Juvenile Fiction
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Sawdust In His Shoes
$9.95Add to cartAn outsider becomes a hero and a boy becomes a man in this classic coming-of-age tale from the heyday of the three-ring circus, by three-time Newbery winner Eloise Jarvis McGraw.
The circus is all young Joe Lang knows. The third generation of a circus family, he becomes a star bareback rider by the time he turns fifteen. But when his father, a lion-tamer, is killed by one of his cats, Joe becomes an orphan and is sent away to a vocational school while the law decides whether or not Mo Shapely, an old clown, is a fit guardian for him. Meanwhile, the circus moves on. Joe escapes from the school and stumbles into the farm life of the Dawson family, who take him in. Mistrustful at first, Joe grows to love farming and his foster family. Faced with prejudice as an outsider in a closely-knit rural community, he closely guards the secret of his past–until the day his extraordinary acrobatic talent is called for to save a life. Joe earns respect, but there is still circus is in his blood, sawdust in his shoes. Will he ever be happy away from his former life with the greatest show on earth?
The debut novel of three-time Newbery winner Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Sawdust in His Shoes is reminiscent of Ralph Moody’s Little Britches and Man of the Family, Roahl Dahl’s Danny the Champion of the World, Sid Fleichman’s The Whipping Boy, and Walt Morey’s Run Far, Run Fast. Rediscover another great read-aloud treasure from the golden age of the children’s novel.
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Hat Girl : A Sequel To A Box Of Hats
$14.99Add to cartNan’s hair is just starting to grow back after her chemo treatments. To keep her head from feeling cold, she wears a hat to school every day. She has a problem, though-some of the children tug her hats off and tease her about not having hair. After telling Nan to take her hat off in class, the substitute teacher realizes why Nan is wearing it, but not before the teasing starts again. When Nan tells her mother about it, they talk about Nan’s courage when dealing with her illness and how she could use that courage to work out a solution.
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Hope For Allis
$14.99Add to cartTwelve-year-old Allister McRuer can’t wait to attend the brand new, one-room schoolhouse that he, his father, and brothers helped to build on a corner of his family’s pioneer homestead in southwestern Manitoba.
There was no school within walking distance when Allister and his family first arrived in May of 1892. More than a year has passed, and Allister worries that he has forgotten everything he learned at his school in eastern Canada. Will he and his twin brother, Jim, ever be able to catch up?
Allister’s excitement quickly turns to frustration. His new teacher doesn’t seem to know how to handle sixteen children in Grades 1 through 8. What chaos! And his father continually pulls Allister and Jim out of school to help with the harvest or to build on their older brothers’ homestead claims. How are he and Jim going to pass any grade?
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Adventures With Theophilos Pott
$14.95Add to cartIn the strange and wondrous land of Everlight, a battle rages . . .
Five children learn a family secret that takes them into the land of Everlight–a strange and wondrous place of talking tigers, a dragon that must undo a terrible wrong, and one Theophilos Pott who helps the children not just read a story but be the story.
Come along with Theophilos, an ageless bookstore owner, into his doorway to this mysterious land. Join thirteen-year-old Felicia, sisters Mallary and Sara, nine and eight; ten-year-old twins James and Jeremy; Samson the talking tiger, and Princess Gwyn, as they become a part of a battle far larger than themselves.
As spreading darkness threatens to destroy the power of the Light, the children come to the aid of Princess Gwyn, learn to face difficulties with courage, the value of friendship, and how to live a life of purpose.
Five children learn to listen with their hearts to truly see.
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Bell Of Forgiveness
$9.99Add to cartKate Goodness: The Bell of Forgiveness is the third book in the Kate Goodness series. This newest release, focusing on forgiveness, follows The Power of the Heart and The Fortress of Love. Journey with Kate and her friends as she seeks to bring unity to two canines struggling with hurt feelings. A wonderful reminder of the power of forgiveness!
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When God Made You
$11.99Add to cartDo you know God made you? Heavenly-inspired, but fully one-of-kind?
God imagined your eyes, your head’s shape and size
And knew what you’d look like when you felt surprised.In this brightly illustrated, rhyming book, readers aged three to eight will discover that the wonder of being a uniquely-created part of God’s plan. Young children began to wonder where they fit in their own families, amongst friends, and in the big world. They will be completely captivated by the whimsical wordplay and finish the book encouraged that God knows their gifts and delights in their being fully themselves-unique creations!
‘Cause when God made YOU and the world oohed and aahed
In heaven they called YOU an image of God -
Mysterious Island : The Final Chapter
$13.99Add to cartIntroducing The Final Chapter of a three book series. Glitter Girl and Water Girl had just become mission leaders. On a nice beautiful day in Hero World both the girls were just strolling down the streets when all of the sudden they are thrown into a secret island.
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Most Dangerous Mission
$12.99Add to cartFreezer has just decided to leave with Jealousness to Villain World. In Villain world there was a evil scientist who’s name was Dr. Scuttle, he turned Freezer into a villain. After a long transformation and a evil scheme the hero’s went to save Freezer. Will the Hero’s be able to save the world and Freezer from being under X-Finney’s control? The Most Dangerous Mission was written by H. Madison at age 13.
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Curio
$10.99Add to cartGrey Howard always tried to stay unnoticed. At least as unnoticed as a tall, strong girl can in a town of diminutive, underdeveloped citizens could be. She detests the Chemists, the magicians-come-scientists who rule her small western town. But she obediently takes the potion the Chemists ration out-a concoction that is supposed to help her and the rest of the town’s people survive each day. Then her best friend, Whit, is caught by Chemist enforcers, and Grey feels everything shift inside her. Especially after Whit is severely punished for reasons that go beyond his minor infraction. Little does Grey know, her growing defiance has a greater meaning. And when her rebellion leads her to the family shop one night, a treaty is accidentally broken. Grey then finds herself transported to a world within an ancient curio cabinet, where the porcelain figures are real, and a strange man known as the Mad Tock beckons to her. To escape, she must find a key-one that could end the Chemist’s dark rule forever.
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Boy Called Allis
$14.99Add to cartEleven-year-old Allister McRuer’s fears materialize when he and his family arrive at their Manitoba pioneer homestead in 1892. What could make it worse? Being called Allis. During the trip from Lachute, Quebec to Cherry Creek, Manitoba, Allister shares a train boxcar with three of his brothers and all of their family’s livestock. The closer he gets to the homestead his father and oldest brother, John, started three years ago, the worse Allister’s misery gets as older brother, Will, torments Allister by calling him “Allis,” a name he hates because it sounds like “Alice.” Allister’s first hour in Cherry Creek does little to ease his concerns. While their brothers unload the McRuers’ two boxcars, Allister and his twin brother, Jim, explore the town. Allister is discouraged at the small size of the local school, wondering how he will ever finish grade eight. As they continue walking, Allister and Jim witness a terrible accident. Although they’re able to help a horse and an injured driver, Allister’s anxiety over his family’s move to the prairies takes a new turn when he’s told that the only doctor within seventy miles is out of town on another call. Who can he get to help them?
