivia and her family as she learns about one of our nation’s wild rivers and discovers an unknown secret about her mother; when she comes face to face with the last thing anyone could expect. The three of books in THE NORTH MAINE WOODS TRILOGY (all about Olivia’s Journey): Book 1: An Allagash Haunting: The Story of Emile Camile Book 2: A Wilderness Ranger’s Journal: Rendezvous At Devil’s Elbow Book3: Headin’ North: A Tail of Two Diaries These three books are part of the greater collection...
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Enoch In the City of Adam — Volume 1
by J. L. Thompson Watchers, fallen angels, demons, giants, raiders, armies and Father Cain — what can a boy of little promise do? Enoch in the City of Adam chronicles the early years of young Enoch. As a mere “lad” Enoch is not the most obvious choice to lead his people, being smaller and weaker than most of the young men of his village and having a speech impediment that makes him appear weak to many. Nonetheless, Father Adam recognizes in him one who will rise to the call to help his people when perilous times threaten on the horizon. Technological implementations and diabolical deceit were destroying the people, their civilization, and the very planet, and Enoch sought feverishly to gather out those who would listen to his message before the end came crashing down on them in...
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Eve of the Fourth: Between the Round Tops
An Historical Fiction/Young Adult Fiction A book for Young Readers (aged 11 and up) about one of their own during the Civil War. by James F. Oshust List Price $9.95 A sixteen-year-old in the middle of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War A story of unsuspected courage. In late June of 1863 two armies converge on an unremarkable field in southern Pennsylvania where Tom Burns, a sixteen-year-old Union soldier becomes enmeshed in three of the Civil War’s bloodiest days. But Tom knows something no one else does. Something that his commanding officers realize may help them gain an advantage in the coming battle — wherever it is to be fought. But all Tom wants is to return home on the 4th of July, however briefly, to the place he has always known as home — Gettysburg. Reading...
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Dark Angel
by Robert Kirby Retail Price: $12.95 A novel about Mormons, by a Mormon, but not only for Mormons! This is the exciting coming-of-age story of Rose Lee Merrell, an 11 year old girl in the years soon after the Civil War. She is the colorfully outspoken daughter of a Mormon Bishop in 1869 Utah Territory. Everything around her cannot escape her critical eye or mouth. She is a typical child, girl or boy, at the brink of adulthood. She’s all tomboy and wonder — wonder about becoming a woman, as her older sister is already; wonder about God and his part in her life; wonder about the Stranger who is suddenly thrust into her path on a lonely road through her fervent, frightened girl’s prayer. Rose’s life is changed forever by this man no one seems to know, except...
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