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Children & Teen Nonfiction

Propaganda is appearing in books for children of younger and younger ages in order to accustom them to destructive ideas. These conservative books/ebooks/audio book choices combat propganda towards children AND teens in nonfiction form and are relative to Children and Teens (depending on individual interest and maturity).

August 2024

TEEN: How Teens Win: The Student's Guide to Accomplishing Big Goals

By: Jon Acuff, L.E. Acuff & McRae Acuff

Baker Books / 2024 / Paperback

Do you have life figured out yet? If not, congratulations--you're a normal teenager!

That said, whether we know it or not, our lives leave clues about what matters to us. If we ignore those signals too long, we can end up missing opportunities and wasting time and energy drifting along or, worse yet, setting our course for the wrong destination. That's why every student should get to know who they are so they can start exploring the life they want. How Teens Win is a map to the very best treasure you'll ever discover--yourself. Your potential. Your possibility. Your future. We know the journey of self-discovery and adulting can be annoying sometimes. In this book we'll share a fun, simple process for better understanding your potential so you can start to formulate goals and plans that matter to you. Who will you become? How will you win? We're about to find out. Purchase book HERE.

Jon Acuff is the New York Times bestselling author of 9 books, including Soundtracks, All It Takes Is a Goal, and the Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller Finish. When he's not writing or recording his popular podcast, All It Takes Is a Goal, Acuff can be found on a stage as one of INC's Top 100 Leadership Speakers. He's spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences, colleges, and companies around the world, and has written for Fast Company, the Harvard Business Review, and Time magazine. L.E. Acuff and McRae Acuff are Jon's daughters and coauthors with him of Your New Playlist. The family lives outside of Nashville.

July 2024

Teen: Introduction to Logic: Informal Fallacies

by Dr. Jason Lisle

Logic is the study of the principles of correct reasoning. That is its definition. To be logical is to think rightly, and to draw reasonable conclusions from the available information. Why does logic matter, and who decides what is the “right” way to think? If two people disagree on whether something is reasonable, who is correct? What is the standard by which we judge a particular line of reasoning to be correct or incorrect? In the Christian worldview, we can answer these questions because we know that God determines the correct way to reason. He is the standard for all truth claims. In this book you will learn about logic and the Christian worldview, the Biblical basis for the laws of logic, if faith is contrary to reason, informal logical fallacies, and more.

June 2024

6th Grade History Cirriculum Course

by Ron Paul

This course encourages initiative, work ethic, responsibility, leadership, and skill development. Beginning with Geology and moving through Plant Science, Gardening, Conservation, Weather, and Landscape Architecture, students explore how the earth works and how to apply this knowledge!

Course Outline click HERE. Purchase Course Click HERE

May 2024

Autobiography of Mark Twain - 100th Anniversary Edition

by Mark Twain

Within your hands is a glimpse into the life, mind, soul, and "truth" of cherished American icon, Mark Twain. This uncensored autobiography is not only a legacy he left behind, but also a gift to all. Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He grew up on the shores of the Mississippi River and took his pen name from the way Mississippi steamboat crews measured the river's depth (the cry "Mark twain!" meant the river was at least 12 feet deep and safe to travel).

Twain wrote prolifically, publishing novels, travelogues, newspaper articles, short stories, and political pamphlets. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). On the surface, these novels are gripping adventure stories of boys running free on the Mississippi. However, on a deeper level, these novels are also serious works of social criticism. Written while America was still recovering from the Civil War and adjusting to the abolition of slavery, Twain's two best-known Mississippi River adventure tales also measure the depth of America's new economic and social realities.

His most personal and insightful writing came when he created his, "Final (and Right) Plan"-a free-flowing biography of the thoughts and interests he had toward the end of his life as he spoke his "whole frank mind". Along with the plan, came the instruction that the enclosed autobiography writings not be published in book form until 100 years after his death.

Now, we honor the life and writings of Mark Twain by publishing his personal opus-to reacquaint ourselves with the wit, wisdom, and ideals of this legendary American icon.

April 2024

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

by Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum Exhibit

God’s handiwork in the womb, as he knits us together, is largely unseen until a child is born. Through lifelike models and a detailed foldout timeline of development, you (and your children) will be fascinated by the miracle of life—from fertilization through birth! Also included in the book is a behind-the-scenes timeline showing the process to create the exhibit.

