Webster Bible Church and Webster Christian School Library Blog

The fourth-grade library class at Webster Christian School researches the great horned owl each fall. After the class creates  a “Know/Want to Know” chart about the great horned owl, each  student chooses one question to research.Their questions and answers are listed below. The project culminates with a visit from Krittr Kris (Kristin Forsythe) who brings 2 [...]

It’s 1962, and aspiring author, Skeeter Phelan, decides to write a book about the experiences of black maids working for white employers in Jackson, Mississippi. As a well-to-do native of Jackson, Skeeter was lovingly raised by a black maid. Although she is sympathetic to the winds of social change, Skeeter finds it difficult to gain [...]

“The highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display.” (p.25) “When sin entered the world, it ruined the harmony of marriage not because it brought headship and submission into existence, but because it twisted man’s humble, loving headship toward hostile domination [...]

Follett Titlewave A dog tells her story of how she was rescued from a puppy mill, gently restored to health and then placed in a home with a girl recovering from a long illness. Although this book addresses a very sad topic, it is sensitively told and well-paced so as to convey a lot of [...]

Six-year-old Helen Keller is clearly brilliant but wild as an untamed horse when Annie Sullivan arrives to try to teach the blind and deaf child to communicate. Helen’s family pities the child and does little to control her behavior. WATCH OUT!  Helen has met her match in Miss Spitfire (Annie Sullivan). Annie, an orphan who was born half-blind and cross-eyed, [...]

Two seventh-grade Kentucky girls–one from a private school in Lexington and the other from a public school in the “hollows” of the Cumberland Gap–participate in a student exchange program. As Ivy June and Catherine spend two weeks living with the other girl’s family and attending school along side of her, the differences in their cultures [...]

While  classmates play happily at recess, a young boy sits alone, at a distance from the others, covering his ears. He hears the playgound sounds as one big noise. We hear his thoughts as he revels in the gentle wind patting his head, a leaf that lands near him for a visit, and a stray piece of white [...]

Follett Titlewave In a country where the government monitors and limits family spending, 8th-grader Matt is snatched from his family and forced to work off their debt.   This well-crafted story is close enough to reality to be credible, much like Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series.   Many dystopian novels have sprung up in the [...]

  “As book two opens, Aidan is living in the court of King Darrow. He has become best friends with Darrow’s son Steren, and he enjoys great favor among the courtiers. But King Darrow’s suspicion is growing and his insecurity causes him to hate the young man who saved his kingdom. Concerned about his king’s [...]