Family Ties: Thirteen Short Stories
Diane M. Lynch, Editor
Paperback, 112 pp., $7.95
Pauline Books & Media (May 2010)

This collection features stories about the rewards—and the challenges—of family life. While family interaction isn’t always easy, healthy, strong family relationships are vital to the development of every child. Family Ties provides engaging stories for children that they will relate to and enjoy. The stories entertain and educate by providing discussion questions to keep children thinking and reading.

Anna Mei, Cartoon Girl
Carol A. Grund
Paperback, ?? pp., $8.95
Pauline Books & Media (2010)

It’s not easy being eleven-especially for Anna Mei Anderson. Not only is she the new kid at school, but she has a weird name, she’s Chinese, and she’s adopted. As one of her new classmates points out, she and her family don’t even “match.” Can the support of her faith, her family, and her friends help her discover where she fits in?

The Haunted Cathedral
Anthony Barone
Paperback, 212 pp., $15.95
OakTara (April 10, 2008)

Mystery. Danger. Adventure. It’s all here. And true forgiveness and courage too. The road to Lincoln is perilous for the orphan Xan and Brother Andrew. Accompanied by a dangerous prisoner, struggling with doubt and unable to forgive his parents’ murderer, Xan will face his greatest challenge yet. But will it come from within himself, or from the dark cathedral, which is rumored to be haunted? This is the thrilling sequel to the critically acclaimed Shadow in the Dark, Book 1 of The Chronicles of Xan.

Awakening
Claudia Cangilla McAdam
Paperback, 160 pp., $14.95
Sophia Institute Press (September 30, 2009)

Fear drives me forward as I rush down a rocky path in Jerusalem, trying to sort things out. Am I an American girl, cast back to the time of Jesus? Or a delusional Jewish teen, plagued with visions of a place called America? I don’t know anymore. But I do know that something awful is about to happen to my Jesus: they’re going to kill him. No one believes me; they think I’m crazy. So it’s up to me to save him, hurrying down this dark path toward Gethsemane, toward the turning point of all history… toward the uncertainty of whether I can actually manage to change the future.

Shadow in the Dark
Anthony Barone
Paperback, 152 pp., $15.95
OakTara (March 31, 2007)

A young boy loses his memory in the wake of a bandit attack. He wakes up at a Benedictine monastery and is given the name Xan, short for Alexander. But when the monastery is raided and a monk is accused of a violent crime, Xan must uncover the truth. Could the raid be related to the one that destroyed his village? And what about the shadowy figure Xan has seen lurking on the abbey grounds at night? Well-researched and historically accurate, Shadow in the Dark combines action, mystery, and suspense with forgiveness and courage.