As Nick does last-minute Christmas shopping, he sees several Santas and overhears one retelling the legend of Saint Nicholas, which he takes to heart as he examines his own attitudes towards gift-giving.

"Meet 12-year-old Kat, short for Katharine. She thinks she has two weeks to do something worthy of being adopted by her wonderful foster family, but cancer, medicine and the older kids at Starlight Animal Rescue make it difficult for Kat to really help out around the farm. On top of that, she just started junior high and has to work on a project with the most popular, and demanding, girl in her class. When Kat accepts the role of "cat shrink" for...

"Everyone knows that war romances never last . . . After a whirlwind romance and wedding, Helen Eberhart Daley, an army nurse, and Lieutenant Frank Daley, M.D., are sent to the front lines of Europe with only letters to connect them for months at a time. Surrounded by danger and desperately wounded patients, they soon find that only the war seems real--and their marriage more and more like a distant dream. If they make it through the war, will their...

Tressa is worried that the robins nesting on her grandmother's window ledge will not survive a pre-Easter cold snap, but her grandmother urges her to trust that God is caring for them, as a robin once cared for His son, Jesus.

During the Great Depression, Jack helps his mother make cookies for the needy at their church, learns the story of how the first Christmas cookies were used to spread the gospel to people who could not read, then finds a way to bring that story to life.

Winnie is determined to find out who is sabotaging her new friend Ramon's chances to become a star circus performer.

Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. She can gentle the wildest mare, but other parts of life don't always come as easily. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom-who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted as well. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities...

Dandi enjoys nothing more than baseball, and so after the boys at school tell her their lunchtime game is now boys only, she enters an essay contest hoping to become a bat boy for the Kansas City A's, not realizing the contest is for boys only. Includes author's note on Title IX.

The first day of school starts out filled with doubt, but after facing fear of the big kids, reciting the alphabet with ease, and learning about recess, a child can't help but look forward to day two.