Books published by publisher Legacy Press

Here is the answer to every church's needs! This series of easy-to-do, attractive bulletin board ideas includes plenty of patterns, borders and lettering. In addition, each Bible-based bulletin board includes church fellowship ideas to provide extended ministry opportunities. The series includes every holiday and church observance to provide display choices throughout each season. Reproducible.

"...Trouble should have been Sharon Clark's middle name. Whenever she tried ANYTHING it turned out wrong.Whenever she tried to act grown up, her parents said, "You're only twelve years old. You have plenty of time to grow up. You're still a child."When she did childish things, she heard, "You're twelve years old. You should act like a young adult."Why couldn't they make up their minds? Her parents confused Sharon and made her head ache."Sharon, you are daydreaming, again. Help your sister finish eating."Her mother's voice brought her thoughts back to the dining room where the family was finishing dinner.Sharon went back to shoveling meat into her sister’s mouth.Sarah chewed and swallowed, “I can feed myself, Mom. Let Sharon finish her own dinner."Sarah had been born with Cerebral Palsy caused by a lack of oxygen while being born. It was the type doctors called 'spastic'. For Sarah, this meant that she didn't have control of the muscles in her right arm and leg. After years of therapy, she was much better and could do most things herself. However, she could still only walk with a brace.Sharon helped her older sister with a lot of things. She loved her sister deeply and didn't mind helping her."...A young teen's struggle to live up to her responsibilities at home and in dozens of odd jobs, all while trying to save the money to purchase her older sister Sarah an amazing gift.

“Whoever it was that said your high school years are the best years of your life, needs to talk to me. In the three weeks I’d been a high school freshman, life had become more miserable than ever before. I just didn’t fit in. Students jammed the hallway, but I walked to class by myself. My only friend from elementary school had different classes than I did and we only saw each other after school. Making friends was not something I did well. I had skipped the first grade, so I was one to two years younger than most high school freshmen.” Excerpt from “In the Shadow of the Sun”“In the Shadow of the Sun” is the story of 13 year old Elizabeth Polikowski’s harrowing journey through her first year of High School, while battling depression, a poor self image and a tumultuous home life, and dealing with falling in love for the first time.Explores dark themes of teen suicide, drug use, sex and depression tastefully, and without preaching. You journey with young Elizabeth through shadows and into the light of the sun again.

In the second book of the Project Madison series, things get complicated as Madison and Cooper try to navigate their new relationship. School has ended and they're spending more time together, blogging, working at the kennel, training dogs—including Lilly. When Jonah, the new neighbor who has moved into Paige's old house, begins to spend more time with Madison, Cooper isn't at all happy. Jonah's uncle, a Native American, shares his knowledge about Madison's power to see and feel canine memories and emotions. The mysterious white wolf returns and fills her mind with dreams and more questions. Madison starts a dog-walking business and discovers Ben, a crotchety old man whose dog is skin and bones.When the kennel receives a dog that has been brutally injured, Madison is determined to find out what happened. She and Cooper realize they're going to need Jonah and Donald to bust this investigation wide open and save the dogs. But getting to the bottom of the mystery will threaten not only Madison, but everyone she loves.

Life is getting tricky for eleven-year-old Madison Morgan. She’s not interested in boys, fashion, or the latest gossip, unlike her best friend Paige. Since her mom died, her stepdad, who she knows as Henry, has way too many complicated systems around the house but way too little to say about her mom’s death. To top it off, in her first year of middle school, Madison and her new friend Cooper have become the “school project” of a bully named Donald. And all she really wants is a dog to call her own, but all she gets is the parental-brush-off. What is a straight-talking, spunky middle grader going to do? Kids from ages nine- to twelve-years-old are sure to get a laugh from every page of Madison Morgan: When Dogs Blog, the young adult novel by author Pam Torres that charts the sometimes tough, frequently funny days of the wise-cracking, dog-loving Madison. When her dad arrives home with a foster dog, a scrawny brown terrier named Lilly, Madison is amazed to find she has an ability to understand dogs, their emotions, and often their pasts. However, this rare ability also leads her to uncover some extremely harmful activities that are happening right in her very own neighborhood. If she exposes the culprits behind them, she may risk losing Cooper, not to mention destroy her plan to remain invisible at school. As Madison struggles to feel normal and understand her ability to translate dog-speak, this coming-of-age story shares how one quirky young girl saves the day with the help of her father and their friend Netta at the Second Chance Rescue Shelter. Frank, funny, and full of adventure, Madison Morgan: When Dogs Blog is a must for any middle grader, who is certain to be enthralled by this dog blogger.

A group of friends must band together to defeat an ancient evil in Daniel R. Mathews’s terrifying debut, The Unseen Kingdom. In a small New England town, thirteen-year-old Tommy Wilson’s biggest worry is coming out to his close-knit group of friends. All of that changes, however, when the boys discover a dream portal to R’lyeh—home to the Titan god Cthulhu himself. Inhabited by monstrous creatures and eerie children who have appointed Tommy and his friends their new “apostles,” R’lyeh becomes a horrifying yet darkly fascinating world that proves to be increasingly real. Meanwhile, the town’s population is suddenly overrun with a mysterious epidemic that threatens everyone. As the boys struggle to cope with what is happening, Tommy comes closer than ever to discovering the dark secret that lurks within R’lyeh itself—but will the price prove to be too costly? And, can the boys unlock the link between the secrets of R’lyeh and the devastation of their town’s population before it’s too late? A truly unique work of fiction, The Unseen Kingdom is an LGBT coming-of-age novel skillfully infused with edge-of-your-seat horror, resulting in a wildly entertaining novel that will leave you guessing until the very last page.

In the second book of the Project Madison series, things get complicated as Madison and Cooper try to navigate their new relationship. School has ended and they're spending more time together, blogging, working at the kennel, training dogs—including Lilly. When Jonah, the new neighbor who has moved into Paige's old house, begins to spend more time with Madison, Cooper isn't at all happy. Jonah's uncle, a Native American, shares his knowledge about Madison's power to see and feel canine memories and emotions. The mysterious white wolf returns and fills her mind with dreams and more questions. Madison starts a dog-walking business and discovers Ben, a crotchety old man whose dog is skin and bones. When the kennel receives a dog that has been brutally injured, Madison is determined to find out what happened. She and Cooper realize they're going to need Jonah and Donald to bust this investigation wide open and save the dogs. But getting to the bottom of the mystery will threaten not only Madison, but everyone she loves.