Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Religious - Christian - General

Six-year-old Mia misses her daddy who is serving in the military and deployed to Africa. While at Camp Gecko at her grandparents' ranch in central Texas, she learns about Africa and imagines waving to her daddy as she rides around in the safari's Ranger.

The best part about Camp Gecko is the new friends she makes -- children from a family of missionaries to Africa She learns of the hardships of missionary life while they inform people about God. Thankful the seven campers are only pretending to be in Africa, they go bowling, act in funny skits, make animal-shaped cookies, catch...

Five-year-old Thomas has a lot to complain about. Not only has his father left him in charge of a house full of girls while fighting the war in Iraq, but Thomas also has growing pains in his legs that awaken him in the middle of the night. Then he has an added fear when he overhears his mother talking about moving far away from their grandparents' Texas ranch to live in a city called El Paso.

How can they leave the ranch they love to be around city kids who don't know anything about country things? How can he leave his grandparents who need his help? And, how will his sisters Leah,...

"Baby Amos, I promise you that I will do my best . . ."
All Righty wants is to become a midwife to keep others
from feeling the pain of losing a baby. But without a school on
Henning's Island, how will she be able to keep her promise to her
stillborn baby brother?
"You ain't never goin' to be no hero "
Jimma's Old Man knows just what to say to beat him down.
Will he ever amount to anything?
In the year 1912, life in a lobster fishing village on an isolated
island off of the coast of Maine was hard. Here was no proper school,
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Try is a natural. She's amazing at whatever she does the first time she tries it--always. But one day Try finds something that she is not good at at all. Will Try quit? Or will she do what it takes to get better?