xChad and Pat Stendal and their four children, Chaddy, Russell, Sharon, and Gloria, were a regular family until they made a huge commitment by becoming missionaries in Columbia. The Stendals have helped Columbian natives and Kogi Indians, who are native to the area, since their kids were very young. The Year is now 1982...
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Memoir
The Guerillas Have Taken Our Son
The Day the Voices Stopped
In The Day the Voices Stopped, by Ken Steele and Claire Berman, Ken, a 14-year-old boy living in Connecticut, starts having hallucinations and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. He starts hearing voices that taunt him to kill himself. They tell him, “Hang yourself.” Throughout the whole book voices are swarming his mind and making him...
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The Lost Boy
Coming out of a life of violence and mistreatment, David, a young, sweet boy, looks for love as he tries to forget his rough past. In the previous book, A Child Called “It,” Dave explained his life threatening childhood, with events that are completely heart shattering. Now in The Lost Boy, his life has...
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