Books with author Ann Roos

Peter Claver lived, worked, and died more than three hundred years before this book was written. What we know of him today has come from the original Spanish biographies written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and from that most important document of all, the record of the Process of Beatification and Canonization. This book is based on the known facts of St. Peter Claver's life. Little is known of his childhood and youth. Conversations are authentic in many cases, and those invented are used to dramatize true or probable events. St. Peter Claver lives today in the hearts of those who revere him for his life and heroic service to his enslaved brothers.St Peter Claver: a humble man who looked for God in everyone he met - and never failed to find Him.

Distraught over her family's financial state, which is forcing them to sell their vacation home on the island where they spend each summer, twelve-year-old Phoebe sees her close friendship with Kit self-destructing as they both become involved in a local talent show.Phoebe, the spoiled friend of Kit Malloy, is upset when her father announces that their summer home must be sold to help his failing business and by the prospect of taking part in the Plymouth Island talent show