Webster Bible Church and Webster Christian School Library Blog

It’s 1875, and eighth-graders Bridget (aka “Bird”) Mallon and Thomas Leary are neighbors in a New York City apartment where they can watch the Brooklyn Bridge being constructed.  Bird’s parents immigrated from Ireland to escape the potato famine, and they are proud of the good education Bird is receiving.  Bird enjoys school, but she also loves [...]

In 1931, seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell pitches in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, striking out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.  Soon after that game, the baseball commissioner voided Jackie’s contract with her major league team.  The reason given?  Baseball is ”too strenuous” for a woman.  Jackie continued to pitch in the minor leagues for another 5 years [...]

Bass Reeves, a former slave, does an extraordinary job as a deputy U.S. marshall in the wild west–capturing over 3,000 outlaws and gaining the respect of those on both sides of the law. Reeves was creative and fearless in his pursuit of outlaws, killing only 14 men and suffering  no serious physical injuries.  He was [...]

Thirteen-year-old Logan and his parents have barely unloaded their moving boxes when their next-door neighbor, Arthur,  tells them that the former home owner was found murdered in the basement.  Looking for clues to the unsolved mystery, Logan and Arthur investigate the creepy remains of an old amusement park nearby–putting themselves squarely in danger. Do you have any [...]

Miranda knows how to get around on the streets of her New York City neighborhood,  but navigating  through issues with her sixth-grade friends is a little more tricky. Losing a best friend, making a new friend, talking to a bully, gaining a boyfriend, avoiding a crazy guy–whew!  As if that’s not enough drama, Miranda also helps to prep her [...]

President Lincoln recognized the value of many advances in technology such as railroads, the telegraph, surveillance balloons, iron-clads, and high-powerd weapons and utilized them as commander-in-chief to help win the Civil War. History buffs will love this clear, riveting description of how many advances in technology were used and pushed forward by the exigencies of [...]

In 1939, Stephie and Nellie leave their parents and Jewish home in Nazi-occupied Austria  to stay with foster parents in Sweden. During World War II, 500 Jewish children from Austria, Germany, and Czechoslovakia were given asylum in Sweden.   Although  they expected the separation to be brief, only 1 out of 4 of the children had even one [...]

Eleven-year-old Lonnie Collins Motion (a.k.a. Lo Co Motion) tells his story in a series of school poetry journal entries.   Lonnie remembers happy times spent with his family before his parents die in a housefire as well as the cruel memories of that tragic night.  He also expresses his feelings, thoughts, and hopes about his life now [...]