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Language
English
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Mercy ... It's the permission you give others-- and yourself-- to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult. Lamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by "facing a great big mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves." It's up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhere-- "within us and outside us, all...
Author
Series
Viking quest volume 1
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bree asks God for protection when she and her brother Devin are captured and taken from their home on the Irish coast by Viking raiders in the late tenth century.
Author
Series
Viking quest volume 4
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
In the tenth century, as Devin, Keely, and Lil return to Ireland, Bree serves as Mikkel's cook on a voyage in the North Atlantic, but acts of sabotage threaten Mikkel's life and Bree's one chance of freedom.
Author
Series
Mandie book volume 19
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Mandie and her friends have a new mystery to investigate when strange sounds come from a seemingly abandoned fishing boat.
Author
Series
Viking quest volume 5
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Five years after taking Bree and her brother Devin from Ireland to serve as tenth century Viking slaves, Mikkel decides whether to keep his promise to return the pair to their home and restore their freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs to escape the madness that marks her world. With an abusive father and a "nothing mama," she struggles to find a place where she really belongs. For answers, Millie turns to the Gypsies who caravan through town each spring. The travelers lead Millie to a key which unlocks generations of shocking family secrets. When tragedy strikes, the mysterious contents of the box give Millie the tools she needs...
Author
Series
Viking quest volume 3
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Briana O'Toole arrives in Norway to face her new life as a slave, all the while praying that God will send her brother, still in Ireland, to buy her freedom.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Father Boyle started Homeboy Industries nearly 20 years ago, which has served members of more than half of the gangs in Los Angeles. This collection presents parables about kinship and the sacredness of life drawn from Boyle's years of working with gangs.
Author
Series
Viking quest volume 2
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In tenth-century Norway, Bree and her friend Lil, buoyed by their Christian faith, have escaped the Viking ship but are pursued by Mikkel; while in Ireland, Devin's anger about his sister's kidnapping prevents him from forgiving her captors.
12) Redeeming love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
California's gold country, 1850. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. He obeys God;s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Defying Angel's every bitter expectations, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But overcome by feelings of unworthiness and fear,...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang-intervention program in the world, through a series of moving stories that bear witness to the transformative power of tenderness, challenges ideas about God and about people.
Author
Series
Imagination station volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Beth and her cousin Patrick travel in Mr. Whittaker's invention, the Imagination station, to 1000 A.D. Greenland, where they meet Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson and witness the spread of Christianity in that country.
16) Sneak
Author
Series
Swipe volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a future United States under the power of a charismatic leader, thirteen-year-old Logan and his friends, a group of dissenters called the Dust, receive some startling information from the Markless community, opening their eyes to the message of Christianity and warning that humanity is now entering the End of Days.
17) Spark
Author
Series
Swipe volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Ali, a beggar living in the Dark Lands city of al-Balat, crosses paths with exiled Logan Langly, Chancellor Cylis, and the fierce battle for power that spans reality and the virtual world.
18) Storm
Author
Series
Swipe volume 3
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
While Logan and his friends, leaders of the Markless revolution, face Chancellor Cylis's army, the Dust seeks a cure for an epidemic sweeping through the Marked, Logan's sister Lily's allegiance remains unclear, and climatic changes become ever more threatening.