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It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister, Lizzie, are missionaries heading for the ancient city of Kashgar on the Silk Road. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva's motives are not quite as noble, but with her green bicycle and a commission from a publisher to write "A Lady cyclist's guide to Kashgar," she is ready for adventure.
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Series
Trailblazer books volume 12
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1888, change arrives in a small village in Calabar, Nigeria in the form of a courageous missionary named Mary.
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Series
Trailblazer books volume 11
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1843, twelve-year-old Perrin joins his aunt and uncle, well-known missionaries Dr. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, in the Oregon Territory where they live with the Nez Perce and Cayuse Indians.
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Series
Trailblazer books volume 25
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1897 Adam Christian joins Sheldon Jackson's expedition to take food and supplies to hundreds of starving gold miners in the Yukon.
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Pub. Date
c2000
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When Rachel Lane learns that she has inherited eleven billion dollars from her biological father, she wants nothing to do with the money, or her father's other children who insist that they be given the money they feel they deserve, even though the will states they are to get nothing.
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2012.
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In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin - an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women's College - decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle...
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