Trailblazer books
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Trailblazer books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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.
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Trailblazer books volume 2
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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Sarah tries to smuggle a New Testament into England in order to save the life of William Tyndale, a man imprisoned for translating the Bible into English.
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Trailblazer books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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After coming to Wittenberg to seek an education, Karl Schumacher becomes a student of Dr. Martin Luther and, when the latter is declared a heretic, Karl accompanies him when he travels to Worms to defend his views.
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Escape from the slave traders: David Livingstone , Trailblazer books volume 5
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Trailblazer books volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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.
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The bandit of Ashley Downs: George Muller , Trailblazer books volume 7
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Imprisoned in the Golden City: Adoniram and Ann Judson , Trailblazer books volume 8
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Shanghaied to China: Hudson Taylor , Trailblazer books volume 9
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Trailblazer books volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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A young slave girl on a Maryland plantation is led to freedom by Harriet Tubman.
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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.
12) Trial-by-poison
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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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Flight of the fugutives: Gladys Aylward , Trailblazer books volume 14
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Trailblazer books volume 15
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
His friendship with Peter Cartwright, a Methodist circuit-rider evangelist, enables thirteen-year-old Gil to pursue his dream of locating his mother who was kidnapped by the Sauk Indians during the War of 1812.
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Trailblazer books volume 17
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1817 a teenage brother and sister are relieved from the abuses of Newgate Prison in London by the prison reform efforts of Quaker minister Elizabeth Fry.
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The runaway's revenge: John Newton , Trailblazer books volume 18
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Trailblazer books volume 19
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
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.
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The warrior's challenge: David Zeisberger , Trailblazer books volume 20
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Trailblazer books volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1854, after being wounded while serving as a drummer in the British army in the Crimean War, twelve-year-old Robbie Robinson is cared for by Florence Nightingale and becomes involved in her efforts to improve the medical care of the sick and wounded soldiers.
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Trailblazer books volume 22
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Trailblazer books volume 23
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When her family moves to Daytona, Florida, from Statesboro, Georgia, after the Ku Klux Klan burns down her father's business, eight-year-old Celeste Key becomes one of the first students at Mary Bethune's new school for African-American girls.
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Trailblazer books volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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A fictionalized account of the five missionaries who carried God's word to the fierce Aucas, or Huaorani, of Ecuador in 1956.
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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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Trailblazer books volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
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.
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Mask of the wolf boy: Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth , Trailblazer books volume 27
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Trailblazer books volume 28
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A group of Christians in Uganda are in danger of being executed by the forces of General Idi Amin.
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Race for the record: Joy Ridderhof , Trailblazer books volume 29
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Ambushed in Jaguar Swamp: Barbrooke Grubb , Trailblazer books volume 30
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Trailblazer books volume 31
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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When his father tries to save the family farm in Alabama in 1898 by following the advice of George Washington Carver, fourteen-year-old Jesse struggles to help in his own way.
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Trailblazer books volume 32
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
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Journey to the end of the earth , Trailblazer books volume 33
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Trailblazer books volume 34
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When her best friend Ida moves to China with her missionary parents in the late 1800s, Mollie receives letters from her, including tales of Lottie Moon, a groundbreaking female missionary.
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Sinking the Dayspring: John G. Paton , Trailblazer books volume 35
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Roundup of the street rovers: Charles Loring Brace , Trailblazer books volume 36
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Risking the forbidden game: Maude Cary , Trailblazer books volume 37
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Blinded by the Shining Path: Romulo Saune , Trailblazer books volume 38
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Trailblazer books volume 39
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
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A fictionalized account of how Spokane Garry, a Spokane Indian chief of the nineteenth-century, became a Christian and led many of his people to Christianity.
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Trailblazer books volume 40
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Despite his clubfoot, Danny Sims, Frederick Doublas's fourteen-year-old stable boy, joins the newly formed all-black Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry regiment, eager to do his part to help end slavery.