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|  | | A Bible Book of Chess
Learn chess, from board to pieces to moves to strategy, using stories from the Bible.
"Daddy plays chess so Mummy can help," said our youngest son in second grade. So Mummy helped. I coached our tiny elementary school's chess team all the way to Nationals! Then we moved to the States and I coached kids in elementary, junior and even high school. But my kids grew up and left home. And then... our local church ran a summer camp and I got to revive my chess skills. Daddy still plays in serious tournaments, but I'll never be that good. Some of the kids I've taught might be though...
Fully illustrated in black and white throughout. | |  | | Bethlehem's Baby
Prepare for Christmas with 40 5-minute read-aloud stories set around the time of the Christ child's birth.
Meet the Emperor Augustus's rather nervous advisors, the wise men's research student, the shepherd boy whose grandfather keeps complaining of the noise (then angels sing), and a little girl asking "Are we nearly there yet?" on the road to Egypt. | |  | | Divide by Zero
Sometimes it takes a child to raise a subdivision.
It takes a subdivision to raise a child, and a wealth of threads to weave a tapestry, until one breaks. Troy, the garage mechanic's son, loves Lydia, the rich man's daughter. Amethyst has a remarkable cat and Andrea a curious accent. Old Abigail knows more than anyone else but doesn't speak. And in Paradise Park a middle aged man keeps watch while autistic Amelia keeps getting lost. Pastor Bill, at the church of Paradise, tries to mend people. Peter mends cars. But when that fraying thread gives way it might take a child to raise the subdivision...or to mend it.
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Gilded Prisons
by Linda Gould
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 Major League ballplayer Justin Moore is kidnapped from his own ballpark and transported to a foreign land. It might take high-level international negotiations to free him. Or maybe he will take matters into his own hands. |
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