Age 8-10

Billy was born on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1918 just days after the signing of the armistice that ended the frist world world w...

Mary Slessor grew up in the slums of Dundee in the 1800's. Industry was booming but housing was sub- standard and life expectancy was low. Illness,...

Robert Murray McCheyne travelled far and wide throughout his short life. He even went as far as Israel and started a mission in Hungary. But you do...

As a little girl, Frances (Fanny) loved to climb trees, enjoy the countryside and to run about with her spaniel. The mountains of Switzerland inspi...

'I can't see! It's dark everywhere. What place is this? Where am I?'Jeya was only four years old and was terrified as she tried to peer about the d...

'Fire, fire!' the frantic shout echoed through the streets of a small Welsh village. As neighbours desperately organised fire fighting equipment, t...

Many looked on Gladys Aylward's expedition to mainland China as foolhardy and dangerous.It was. On her own, as a single female she carried her pass...

Joni Eareckson is a well-known Christian speaker and author from America, but there was a day when she was a teenage girl in a bathing costume with...

When Richard is arrested, imprisoned and tortured he finds himself in utter darkness, yet the people who put him there discover that their prisoner...

Hudson Taylor was a sickly child. He was often ill and had very poor eyesight. But God chose him to evangelise the Chinese. So at the age of 21 Hud...

Patricia St John's life is a story in itself but she grew up to become one of the world's best-loved Christian writers for children. When looking a...

No one guessed he would change the world. A simple country farm boy once prayed that God would use him…and prayed…and prayed. And God did use him, ...

One man fourth to bring freedom and relief from the terrors of the slave trade: it took him forty-five years. His name was William Wilberforce. Thi...

This giftbox collection of colourful trailblazer stories makes a perfect present that will delight young minds. Features some of the great Christ...

Helen Roseveare qualified as a doctor, packed up her life in England and set off to be a missionary in the belgian congo (now the Democratic Republ...

Born into a wealthy family, Florence Nightingale could have lived a life of leisure and luxury. Instead she longed to be a nurse. In 1830, that was...

In the heat and humidity of the South Sea Island John G. Paton is far away from his home and family. However, John wasn't afraid of hard work. He w...

Describes the life of the nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity, gained wide recognition for her humaniitarian efforts in Calcutta and elsewh...

Facing deafness as a teenager, this is the remarkable story of Emily Owen told in a diary format for older children.Emily Owen was an energetic tee...