Books with title His Brother's Keeper

Can two children escape North Korea on their own?North Korea. December, 1950. Twelve-year-old Sora and her family live under an iron set of rules: No travel without a permit. No criticism of the government. No absences from Communist meetings. Wear red. Hang pictures of the Great Leader. Don't trust your neighbors. Don't speak your mind. You are being watched. But war is coming, war between North and South Korea, between the Soviets and the Americans. War causes chaos--and war is the perfect time to escape. The plan is simple: Sora and her family will walk hundreds of miles to the South Korean city of Busan from their tiny mountain village. They just need to avoid napalm, frostbite, border guards, and enemy soldiers.But they can't. And when an incendiary bombing changes everything, Sora and her little brother Young will have to get to Busan on their own. Can a twelve-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother survive three hundred miles of warzone in winter? Haunting, timely, and beautiful, this harrowing novel from a searing new talent offers readers a glimpse into a vanished time and a closed nation.A Junior Library Guild Selection

From the bestselling author, RWK Clark comes this terrifying story about a teen girl’s violated corpse discovered outside of town.A misunderstood act of chivalry places Scott at the mercy of a town hiding a sinister secret.As they say, no good deed goes unpunished, and for Scott, that punishment could be his life. Sit back and enjoy this stay-up-all-night serial killer psychological thriller.Author Commentary‘Brother’s Keeper’ is my first psychological thriller, and it was simultaneously fun and difficult to write. It tells the story of Scott Sharp, a traveler whose train makes a stop at the tiny town of Burdensville. Here, Scott tries to assist a waitress being harassed by a drunk and gets himself arrested, which results in pulling the stranger into the dark secrets the town holds, and the secrets won’t let him go.Writing this story was fun for a variety of reasons. It was off the beaten path compared to most books I write. The monster in this book is not a vampire, witch, or zombie; instead, the monster is an unknown man who is murdering women at night who pass through the town. Developing the character of the murderer was a good time; I wanted him to be dull, but intelligent; he needed to be needy, but in control in ways no one understood. He needed to have deep-seated issues that were in such a terrible knot that even those who might care about him didn’t know how to sort them out.Scott walks into Burdensville without the slightest idea what has been happening to this town. He is, utterly and completely, an innocent victim. The whole place is off, and he can’t seem to put his finger on what is happening around him. But it is there that Scott himself will begin to unravel the goings-on in Burdensville for himself.I wanted people to really be in Burdensville while they read this. I also wanted readers to get a very specific feel for the town; Mayberry without a shower. I did my best to convey the gloom of the constant shadows that seem to hang over the place, even when the sun was shining. That’s more or less what happens in small-town life and, evil or not, Burdensville is no different.

Countless books on the Civil War recount the carnage, vengeance, and heroism in battle. But there was another aspect of the Civil War as well: one in which Yankees and Rebels during the heat of battle saved one another, often at risk of their own lives; one in which soldiers and civilians, prison guards and prisoners, though on opposing sides, not only traded with one another, but gave humanitarian aid and sustenance in times of need. This "brotherhood for the enemy" contradicted all the rules of normal warfare but did in fact take place. Using primary source materials such as diaries, letters, military reports, and newspapers, Daniel Rolph opens up a unique and little-known genre of Civil War history.

Can two children escape North Korea on their own?North Korea. December, 1950. Twelve-year-old Sora and her family live under an iron set of rules: No travel without a permit. No criticism of the government. No absences from Communist meetings. Wear red. Hang pictures of the Great Leader. Don't trust your neighbors. Don't speak your mind. You are being watched. But war is coming, war between North and South Korea, between the Soviets and the Americans. War causes chaos--and war is the perfect time to escape. The plan is simple: Sora and her family will walk hundreds of miles to the South Korean city of Busan from their tiny mountain village. They just need to avoid napalm, frostbite, border guards, and enemy soldiers.But they can't. And when an incendiary bombing changes everything, Sora and her little brother Young will have to get to Busan on their own. Can a twelve-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother survive three hundred miles of warzone in winter? Haunting, timely, and beautiful, this harrowing novel from a searing new talent offers readers a glimpse into a vanished time and a closed nation.A Junior Library Guild Selection

