Most Popular Books by Elizabeth Yates

The story of the young Prudence Crandall''s stout-hearted resistance to danger and violence inspirits us in the same way. There really was a patriotic Prudence Crandall who fought bravely against heavy odds for what we now love as one of the bases of our American heritage. She is no imaginary heroine. She was a slender young woman, with bright blue eyes, soft blond hair, and a special way of speaking, quiet, controlled -, "lady-like," as people said in the early part of the 1800''s, - but firm as granite. The author of this book has searched letters, memoirs, documents of all kinds, and has found out so much about her, that we can actually see her as she stood, brave as a lion, in her decorous, long, spreading skirts, her well-brushed golden hair gleaming, her bonnet-strings tied neatly under her firm chin.

The boy isn''t much to look at: thin, pale, and undersized for his age. Neighbors shake their heads over Jared Austin''s odd ways. His father doesn''t think he''s good for anything much. Even his friend Jennet wonders what will become of him. But Jared isn''t concerned; he has his own ideas about what is really important. One day a journeyman painter visits their quiet New Hampshire farm, and his unexpected offer sets Jared aglow with excitement. He starts off on an adventure that takes him miles from home and into experiences that bring him to manhood and deepen his faith. But before he leaves, Jared promises Jennet that someday, someday, he will come back for her. - Back cover.

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Jared Austin, staunch member of the mutual protection society that defends his 1830s New Hampshire community against thieves, tries to temper justice with mercy when his deaf daughter Melody befriends a young Irish immigrant who has stolen a horse.

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Michael and Meredith Lamb find new friends and mountains to climb when they travel from war-torn London to New Hampshire with their Uncle Tony during World War II. Sequel to Swiss Holiday and Iceland Adventure.

The mother of a young family in Temple, New Hampshire, manages the homestead while her husband fights at Bunker Hill and at Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.

A collection of familiar stories about children from both the Old and New Testament.

A man passes through life possessing in turn seven dogs, each of whom offers him love in a different way.

John Dexter, an American boy, is chosen to fly around the world and visit with children of different countries to find out what the United Nations International Childrens̕ Emergency Fund is doing.

An English girl loves her wooden Dutch doll so much that it comes to life.

Each spring for hundreds of years, the herons have returned to Chilham, England, but only now have they become important to Kent. Their departure this fall marks the beginning of a new life for his mother, who has closed her heart to love, and for Kent, who thinks of himself as Nobody.

A sixteen-year-old lad, who can paddle, sing, and swim, signs a three-year contract as a voyageur and joins an expedition to northwest Canada in 1750 to search for furs and his future.

The area of local government finance has been revolutionized by Part V of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. This book describes and discusses the law relating to local authorities and their relationship with companies in which they have an interest. It examines the legal nexus between company and local authority law created by Part V of the 1989 Act, and the consequent delegated legislation. Sufficient legal background is provided to enable local authority lawyers and their accountants to apply the company law regime of Part V in the context of their local authority.