Dave Jackson
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Series
Trailblazer books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
It is sometime during the 1880s, and Jack and Amy have come to London searching for their uncle. On their own without money, food, or shelter, they have nowhere else to turn. When those strange Salvation Army people approach them on the street, should they run away? Can the General and Catherine Booth be trusted?
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Trailblazer books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sarah Poyntz is the daughter of an English merchant who operates a shipping business from Antwerp, Belgium, in 1535. Her father is very interested in the ideas of William Tyndale, who has fled England as a condemned outlaw for refusing to stop his translation work of the English Bible. When Tyndale is captured and imprisoned, Sarah becomes the only hope for saving his life. If Sarah's desperate mission fails, her family is in peril of their lives....
3) Hero tales
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English
Description
Presents biographies of seventeen missionaries, evangelists, and other Christian heroes who worked courageously to share the Gospel with others.
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Series
Trailblazer books volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to Daytona, Florida, from Statesboro, Georgia, after the Ku Klux Klan burns down her father's business, eight-year-old Celeste Key becomes one of the first students at Mary Bethune's new school for African-American girls.
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Series
Trailblazer books volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the five missionaries who carried God's word to the fierce Aucas, or Huaorani, of Ecuador in 1956.
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Series
Trailblazer books volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1854, after being wounded while serving as a drummer in the British army in the Crimean War, twelve-year-old Robbie Robinson is cared for by Florence Nightingale and becomes involved in her efforts to improve the medical care of the sick and wounded soldiers.
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Series
Trailblazer books volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When he and his mother join the Fourpaugh Circus in 1893, fourteen-year-old Casey Watkins is certain that their lives will change for the better, but the real change comes when they meet the charismatic evangelist D. L. Moody.
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Trailblazer books volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1660, after his father is imprisoned in the Tower of London, Richard Winslow goes to stay with his uncle who is in charge of the Bedford jail. He meets and is helped by the Puritan preacher John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress.
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Trailblazer books volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Teenage Elizabeth Tilley, one of the colonists landing at New Plymouth on the Mayflower, sees her parents die from illness and wonders if God is punishing her for the terrible secret she carries.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In China in 1900, Chou Fu-lin, known as the Wolf Boy because of the scarred face he keeps covered with a mask, works for missionaries Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth, but when the Boxer Rebellion reaches Changte and they are forced to leave, he wonders if he has the courage to help them escape.
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Trailblazer books volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old slave Hamilton Jones finds himself unexpectedly a free man when his master dies while on a trip to England in 1775, and, bent on revenge, determines to seek out and kill the man responsible for capturing his mother and bringing her to the United States.
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Trailblazer books volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Jova, a seven-year-old Kru boy in Liberia and a captive slave of his people's enemy the Grebos, witnesses the dramatic conversion to Christianity of the Kru prince Kaboo and his subsequent disappearance; seven years later, in 1893, Jova sails to America to find Prince Kaboo and bring him back to rule his people.
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Trailblazer books volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Gilbert Hamilton is left alone on the frontier when his father is killed and his mother is kidnapped by Sauk Indians during the War of 1812. Haunted by memories of his mother, Gil attends a camp meeting led by Peter Cartwright, a Methodist circuit-rider evangelist. Cartwright allows the boy to move with his family to Illinois, where Gil can begin the search for his mother.
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Trailblazer books volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Betsey and Loren Maxwell attempt to fend for themselves after their mother is exiled for theft and they escape from a London workhouse.
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Trailblazer books volume 28
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Even as Idi Amin consolidates power in Uganda by murdering the Anglican archbishop, Janini Luwum, Bishop Festo Kivengere encourages young Yacobo Kabaza to write a play commemorating the centennial of the Church of Uganda, a production that endangers Yacobo's brother, Blasio, and the other cast members, but that witnesses to the power of their Christian faith.
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Trailblazer books volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alastair, a son of Christian missionaries on the Philippine island of Palawan, finds a way for Joy Ridderhof to record the Gospels in the native language.
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Trailblazer books volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1897 Adam Christian joins Sheldon Jackson's expedition to take food and supplies to hundreds of starving gold miners in the Yukon.
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Trailblazer books volume 32
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While held hostage on a pirate ship in 1700, thirteen-year-old Theo escapes with his sister and enlists the help of William Penn to rescue their mother.
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Trailblazer books volume 34
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When her best friend Ida moves to China with her missionary parents in the late 1800s, Mollie receives letters from her, including tales of Lottie Moon, a groundbreaking female missionary.
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Series
Trailblazer books volume 35
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Kevin Gilmore, a fourteen-year-old orphan, reluctantly joins the crew of a missionary ship leaving Australia in 1866, but when a hurricane strands him on a South Sea island and he is captured by slave traders, he finds the courage to trust in God.