FREE Download on Kindle Unlimited!Abigail makes a life-altering mistake when she’s twenty years old. She elopes with Derreck Anderson who promises her marriage, but instead abandons her in New York City after he learns she’s expecting his child. Worse than that—he pawns her off to a gang leader named Otto as payment for his gambling bets. During the ensuing five years, Abigail lives in hellish circumstances. Her only respite is her son Robert and the church—which is the only place Otto allows her to go freely. When her friend, Reverend Francis, answers a matrimonial ad in her place and urges her to escape, she makes her run for freedom.Richard Anderson is a hardworking, dedicated, and honorable gentleman who works tirelessly on his farm. After his parents’ sudden death, he lives there alone with Aunt Maud. At a friend’s urging, Richard posts an advert looking for a wife—but little does he know that the woman who answers his advert is the one whose life had been ruined by his very own troublemaking younger brother, Derreck.But Derreck isn’t home, and Abigail doesn’t like to talk about her past, so neither of them learn the truth of their volatile situation until it is too late…

Toby Malone looks up to his brother Jake. Everyone does. He is the cool one, the one who is good at baseball. Even Mr. Furry, the unfortunately named family cat, seems to prefer him to everyone else. Toby and Jake and their little brother have always had an easy, jostling friendship, in which it is them against the rest of the world. But ever since Toby`s father left, things have been off balance. Toby`s mother seems deflated and resigned. And his little brother is exhibiting odd signs of stress. Toby struggles to keep his family together even as things are falling apart. Despite his efforts, though, Jake is drifting farther and farther away, and Toby knows it is because he is becoming increasingly dependent on drugs. Toby tries to cover up for Jake, to spare his mother yet another disappointment. But his attempts to protect Jake and his mother backfire, only adding to the growing tension between the brothers+until Jake finally goes much too far. With great warmth and wry humor, Patricia McCormick draws a portrait of a typical family that is struggling to reconnect after a crisis.

Seventeen-year-old Jerrod has struggled with the guilt of his actions for an event that took place almost a year ago. His friends have abandoned him, his family ignores him, and he lost his best friend. To make matters worse, he was unable to access records that may have revealed his father's whereabouts. His sister, Ella, guides Jerrod as he tries to learn and accept secrets his family has tried to hide. However, a sinister spirit may be influencing Ella's actions, and it has an agenda of its own.

Zack and Matt McCannon have had a difficult life up to now; abandoned by their parents, when they were very young, Zack took it upon himself to raise his brother himself, not an easy task at the best of times. Matt possesses supernatural powers and because of this, something malevolent always seems to be after him—this ever present evil has Zack struggling to maintain his younger brother’s safety. One of Matt’s visions leads the brothers to a cave which they soon find out to be a trap and the start of a terrifying adventure. The demon, Alanya, wants to control Matt and possess his powers, and kill Zack. When the demon asks Zack a question, “How far will you go to save your brother?” Zack replies, “As far as I have to.”Now an evil like no other is determined to destroy everything the brothers hold dear and if the McCannon's are not careful, neither will be able to escape!

“The Golden Rule” is taught to the children the world over. Brother’s Keeper reinforces this with the Bible lesson of "The Good Samaritan" than applies it to situations your child will relate to. Follow the story of Micah as he finds himself in situations where he is given the chance to aid others and discover what it means to be his brother’s keeper.

A novel of the First World War. Alfie signs up for the army aged just 15, carried away by patriotic fervour at the start of the Great War. But life in the trenches is very far from his dreams of glory. It's hard, and cold, and it's boring. Alfie is desperate to see some action. But when he volunteers for a raid on the German trenches, against the advice of his comrades, Alfie begins to understand what war means, and to see the value of the lives that are being thrown away on the Western Front every day...