Dave Jackson
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 9
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
When he is taken aboard a ship bound for China, twelve-year-old Neil Thompson is befriended by Hudson Taylor and shares adventures with him during the voyage and in China, where Taylor sets up a mission.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 12
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In 1888, change arrives in a small village in Calabar, Nigeria in the form of a courageous missionary named Mary.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 19
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Jova, a seven-year-old Kru boy in Liberia and a captive slave of his people's enemy the Grebos, witnesses the dramatic conversion to Christianity of the Kru prince Kaboo and his subsequent disappearance; seven years later, in 1893, Jova sails to America to find Prince Kaboo and bring him back to rule his people.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In 1906, while visiting his journalist uncle in California, thirteen-year-old Jerry hears the San Francisco earthquake predicted at preacher William Seymour's Pentecostal mission, sees the ensuing destruction, and learns the power of the Holy Ghost.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 37
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A Muslim boy, in Morocco, risks his parent's wrath when he accepts pictures of Jesus from a Christian missionary named Maude Cary.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 32
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
While held hostage on a pirate ship in 1700, thirteen-year-old Theo escapes with his sister and enlists the help of William Penn to rescue their mother.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 30
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kyemap wants to accept the Christian teachings of Mr. Grubb, a missionary to the Lengua Indians of Paraguay during the 1890s, but he fears the reaction of the witch doctors.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 1
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Arriving in London in the 1880s, orphans Jack and Amy find themselves the prey of the worst elements of society until they receive aid from William and Catherine Booth and their Salvation Army people.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 26
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Teenage Elizabeth Tilley, one of the colonists landing at New Plymouth on the Mayflower, sees her parents die from illness and wonders if God is punishing her for the terrible secret she carries.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 8
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
As the Burmese War begins in the 1820s, missionaries Adoniram and Ann Judson, the adoptive parents of May-lo and Len-lay, are accused of espionage.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 10
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A young slave girl on a Maryland plantation is led to freedom by Harriet Tubman.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 7
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
With God's love, Curly, a young nineteenth-century English boy convicted of armed robbery, reforms his ways after being sent to one of George Müller's orphan homes.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 6
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
While searching for his younger brother who has been "sold" to be trained as a chimney sweep in eighteenth-century London, thirteen-year-old Ned meets the itinerant preacher John Wesley whose message changes the lives of his entire family.
19) The hidden jewel
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 4
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
While traveling in the south of India, fourteen-year-old John and his mother encounter the Irish missionary Amy Carmichael and find themselves drawn into helping the work of the Dohnavur Fellowship.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 5
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
In the 1860s two African boys are taken captive and mistakenly left in the care of David Livingstone, whom they accompany on his quest to find a way to stop the slave trade and to open the interior of Africa to missionaries.