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Matthew has an older brother and an older sister. Matthew has younger brothers and a younger sister. Sometimes, it's hard to know that you're important in a family like that! As his confirmation approaches, Matthew develops a new skill and finds a fun plac...

This full-color, illustrated storybook for moms and children imagines the adventures of their first nine months together—before meeting for the first time!

Put on your “seeing glasses” and take a trip with Angelo and Thomas through forests and ponds, snow-covered hills and sun baked deserts – and find surprising discoveries along the way! Follow Thomas as he begins looking beyond the surface of things and learns something new about people.

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The might of Islam threatened his world.

It’s the year 1570. Fourteen-year-old Guido Callatta, son of a wealthy Venetian merchant, spends his free time roaming the docks, listening to the tales of gnarled old sailors, and dreaming of adventures at sea.

But his carefree life is about to chan...

The first Christians to visit Europe and the British Isles met pagans who told tales of fairies, talking beasts, and other wonderful things. To these marvelous stories, they soon added new ones about the Christian saints. Some were true, others improbable, and many simply fantastic. In the ones w...

Saints have over the years inspired many tales that go beyond what we know about them. These pious fictions are delightful and can even be instructive. For the lovely legends of the saints that have come down to us reflect not only the holiness but also the gaiety of the saints. These Irish legen...

Victor, a fourth grader at St. Cletus Academy, just wants to skip the next forty days and get right to the fun of Easter. To make things worse, using his tools continually lands him in trouble, even when he’s trying to be helpful! With some help and understanding from Mom and Dad as well as his t...

Fresh off a championship medal, Jake is becoming overwhelmed by everyone who wants something from him: reporters, fans, girls, companies, his parents. He can't figure out who is real and who just wants something. To top it all off, his parents have dragged him to a middle-of-nowhere town in Color...

In this work of Biblical historical fiction, Ronni is a 21st-century American teenage girl who has lost her faith following the deaths of her father and brother, both of whom died saving the life of someone she doesn’t deem worthy. She can’t understand the concept of sacrifice—even Jesus’s death ...

From the scores of beautiful and thrilling tales in the Bible, celebrated British author Amy Steedman has collected three dozen that are sure to delight young children.

With the confidence of a master storyteller practiced in holding the attention of even the most restless child, she weaves ta...

For your children:

An old-fashioned "Retreat-in-a-Book" that helps them ponder the truths of the Faith and pursue lives of holiness in accordance with those truths.

Based on the traditional St. Ignatius retreat (trusted by Catholics for centuries) and adapted for children, this clear, simpl...

Because he was big and strong and sometimes slow to speak, Thomas Aquinas's schoolmates called him the Dumb Ox. Not long afterward, he came to be called Doctor (which means "teacher") because he could actually understand complicated things quickly and explain them well. Which is what he loved to ...

"I am Eve, the first woman God made. I have come to tell you about the creation of the world and what happened in Eden.”

So begins one of the many exciting lessons in this surprising adventure catechism — lessons taught by Abraham, St. Patrick, St. Cecilia, and, of course, Eve, the mother of a...

Bernadette doesn't know what to do when the principal, Sister Teresa Jerome, announces that her school will celebrate All Saints' Day with saint costumes. That means no Halloween costumes and no princess dress for Bernadette! Everyone else is excited about finding a great saint costume. But Berna...

For 2000 years now, young Christians have lived--and often died—for Christ, and with a courage that many adults find hard to muster.

Although she was just thirteen, in 304 AD, pagan authorities tortured and murdered brave Agnes of Rome for her Christian faith; for the same reason--and just ove...

Break-In at the Basilica is the second book in the Adventures with Sister Philomena series.

Luigi, a desperately poor man, breaks into the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, Italy, to steal something of great value. He hides behind the wooden choir stalls and waits for nightfall. The howl of...

Lost in Peter’s Tomb is the first book in the Adventures with Sister Philomena series, mystery adventures designed to present the stories of the saints in an intriguing and educational manner. Set in modern Italy, the stories follow a brother and sister in their adventures with their Aunt, who is...

Curse of the Coins is the third book in the Adventures with Sister Philomena series.

The 30 pieces of silver that Judas was paid for betraying Jesus were found in Israel. The Franciscan monks of Jerusalem sent the coins to the Vatican Museums for authentication and safekeeping – but then they ...

Secrets of Siena is the fourth book in the Adventures with Sister Philomena series.

Even nuns get to take a holiday! After all the investigations Sister Philomena’s conducted this summer, she needs one. In this adventure, Sister Philomena, her niece, Delaney, and nephew, Riley, are invited to ...

England, 1585: Queen Elizabeth’s spies lurk everywhere, searching out Catholics who refuse to attend the non-Catholic services of the State religion. Officers of the law hunt down and kill Catholic priests, and imprison those who shelter them.

In these perilous times, fifteen-year-old Nicholas...

For every half-dozen heroes antiquity could muster, Christendom produced thousands, and often from the strangest holes and corners. Instead of drying up the spirit of adventure, the Fire of Pentecost kindled it anew and made it burn with an unquenchable flame. The Master's parting instructions to...