Books with author Elizabeth Yates

The Next Fine Day is historical fiction by award-winning author Elizabeth Yates. 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. Kent’s life is changed forever when he meets an artist who has come to paint the herons of Chilham.

Sound Friendships, a fiction by Elizabeth Yates, introduces us to Willa, a young woman who has heard only silence since she was fourteen. And then a golden retriever named Honey comes with a pair of brown eyes and a golden heart to match her coat. With the devoted Hearing Dog at her side, Willa enters a world that she thought was closed to her forever. From her own research and experience with the deaf, Newbery-winning novelist Yates tells this tale of a Hearing Dog who opened her owners heart and many other hearts as well.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Sound Friendships is the story of Willa Macy, who lost her hearing when she was fourteen years old, and Honey, a golden retriever, who helped her to discover a new world of independence and security. It is also a story about Hearing Dogs--their background, training, special abilities, and the unique relationship they develop with their owners in working to surmount the barriers of a physical handicap.

In Elizabeth Yates' fiction novel Iceland Adventure, fifteen-year-old Michael and his fourteen-year-old sister, Merry, accompany their adventurous Uncle Tony to Iceland. There they explore the remote mountainous countryside in search of a long-lost relative of one of their uncle's friends. They learn mountaineering, among other things, as they try to solve the mystery of what happened to the son of Jon Magnusson.

Mountain Born is about a very young boy and the lamb his mother saves from death. Peter, the boy, adopts the lamb and raises it by bottle from the day of its birth. The two become inseparable. They share many adventures with an older wise workhand named Benj. The book covers a span of seven years as Peter and his goat, Biddy grow up together. The story is interesting and describes life on a mountain sheep farm during the early 20th century. Peter's family live off the land, growing everything they need. Their clothing even comes from the wool of their sheep. Life is simple, requires hard work, and creates a strong bond between the humans and their animals. This is an endearing story of the cycle of life and a boy's growth into young manhood.

This six-week Bible study is written for teenagers, ages 13-18, whose parents are divorced. Whether a teens parents have recently divorced or divorced many years ago, this book helps teenagers work through the thoughts, feelings, and circumstances that arise from an emotionally painful time in a youth's life. The entire study is grounded in Scripture and each chapter contains thought-provoking questions to help teens process their journey as they move from hurt to healing.