Webster Bible Church and Webster Christian School Library Blog

“From the time I was really little–maybe just a few months old–words were like sweet, liquid gifts, and I drank them like lemonade.  I could almost taste them. . . . Every word my parents spoke to me or about me I absorbed and kept and remembered.  All of them. . . . By the [...]

“I’m used to doing what’s hard.” It’s no wonder. Delphine’s mother just up and left one day when Delphine was only four, her younger sister Vonetta wanted someone to carry her, and baby Fern was still nursing. Their grandmother, Big Ma, came up from Alabama to help, and the girls have lived with her and [...]

Its  the summer of 1957, and Tiger Ann lives with her parents and Granny in the small town of Saitter, Louisiana. Tiger Ann’s parents are different. Some folks would use the word retarded to describe them,  but Tiger Ann prefers “slow.” Tiger’s best friend is a boy, Jesse Wade.  When Tiger’s not helping Granny do [...]

It’s 1935, and times are tough. Turtle Curry’s mother takes work as a housekeeper where children aren’t allowed, so Turtle travels south to live with relatives she has never met in Key West, Florida. In Turtle in Paradise, a spirited eleven-year-old girl lands is a close-knit “Conch” community filled with boy cousins, strange ways, hidden [...]

Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is content riding the rails with her Daddy, but he sends her to Manifest, Kansas, to spend the summer of 1936 with folks from his youth. While there, she lives with the interim Baptist minister and spies around town with two new friends, Lettie and Ruthanne. Abilene is puzzled about her father’s [...]