Bethlehem Children's Fiction

The Winged Watchman
by Hilda van Stockum

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, ten-year-old Joris and his older brother Dirk Jan become involved in the resistance movement and, with the help of their parents, help conceal a British airman.

Ages 10+

Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 191 pages

Jeanne Bendick, through text and pictures, admirably succeeds in bringing to life the ancient Greek mathematician who enriched mathematics and all branches of science. Against the backdrop of Archimedes' life and culture, the author discusses the man's work, his discoveries and the knowledge later based upon it. The simple, often humorous, illustrations and diagrams greatly enhance the text. 135pp

'The year is A.D. 781. King Charles of the Franks is crossing the Alps with his family and court on a journey to meet with Pope Hadrian. One frosty night he speaks to his young son Carl: When we come to Rome you will know that I am naming you my heir. One day you will rule over all my lands. . . . But the King already had an heir, Pepin the Hunchback, mockingly called Gobbo. Was he to be dispossessed? Yet Carl sees that Charlemagne is determined to do what he feels is best to serve God and Europe. 183pp'

' 17 year old Paula, who has just left a convent boarding school to go home, must learn how to deal with the everyday dilemmas of growing up. Set in 19'

The Miracle of St Nicholas
by Gloria Whelan

It was the day before Christmas in a small Russian village. Alexi's babushka was telling him what Christmas was like when she was a girl-before the soldiers came. "Our church was as crowded as a pod full of peas. Candles made the church as bright as the sunniest day. Watching over us was the blessed icon of St. Nicholas." Alexi had many questions, including, "Why can't we celebrate Christmas tomorrow in St. Nicholas?" Babushka sadly replied that it would take a miracle after sixty years. Well, Alexi had heard enough. If there truly was such a thing as a miracle, why couldn't it happen here? And so unfolds a story that poignantly reveals how, though quiet and hidden, faith and hope cannot be suppressed-by soldiers or by time.

Sewn Hardcover, size 10.2" x 8.4", 32 pages, Illus

'In spite of family opposition, eighteen-year-old Kit Haverard goes to London determined to pursue her singing career. 232pp'

A boy's efforts to create an icon to please the family's new maid helps him to make new friends and discover an artistic talent. 103pp

Beorn the Proud
by Madeleine A. Polland

Beorn, a pagan Viking from Denmark, becomes a better ruler as a result of the influence of Ness, a Christian girl he took from Ireland as his slave.

Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 185 pages

Pierre, sole survivor of an aristocratic family in the French Revolution, escapes to America aboard the Fair American with the aid of Sally, Andrew, and Andrew's father. 137pp

Sally belongs to a household full of aunts and uncles, all headed by her Uncle Joseph and ruled over by his sister Nannie. But now these two are at loggerheads, caused by Cousin Ephraim's letter, urging them to resettle in his Maine vicinity. Fortunately Uncle Joseph has a clever plan. It will launch them on a winter saga, employing a mode of travel only a New England Yankee could have invented. Sally-and the reader-will enjoy the surprises of this journey, taken in company with her lively and lovable relations. A story full of early American detail, set in the era shortly before the War of 1812. 118pp, softcover, Illus, ages 8+

While the majority of Internet users reside in industrialized nations, online access in the developing world has risen rapidly in recent years. As emerging technologies increasingly permit inexpensive and easy online access, the number of Internet users worldwide will only continue to expand. Computer-Mediated Communication: Issues and Approaches in Education examines online interactions from different national, cultural, linguistic, legal, and economic perspectives, exploring how the increasingly international and intercultural Internet affects the ways users present ideas, exchange information, and conduct discussions online. Educators, researchers, and practitioners will discover ways to effectively use Web-based technologies, transcending barriers to participate and collaborate in international projects that reflect the scope and scale of today's global interactions. 139pp

The White Horse
by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Fourth in the series starting with Away Goes Sally. After one adventurous but fairly safe voiyage on the Fair American, Aunt Nannie reluctantly allows Sally to sail away again with Captain Patterson and Andrew. This time they sail in the Mediterranean Sea and right into the clutches of pirates and taken to Morocco. Sally proves her courage in an extraordinary opporutnity and neither she nor those she encounters in the Sultan's palace will ever be quite the same again.

Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 175 pages

More Once Upon a Time Saints
by Ethel Pochocki

Here are yet more of "those human and lovable people whose mysterious passion for God led them into preposterous escapades." Story-teller Ethel Pochocki follows up her book Once Upon a Time Saints and presents another collection of wildly distinctive saints - from Hyacinth to Zita to Longinus to Kentigern - and readers will again be charmed by the vivid immediacy of their settings. We find out what very real people they were, these saints who lived and breathed in a wold as hard, as wet, as hot, as enticing and as changeful as our own. Yet their heroism is all their own. Ethel Pochocki leads us through their adventures, joys and sorrows to the truly happy ending each one gained.

Saints included

St Hyacinth	St Joan Delanoue	St Joseph of Arimathea	St Kentigern
St Longinus	St Martha	St Melangell	St Moses the Black
St Nicolas Postgate	St Pharaildis	St Rigobert	St Servulus
The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus	St Simeon	St Swithin	St Zita
St Adauctus

Ages: 5 +

Paperback, size 8.4" x 7", 93 pages

Story of a nine-year-old girl from a potato farm in Maine and her friendship with a German Prisoner of War during the second world war. For Christmas, Clare is determined to recreate at least one familiar holiday tradition for Peter, the POW. Her gift and Peter's present in return strengthen the bonds of an unlikely and gentle friendship. 32pp, colour illustrations, pb.

It is 1769, ten years since America's colonial militia had joined with the British regular army and defeated the French for dominion of Canada. John Treegate decided to travel to England leaving his motherless, eleven-year-old son Peter on his own, apprenticed to one of Treegate's friends. One of the senior apprentices is a vicious bully. A chain of events leads to trouble for Peter-involving murder, shipwreck, loss of memory, adoption by a strange and bitter Scotsman, until finally he is reunited with his father on the eve of America's battle for independence.

Rolf, son of Hiarandi the Unlucky, is a character who exemplifies the effect of Christ's teachings upon the Icelandic people during their heroic age. The book is set in Iceland in the days when Christianity has come to the island though the old customs still linger. Hiarandi, at the urging of his wife, does an unprecedented thing: he lights a signal fire on a dangerous point of his land, thereby challenging the accepted custom which places lucrative salvage at higher value than the saving of life. However, the life that is saved that night causes his own death and the unjust outlawing of his son Rolf. Rolf's response to this injustice creates a suspenseful, thought-provoking tale difficult to put down. 244pp

The Anglo-Saxon poem recounting the story of Beowulf's battle with the monster, Grendel, is retold in the style of modern verse 48pp

What happens when a modern American lady journalist becomes a Mexican senora in 1930's Mexico? She finds herself coping with servants, daily food allowances, bargaining, and dramatic Latin emotions. A vivid authobiography with humour and the insight of a remarkable woman. 256pp, softcover, ages 14 +

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'Conan, a young squire in twelth-century Burgundy, is determined to find a way to defeat the fearsome Sauval brothers, a pair of robber barons who pillage and terrorize the local countryside. 370pp'