Jamie and the Big Move: A Story to Empower Kids Coping with Change

Jamie is surprised when her parents tell her and her brother that they’re moving to Spain! As she begins to think of it, Fear comes (in a shadowy form) and whispers things that make her afraid. What if she forgets her language? What if she never finds another best friend? As these fears come up, Jamie leaves pieces of her heart all around her town until she’s all out of heart pieces.

Then excitement comes and turns all her worries around. She goes back around town and collects back her heart pieces, each coming with encouragement like, “Home doesn’t have to be just one place,” and “You will learn important lessons wherever you go, they will just be different!”

Reading level: 5-8 years

Dealer: A Soccer Pro’s Deliverance from the Cocaine Underworld

Jon Kregel’s nonfiction, first person account of his life journey from missionary kid to professional soccer player (and teammate of soccer superstar Pele) to drug dealer and prison inmate. Jon writes about what really happens in the “glamorous” world of easy money and drugs. Against a backdrop of self-destruction and hopelessness emerges an inspiring, challenging story of the faithfulness of God and of forgiveness and reconciliation.