March 2024

"David Copperfield"

by Charles Dickens.

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”The most autobiographical of Dickens’s novels, this coming-of-age tale I can only describe as a golden book—golden in its wisdom, golden in its charm, and golden in the warmth and light it provides. It depicts all the fluctuations of life, from childhood to middle age, giving a broad view of the human condition and particularly the process of growing up. It captures the vicissitudes of life, where joy is swiftly exchanged for sorrow and sorrow for joy, yet with an undercurrent of hope running through them all. The characters are delightful, their personalities writ large, almost caricatures, yet somehow still deeply authentic. It mixes humor, joy, and sorrow in just the right proportions as we follow the progression of young David Copperfield’s life from infancy well into manhood.

February 2024

Who Am I? Solving the Identity Puzzle

By Martyn Iles; Foreword by Ken Ham

The identity crisis compels us to look in all the wrong places to answer the question “Who am I?” But can the popular “my truth” and “their truth” provide the solutions they promise? What is the solid foundation of “the truth” that solves the identity puzzle?

It Starts by Asking a Very Different Question ...

“Who am I?” A new generation is preoccupied with the question of identity, and it’s getting complicated.

We see a rise in psychological counseling, genders and sexualities, identity politics, and obsession with the self. The identity crisis is making us look at ourselves to come up with subjective answers based on how we feel and lists of attributes supplied by political activists, ideologues, and pop culture.

But do the shifting sands of “my truth” and “their truth” hold the answers? What is the solid foundation of “the truth” that solves the identity puzzle once and for all?

January 2024

The Abolition of Man

—By C. S Lewis

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

Widely regarded as one of Lewis’ most important works and listed in seventh place in National Review’s 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century, The Abolition of Man is a devasting critic of relativism and a powerful defense of universal values. In well under 100 pages, Lewis offers a dark and prophetic vision of the world we inhabit today and how “man’s conquest of nature” will ultimately prove to be “nature’s conquest of man”.

The Constitution of Liberty

By F. A. Hayek

The Constitution of Liberty represents Hayek’s clearest views on liberty and Western civilization. Here Hayek isn’t writing about a specific nation or time, but about universal principles of liberty and the perpetual and ubiquitous arguments levelled against liberty. Ever the stalwart opponent to the expanding state, Hayek argues that the surest safeguard for liberty is found in the free market, the rule of law, and the constitutional order.

“If old truths are to retain their hold on men’s minds, they must be restated in the language and concepts of successive generations. What at one time are their most effective expressions gradually become so worn with use that they cease to carry a definite meaning. The underlying ideas may be as valid as ever, but the words, even when they refer to problems that are still with us, no longer convey the same conviction.” —Friedrich A. Hayek

• “The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison”

By Raymond Arroyo

From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes the first book in the Turnabout Tales series—a picture book biography of one of America’s most famous inventors, Thomas Alva Edison, and a story about how a small spark can create a big light.

No one thought much of young Thomas Alva Edison. He couldn’t focus at school and caused trouble around the house. But where others saw a distracted and mischievous boy, his mother saw imagination and curiosity. At only seven years old, Alva was educated by his mother at home, who understood his potential could be unlocked with non-conventional learning, allowing him freedom to explore, dream, and be inquisitive. Those early years of encouragement and loving guidance shaped Al’s future and formed the man who would apply those valuable lessons to inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the light bulb, and more.

In The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison you and you children and grandchildren will:

-- meet the larger-than-life personality of Thomas Alva Edison

-- hear an inspiring tale of how failures and struggles can lead to milestones and achievements

-- learn about the power of curiosity and imagination

-- take a carefully researched and actively told romp through history

The Turnabout Tales series highlights little-known yet fascinating stories of historical figures who went from underdog to hero, and the adults who inspired them to be true to themselves and do big things that changed the world. -- AMAZON 

“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity & Hope” —By William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of the survival and perseverance of a heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.

When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. He came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land and survive. “If you want to make it, all you have to do is try” is the final line of this non-fiction story by Kamkwamba and his message is clearly demonstrated throughout the book.

Retold for a younger audience, this exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. Complete with photographs, illustrations, and an epilogue that will bring readers up to date on William's story, this is the perfect edition to read and share with the whole family. – Epoch Times