Allen French Illustrated By Andrew Wyeth The Sauval brothers have begun to terrorize their neighbors in an attempt to bring the area under their control. They raid the Red Keep, in hope of gaining it for themselves, only to be thwarted by Sir Roger and young Conan. Now they plot anew to steal the Keep from its rightful owner, Lady Anne. She sets out, with Conan and her loyal followers, to …
Percy Winn is one of "Fr. Finn's Famous Three"- Tom Playfair, Percy Wynn and Harry Dee . These were the most popular of Fr. Finn's 27 Catholic novels for young people. Resembling a Catholic version of Charles Dickens' stories, or even The Hardy Boys, these books were read by hundreds of thousands of young people in the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th century. Their quaint …
Catholic Stories For Boys & Girls (In four volumes) These happy and courageous stories were compiled and written by Catholic nuns in the 1930's. Styled to interest school-aged children, they will warm the hearts even of parents and grandparents. Excellent when read by children, even better when read to children by parents and older brothers and sisters. Stories of Our Lady, Good Deeds, the …
Maureen Daly Illustrated by Wesley Dennis Timeline 1944, Italy Donkeys by the hundreds! Twelve-year-old Chico Filippo, whose own donkeys were confiscated years before by the German army, can’t stay away from the newly set up American Remount Depot. Here, in the last months of World War II in Italy, thousands of supply mules and donkeys are processed and sent onto the fierce mountain fighting …
Christine Marlin Illustrated by Hilda van Stockum T HIS SHORT FULLY ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE takes us into the eternal present of one absorbing series of moments in a child's life. Expect to smile as young Pamela prepares and carries out an activity she has carefully thought through. A book to read aloud, it is written by Christine Marlin with the same attentive understanding of children as the …
Eva K. Betz This is an exciting historical novel about the then famous Father Farmer’s life and experiences in colonial America. The story starts in New Jersey where the priest encounters much danger and excitement while riding circuit, providing Mass and the sacraments to people who had not heard Mass for years. But the main story surrounds Father Farmer’s adventures helping a man solve the …
It is 1769, ten years since America’s colonial militia had joined with the British regular army and defeated the French for dominion of Canada. The current feeling about what it means to be loyal to the King has changed. While many colonists are angry about England’s unjust taxation, wealthy merchant John Treegate remains fiercely loyal and certain that an agreement can be reached …
Edmund A. Walsh This unique little “novel” will be a refreshing treat to all who read this beautifully written book. It is the story of a woodcarver’s family in the Tyrol area (Brenner Pass) in the mountains of northern Italy. Maria Manzl and her son Konrad are you and your son, or you and your mother, so universal is this wayside tale of love, selflessness and religious devotion. A …
Constance Savery The Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of a British family to whom an American prisioner of war has been entrusted. Technically the young prisioner is in Uncle Lawrence's custody, but the children soon forge a forbidden friendship with him. He becomes The Reb and they, his Redcoats. After the Reb nearly dies, even Uncle Lawrence, embittered by the unjust death of a …
Graham Carey This charming book is enjoyed by all ages, but it is very special to the young—whether it is read to them or they read it themselves. Entertaining, humorous and educational, this book contains 30 stories on 30 animals describing what they do and don’t do with their tails—from horses, cats, dogs, porcupines, whales, racoons, pheasants, foxes, snakes, kangaroos, opossum, monkeys, …
Herminie Templeton Kavanagh Illustrated by Ted Schluenderfritz Old as Ireland but written down only a century ago, these whimsical Irish folktales bring you the jumble and tumble of men and magical creatures who walk the lanes of the Emerald Isle by day and wander its fields by night. Henpecked husbands scheme to get rich; ghosts roam the land seeking rest. There are fortune-tellers and …
Sun Slower, Sun Faster Meriol Trevor This is an adventure story with a difference—it is soon after World War II, and Cecil (short for Cecilia) along with her cousin, Rickie, are thrown into a series of adventures that have little to do with the England that they know. Inexplicably, they and their eccentric tutor, Dominic, find themselves in another time. With every dip into time they …
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