Janette Oke
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Love comes softly series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A marriage of convenience blossoms into heartfelt love in a pioneer setting in the Old West. Fiction in the Little-House-on-the-Prairie tradition.
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Prairie Legacy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Her Character Has Been Shaped and Tempered by Both Adversity and Triumph... If Virginia could have chosen to accept or discard all the changes that came her way, she gladly would have let most of them pass right by herself and her family. She loved her life--living on the farm with her beloved Jonathan and their children, not far from her parents and her grandparents. But a change that is tearing at her heart is the gradual but steady physical decline...
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Series
When hope calls volume 1
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English
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"In the early twentieth century, Lillian Walsh rushes to a reunion after discovering the sister she believed dead is likely alive. But Grace has dreams beyond anything Lillian imagines. Can Lillian set aside her own plans and join her sister in an adventure that will surely change them both?"--Provided by publisher
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Series
When hope calls volume 3
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English
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"Lillian Walsh and Grace Bennett have learned so much already about caring for children in distress. It hasn't been easy, but it becomes even more difficult when they suddenly discover that three children have run away. Concerned for the trio's safety, the sisters will do all they can to find the children. But the runaways are not the only thing putting the future of the children's home in question. Lillian is faced with choosing between her dreams...
Author
Series
Prairie Legacy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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A girl on the Prairies is torn between loyalty to her parents and to a friend. Virginia is very much taken by adventurous Jenny, but her parents consider Jenny a bad influence and wish she would end the friendship. Virginia keeps stalling and is dragged into trouble by Jenny
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 9
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English
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She made the difficult decision with only her daughter's best interest in mind . . . but did she sacrifice too much? When her husband dies, Sarah Perry is left with no way to support herself and her daughter, Rebecca. Reluctantly, she takes over operation of her husband's freight-hauling business, managing to save enough money to send Rebecca east to a boarding school-- to an easier life and a future Sarah could not provide. With the boarding-school...
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English
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New Look for a Bestselling Author's Mother-Daughter Collaboration Erin Walsh thinks her family is as close to perfect as it can be. When one grim diagnosis is all it takes to shake her family to the core, she wonders if they can ever go back to they way they were. Erin's attempts to go about life as usual feel empty and as each member of her family seems to struggle alone, she is about ready to give up on God. However, Erin has yet to learn that God...
Author
Series
Prairie Legacy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A Tender Story of Faith and Love From Janette Oke... Countless fans of Christian fiction like you were thrilled when Janette Oke released her new series, A PRAIRIE LEGACY. Readers have been rewarded with a touching exploration of the feelings and thoughts of young Virginia Simpson as she grows to be a woman. With A Quiet Strength, bestselling author Janette Oke continues Virginia's tale with a heartwarming, romantic novel that mothers and daughters...
Author
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Prairie Legacy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The Yearning Deep Inside Her--to Go Somewhere, Discover Something, Be a Part of the World About Her in a New Way--Would Not Go Away. But What Would Satisfy It? In The Tender Years, Virginia Simpson managed to struggle through adolescence and was looking forward to stepping into adulthood. When her graduation day arrives, she walks to the podium as the class valedictorian to the proud grins of her grandparents, Marty and Clark Davis. College beckoned,...
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Series
Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 1
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English
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Twelve-year-old Joshua is an orphan who lives in an unusual family where his eighteen-year-old aunt also acts as his mother
11) Sustaining faith
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 2
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English
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"With more children on their way from England who need caring homes, Lillian and Grace Walsh must use every ounce of gumption to keep their mission alive. But when startling information about the past surfaces and a new arrival comes via suspicious circumstances, they'll have to decided what is worth fighting for and what is better left in God's hands"--
12) The matchmakers
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English
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In The Matchmakers, a young widow with two small sons feels very fortunate that her widowed father was there to help her care for the boys and make the adjustment since her husband's death. But now, a bit smothered by his caregiving, she feels ready to go on but is concerned about how to get him to step back a pace. A friend suggests a fine older widow in the church, who might divert his attention. The older widow has a son who appears rather distant,...
13) Roses for Mama
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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She's cared for her siblings as best she could . . . but is it enough? Instead of the new life she and her family expected to forge out west, seventeen-year-old Angela is thrust into the role of caring for her three younger siblings after the death of their parents. With the help of her older brother, and trust in God, Angela is determined to raise the children as her mother would have wanted. As the youngsters grow, the questions and challenges intensify....
14) Spunky's diary
Author
Series
Janette Oke's animal friends volume 3
Publisher
Bethany Backyard
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Spunky the puppy keeps a diary describing his daily life with the Dobson family, including the time he went to church and the day he got lost
15) Prairie dog town
Author
Series
Janette Oke's animal friends volume 7
Publisher
Bethany Backyard
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Flick, a curious young prairie dog, learns about the pleasures and dangers of life outside his family's underground home, as well as the importance of obeying his parents
16) Ducktails
Author
Series
Janette Oke's animal friends volume 6
Publisher
Bethany Backyard
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Quackery and his brother Zackery get bigger, they begin to question whether their parents always know what is best
Author
Series
Janette Oke's animal friends volume 11
Publisher
Bethany Backyard
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pordy is a young porcupine who seems to be afraid of everything, but when her mother is in trouble, Pordy must face her fears and try to help
Author
Series
Janette Oke's animal friends volume 9
Publisher
Bethany Backyard
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shandy the lamb, rejected by his mother and the other ewes, is cared for by a young boy until he is big enough to try to rejoin the flock of sheep
20) The Damascus way
Author
Series
Acts of faith volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In this riveting drama of the early church, Jacob, a young caravan guard, delivers messages among the new followers as he learns what it means to be a Christian--and to love and trust the young Greek girl who is neither accepted by the Jews or the Gentiles
Julia has everything money can buy...except for acceptance by either the Gentiles or the Jews. Her Greek father already has a wife and family, leaving Julia and her Hebrew mother second-class citizens....