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"A Woman of Courage Makes an Epic Journey Take a three-thousand mile journey with Amanda Pearson as she leaves the disgrace of a broken engagement and joins the work at a Quaker mission in the western wilds. The trip is fraught with danger, and Amanda is near death before reaching her destination. Among those she meets are an Indian woman who becomes her first convert and a half-Indian trapper who seems to be her biggest critic. But love follows her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
5) Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750: with their early history in Ireland
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1969
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War.
Publisher
E. Keener]
Pub. Date
1972
Language
English
Description
This thin volume contains copies and transcriptions of letters originally written to Nathan and Lydia Hinshaw and Herman Newman, between 1886 and 1905, concerning early day Quakers in the Rush County, Kansas, area. The originals of the letters are housed in various Kansas institutions.
Author
Series
Northern Shore Intrigue volume Volume 6
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Everyone calls her "the girl who had amnesia.” Though Jessie has found a safe place in the small townWinfield on the rugged shore of Lake Superior, the past still haunts her. Her best friend Chad carries his own emotional baggage. A violent attack on his great uncle shatters their peace. And his ex-con father is nowhere to be found. Kidnapped? Why? As the baffling mystery unfolds, Jessie and Chad draw closer. Will these best friends admit they’ve...
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Series
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
©1971
Language
English
Description
The story of the Quakers starts in Europe: Lancacashire, England, in the summer of 1652 when two horsemen blundered into the quicksands of Morecambe Bay. One of the horsemen was George Fox. The accident was see by Margaret Fell, owner of Swarthmoor Hall. From this meeting grew the Religious Society of Friends, and out of the Quaker history, Jan de Hartog has created this epic novel.
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Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Pub. Date
�2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionary War. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.
18) Centaur rising
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
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