Children Ages 9-12

The Action Bible Devotional pairs selected stories from the bestselling Action Bible with spiritual lessons and action-adventure missions that launch kids' faith into everyday life. Covering themes such as friendship, temptation, sibling rivalry, self-esteem, and materialism, The Action Bible Devotional offers a year's worth of activities, questions, and ideas that will keep young readers engaged with the Bible every day.
Looking for adventure? With eye-popping comic illustrations and a week's worth of activities for each Bible story, this one-year devotional gives you real-life ways to meet with God and live out his spiritual adventure every day. Every week's story includes:

Key Verse- a highlight from the story you just read

X-Ray Vision- thoughts to connect the story with your life

Your Mission- three ideas to put the themes into action

Your Debrief-three questions to spark some brain cells

Mission Accomplished-your place to make notes

It's all about faith in action as you dive into life knowing God is with you. So get ready to read, draw, doodle, create, pray, and discover. The adventure awaits!

The Action Bible presents more than 230 fast-paced narratives in chronological order, making it easy to follow the Bible's historical flow and building up to the thrilling climax of God's redemptive story.

Plus, these spectacular updates take the action to a whole new level:

25 new stories showcase a more extensive exploration of God's work in our lives.

23 expanded stories highlight additional experiences of the people who tell God's story.

128 new pages of illustrations deliver a richer artistic experience with more close-up faces, historical details, and dramatic colors.

Every page sparks excitement to explore God's Word and know Him personally. Readers will witness God's active presence in the world through stories from the life of Jesus and great heroes of the faith.

Let this blend of powerful imagery and clear storytelling capture your imagination and instill the truth that invites you to discover your own adventure of life with God.

Sergio Cariello's illustrations for The Action Bible leap off the page with the same thrilling energy that earned him international recognition for his work with Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

What could be more exciting for a young boy in thirteenth-century Italy than a tournament? Loupio, the orphan befriended by Saint Francis of Assisi, competes against lads bigger and better trained than himself. But he and his friends, with some help from Brother Wolf, achieve surprising results. Cheer them on to victory in this third volume of The Adventures of Loupio.

This award-winning comic-book series has first-rate, full color illustrations with exciting stories set in the days of knights and castles. Kids love them!

Jean-François Kieffer is a deacon and father of four children. Born in France in 1957, he has been an award-winning writer and illustrator of children's works.

In the exciting days of chivalrous knights and wandering troubadours, a young orphaned poet and musician named Loupio travels throughout Italy experiencing many daring adventures.

Befriended by Francis of Assisi and accompanied by the wolf tamed by this saintly guide, Loupio's often dangerous encounters help him and young readers learn lessons of faith, hope, and charity.

In The Cave, volume 5 of this best-selling series, Loupio encounters prejudice and burglary while learning that mercy and forgiveness are offered to all who sincerely repent and seek God.

With charming rhyming verses, the Benedictine Sisters present glimpses of their everyday life of joy, work, praise -- and fun! Experience the excitement of entering the unknown mystery and beginning a new life inside the hallowed walls of the convent.

You will experience the Sisters' excitement about first receiving their habits, their delight in caring for the elderly Sisters (with wheelchair races!), and their joy in tending the frisky farm animals, singing for the Lord, and recording their heavenly music.

You will marvel at the wonder of postulants as they seek God's will and at the enthusiasm of novices as they journey toward their final profession as Brides of Christ.

Through heartwarming illustrations and captivating verse, you will encounter a love story like no other, with its rich seasons and uniquely enticing rhythm of life.

Above all, you will discover the happiness of the Brides of Christ, who give their lives totally to Jesus and delight in singin

Discover the wonders and secrets of Divine Mercy!

In this adaptation of his best-selling 7 Secrets of Divine Mercy, Vinny Flynn, one of the country's foremost experts on Divine Mercy, leads young people on an exploration through the "Museum of Mercy." Within the halls and rooms of this museum, they'll discover:

the amazing relationship the Holy Trinity wants to have with them,

the inspiring story of St. Faustina and her visions of Jesus,

an explanation of powerful passages from St. Faustina's Diary,

the signs and symbols hidden in the Divine Mercy Image,

the special graces they can receive from meditating on Christ's passion,

how and when to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Novena,

and practical ways to live out the Divine Mercy message in their daily lives.

With captivating illustrations and discussion questions for children and parents after each chapter, this upper elementary and middle school title will inspire young people to live and share the message of Divine Mercy throughout their lives!

Intended for ages 8-14

The famous French author's unique writing style captivates the reader with the heroic story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a modern apostle of Catholic evangelization, Marian spirituality, and a martyr of charity. With the encouragement of Pope John Paul II and the help of documentation (some unpublished) given to him by the Vatican, Frossard chronicles the dramatic and moving life of this Polish Franciscan who volunteered to die in place of a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz.

While his heroic martyr's death is well known, Frossard shows how Kolbe's whole life was one of extraordinary generosity in devotion to his ideal of "love without limits." Kolbe was that rare combination of mystic, intellectual genius, theologian, and down-to-earth practicality. His tremendous creative energies (despite constant bouts of tuberculosis and less than one lung) enhanced the lives of all those who knew him, the millions who read his publications, and the countless persons inspired by his example. Forget Not Love reveals the interesting and impressive details of Kolbe's childhood, vision of Mary, brilliance in his studies, his founding of the largest monastery in the world (700 Franciscans), massive printing apostolate, missionary journeys to Japan, and his final act of love in Auschwitz. Frossard has captured the heart of the man whom Pope John Paul II declared "the patron saint of this difficult century."

Seeing is believing . . . or is it?

This intriguing and fun book investigates 12 mysterious, inexplicable cases that have happened in the history of the Catholic faith, some of which still continue to happen or remain today. These cases consider such questions as:

- Did the sun really dance at Fatima before 70,000 people?
- Did a Host from a Mass actually turn into human flesh?
- Whose face appears on the Shroud of Turin, and how did it get on it?
- What happens with the Holy Fire at the Holy Sepulcher every Holy Saturday evening?
- Why does the bell of Rocamadour sometimes ring for no reason?
- Who was the mysterious carpenter that built a spiral staircase without nails that stands by itself?
- How did the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe get painted on the tilma of Juan Diego?
- How do the bodies of some saints remain intact and never corrupt?

These and many other questions are explored in the 12 investigations into extraordinary cases that invite us to think deeply about mysterious events and our faith in God.

This volume, with over 80 beautiful full-color illustrations and large, easy-to-read type, can accompany you as you walk with the Saints each day of the year. A ribbon marker makes it easy to keep one's place in this rich treasury of Saints' lives.

Read about the lives of many familiar and some lesser-known Saints.

Be moved by their short, inspiring biographies.

Discover their trials and triumphs, their joys and sorrows.

Pray with them in mind.

Based on Saint Teresa of Avila's spiritual classic, this book is enchantingly adapted for children 7yrs. and up about a boy's journey into the riches of prayer.

Sure to captivate and inspire readers of all ages, The Interior Castle brings to life the soul's progress through prayer. Judith Bouilloc's engaging story is beautifully illustrated by award-winner Éric Puybaret, and promises a journey its readers will never forget!

A book that wonderfully combines an enchanting story with rich spirituality and gorgeous illustrations that will appeal to all ages.