A Matter of Conscience: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, Joan Kane Nichols.Winnie the Pooh, Friendship Day, Nancy Parent.What You Will See in a Catholic Church, Michael Keane.The Story of the Pilgrims, Katharine Ross.The Hunter and the Animals: A Wordless Picture Book, Tomie de Paola.Lizzy’s Do’s and Don’ts, Jessica Harper.It’s Great to Be Catholic, Susan Heybeer O’Keefe.Impatient Pamela Asks: Why are My Feet so Huge? Mary Koski.

I’m Gonna Like Me: Letting off a Little Self-Esteem.I Learn About Jesus, Mary Elizabeth Tebo, FSP.God is Here…When Bad things Happen, Martha Mary Moss, FSP and Thomas Groome.America: A Patriotic Primer, Lynne Cheney.

A Walk Through Our Church, Gertrud Mueller Nelson.

Evangelization & Missionary Discipleship.

Cathedral of Christ the King (Superior).

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Many of the complex issues raised here are explored in greater depth in Kathryn Lasky's Beyond the Divide (Macmillan, 1983) or Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Fawcett, 1987).?Alice Casey Smith, Sayreville War Memorial High School, NJĬopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. While Isaac's faith is not tested in abusive circumstances, as it is with the Amish teen, worldly interactions complicate matters. Gideon's stern, unyielding father illustrates the vast emotional chasm that results from a heavy-handed approach in parent/teen relations, universally, in any culture, at any time. Deft characterizations and juxtaposition of fathers and sons amplify similarities and differences between the families and cultures.

She fears losing him forever and begs Isaac to help her persuade Gideon to stay. His sister Annie finds his secret stash of 'englische' clothes, a forbidden copy of Treasure Island, and a harmonica. Gideon Stolzfus, 16, chafes under the rigid tenets of his family's local sect, and plans to run away to his uncle's more lenient community. When Isaac Litvak, 12, is injured on an Amish farm, his Jewish peddler father leaves him behind to recuperate with the whispered reminder, 'Remember who you are.' Though kind and well-meaning, the foreign-speaking family's eating habits and religious laws are strange. Grade 6-9?In this novel set at the turn of the century, two boys?one Orthodox Jew and the other Amish?are brought together by chance.

Gideon's People by Carolyn Meyer