Category: Ages 12-14
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Twice Freed
Author: Patricia St. John Recommended Age: 12-14 Date Published: 1970 Genre: Historical Fiction Summary: Onesimus is a slave who will do anything for freedom. When he is accused of stealing from a goldsmith, Onesimus knows that Archippus, his young master, is to blame. Determined for revenge, Onesimus’ actions lead to mistakes he would do anything to change. Notes from…
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The Secret of the Golden Cowrie
Author: Gloria Repp Genre: Contemporary, Mystery Recommended Age: 12-14 Date Published: 1988 Summary: When Connie Lawrence, her brother, and her mom go to visit her Aunt Laura, she stumbles into a mystery that could bankrupt her aunt’s home. As Connie desperately searches for the missing golden cowrie her uncle may have hidden before he died, she finds herself entangled…
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Morning Star of the Reformation
Author: Andy Thomson Recommended Age: 12-14 Date Published: 1988 Genre: Historical Fiction Summary: Young John Wycliffe and his friend, Sebastian Ayleton, are merely students at Oxford University in the 14th century. But as the years progress, they find a shared unity in the desire to translate a Bible into English that all men can read. But the religious and…
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Ink on His Fingers
Author: Louise A. Vernon Recommended Age: 12-14 Date Published: 1972 Genre: Historical Fiction Summary: Since the moment twelve-year-old Hans Dunne was accused of stealing type, he became enraptured with the new process of printing that men like Johann Gutenberg were using to print the Bible. But others are competing for the same technique. Can Gutenberg finish the Bible before…
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Kitty, My Rib
Author: E. Jane Mall Recommended Age: 12-14 Date Published: 1959 Genre: Historical Fiction Summary: Katharine von Bora is a Catholic nun with Protestant beliefs. When she and eleven other nuns attempt to escape the Nimbschem convent, they are punished for heresy. Desperate to escape, the women write to the Reformer, Doctor Martin Luther, with the request that he help…
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Authors: Richard & Florence Atwater Recommended Age: 8-11 Date Published: 1938 Genre: Humor, Adventure Summary: Mr. Popper is a housepainter with no jobs for the winter. When he writes to an Arctic explorer in the South Pole, his reply back is a live penguin! But how can the Popper family care for this bird, and how can they find money…