Mary Weeks Millard
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An immensely enjoyable, fun Christian book for 7-11 year-old children. Perfect as a family bedtime story, or for confident readers to enjoy alone.
All Emily Jane wants for her birthday is a pair of fashionable boots, but instead she is given old-fashioned, fake crocodile-skin shoes. Alone in her bedroom, Emily Jane tries on the hated shoes. She hopes they might not fit so she won't ever have to wear them, but discovers that they hold an amazing...
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Shema is an eight-year-old Rwandan goatherd from a child-led family. His dream of becoming an airline pilot has moved one step closer, as he can now go to school – but he and his family and friends still have many exciting and dangerous challenges to face in the Village of Hope. Frida is tricked into leaving her brother and sister and becoming a domestic servant in the city; Sam is falsely accused of stealing; a football match has an uncertain ending;...
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Shema, an eight-year-old Rwandan goatherd from a child-led family, has many adventures, including a goat eating his only T-shirt, a frightening visit to a medicine man and a dangerously close brush with a spitting black cobra! Though them all, little by little Shema learns about "Mister God" and discovers that although he is in an orphan, he has a Father in heaven who cares for him.
A victorious, heart-warming story for 8-11s, with lovely background...
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Joshua and Timo's lives are about to change for ever. Their fathers are medical doctors and the boys have to leave their old lives behind to go and live in rural Rwanda with their families. Although at first they don't want to go, they meet Shema (from I Want to Be an Airline Pilot and Living in Hope) and a lad with disabilities and make friends – discovering through all their adventures together that God knows best.
The exciting sequel to I Want...
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A Pennyworth of Peppermints is a spy story for 8-11s, set in the First World War. While collecting driftwood on their local beach in Dorset, Ben and Sidney find a message in a bottle washed up on the shore. The message is written in rhyme - is it just a poem? Through a series of adventures, the boys, along with Sidney's twin sister, Vera, discover that there is much more to the message than meets the eye...This delightful story captures a little of...