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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Author
Publisher
Christian Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Eric Irivuzumugabe offers a personal, first-hand account of the Rwanda genocide. As a sixteen-year-old boy, Irivuzumugabe was forced to hide in a tree for over two weeks to escape his would-be killers. In less than four months, over 800,000 Rwandans lost their lives. Fortunately, Irivuzumugabe survived and now shares his harrowing tale.
Author
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Steve Mikita was 18 months old, he was diagnosed with Werdnig-Hoffman's Disease and given six months to live. But his parents had a different plan for their son. Instead of taking Steve home from the hospital to die, his parents took him home; Steve defied the odds and lived. He is now 53 years old and has outlived both his parents. Though he has spent his entire life in a wheelchair, he graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and received...
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Language
English
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In the closest thing we have to an autobiography, C. S. Lewis, an unfailingly honest and perceptive observer of self, here shares the story of his personal spiritual journey. With characteristic candor and insight, he describes how his "search for joy" led him from the conventional Christianity of his childhood to a youthful atheism, and finally back to an assured Christianity compatible with his formidable intellect. With no pretense, Lewis describes
...12) The hiding place
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Language
English
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Born in Haarlem, Holland, Corrie ten Boom assisted in the Nazi Resistance by helping Jews escape the regime. Arrested in 1944, Boom survived numerous death camps until the war's end. During these trying times, Boom relied on her unwavering faith in God. Here, Corrie ten Boom details her experiences with the war efforts.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Made for television documentary chronicles the C.S. Lewis story from his early days in Northern Ireland, through his acclaimed academic career at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, and his relationship with his wife, Joy.
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Publisher
Covenant Communications
Language
English
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Description
As a teenager, Hanny Londt-Shultz, together with her family, faced a grinding daily routine in a Japanese internment camp in Sumatra during WWII. But through the recognition of small miracles, the members of the Londt-Shultz family, though damaged, endure, and in spite of life-threatening challenges become saviors among their peers and courageous examples to their captors.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator E. B. Lewis give readers a fascinating glimpse into the childhood of Civil Rights leader John Lewis. John wants to be a preacher when he grows up--a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So...
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