Orem Library

To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. "A Christmas Carol" captures the heart of the holidays...

When Mama Bear decides the family has accumulated too many old toys, books, and games, they sort through their extra stuff and take it to the Old Bears' Home, the Beartown Young Cubs Hospital and the Bears Who Care store.

In 1861, Margaret March, with her husband serving as an army chaplain, finds the comfort and security of her four daughters resting on her shoulders alone as she faces financial hardships, secrets, and tragedy, in this revealing retelling of Little Women from the perspective of the beloved matriarch known as Marmee.

Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, whose family lost everything in a fire.

Chummy wants to use his birthday carrots to become a superhero and save the world, but with Gran's help, he learns he does not need a cape to make a difference.

Young widow Lady Helena March agrees to a fake engagement to the sinfully seductive Crenshaw heir to get funding for The London Home for Young Women, but when their deception starts to become real, she must make a difficult decision.

In 1931 Cameroon, young Kedi is upset to learn that children in her American teacher's village of New York are going hungry because of the Great Depression, and she asks her mother, neighbors, and even the headman for money to help. Includes historical notes.

¿Por qué siempre tenía que sufrir yo? ¿Estar siempre vigilada, siempre acusada y condenada sin remisión? Jane es una niña huérfana que se ha educado en un orfanato miserable. Sin embargo, pese a todas las adversidades que la vida ha dispuesto en su camino, su inteligencia y su afán por aprender consiguen apartarla del mundo de su gris infancia, y logra establecerse como institutriz. Mientras trata de cuidar y educar a la joven Adèle, Jane...

Presents a paranormal version of the nineteenth-century novel in which an orphaned young woman, a vampire slayer, accepts employment as a governess at a country estate only to discover that the master's wife, a werewolf, is being hidden in the attic.