Neta Jackson: 66 books

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Governor William Bradford. Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Tilley and her family have been waiting for this day for months—the day the Mayflower sets sail from England. The late start means uncertain weather and a long, hard...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Rómulo Sauñe. Bandits are a regular threat to the small Peruvian village Alfredo Garcia lives in. Government protection is scarce and the police never enforce the law. So the village men take it upon themselves...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Elizabeth Fry. Betsey and Loren Maxwell are on their own in early nineteenth-century England after their mother is deported to New South Wales for stealing two silver candlesticks. Faced with few options, the young Maxwells...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing John G. Paton. Working at the docks is a dangerous occupation--especially for someone who doesn't know how to swim. But it's all Kevin Gilmore can do to keep himself and his ailing mother afloat. When Kevin is suddenly fired...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Martin Luther Karl Schumacher was fifteen when he came to the German city of Wittenberg in 1520 seeking an education. He had been very fortunate that the esteemed university professor Doctor Martin Luther, had taken him into...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing George Washington Carver. To fourteen-year-old Jesse Turner, being “free” in Alabama in 1898 doesn’t seem much better than slavery. The Turners’ forty-acre farm—given to them by the government following the Civil...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Chief Spokane Garry. A great sickness has swept through the Indian nations, killing several of the Spokane tribe and many others from neighboring tribes. The faith of the Spokane is nearly broken when they realize the smallpox...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth. In the Chinese city of Changte, Chou Fu-lin is known simply as "Wolf Boy." Plagued by recurring nightmares of a childhood accident, Fu-lin hides more than his face behind his carefully...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Mary Slessor. Imatu had seen white people in her village in West Africa, but only when they came to sell liquor, guns, and slave chains. One rainy day, Imatu was sent to find a goat that had run away from the village. But...

Over 200 stories of God's faithfulness to men and women who weathered the worst. We live in difficult times! And yet . . . throughout history people of faith have endured tragic circumstances and even martyrdom with extraordinary courage and heroic faith. How? Why? What can we learn from them...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introduced Hudson Taylor. Neil Thompson had promised his grandmother that he would wait for his grandfather to bring him to see the great oceangoing ships at the docks in Liverpool, England. But when he convinced himself that it was...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Florence Nightingale. After their father dies, Robbie Robinson and his older brother, Peter, join the British army in order to make a living for their family. At first, army life is exciting, even fun. Then in 1854, they...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Peter Cartwright 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. The orphaned boy is taken to Kentucky to live with his wealthy...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Amy Carmichael From the moment he and his mother arrived from England, everything about India shouted adventure to fourteen-year-old John Knight. Crowds of people swarmed in the streets, temple elephants paraded about, monkeys...