What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

May 2018: What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

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Fifth Annual Student Voices Project
Powerful Quakers by Lukas Austin
The Value of Loss by Emily Weyrauch
Selling Quakerism by Tom Hoopes
The Quaker Value of Testing by Asha Sanaker

May 2018 Books

May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Another Way to Climb a Tree

By Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Hadley Hooper. Roaring Brook Press, 2017. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8.…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Katie Green

May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Far Apart, Close in Heart: Being a Family When a Loved One Is Incarcerated

By Becky Birtha, illustrated by Maja Kastelic. Albert Whitman and Company, 2017. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4–8. With…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Alison James

May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Closeness Is Not Measured by Distance: A Dynamic Journal for Children of Incarcerated Parents

By Bernard Johnson and Bruce Bryan. Empowerment Agenda, 2015. 107 pages. $14.95/paperback. Recommended for ages 8 and up. The authors…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Alison James

May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Moto and Me: My Year as a Wildcat’s Foster Mother

By Suzi Eszterhas. Owlkids, 2017. 40 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 7–10. What a story! Suzi Eszterhas is a wildlife…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Lucinda Hathaway

May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Wishtree

By Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso. Feiwel and Friends, 2017. 224 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. How…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Judith Favor

May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Flowers for Sarajevo

By John McCutcheon, illustrated by Kristy Caldwell. Peachtree Publishers, 2017. 32 pages (plus audio CD). $19.95/hardcover and CD; $6.95/CD only.…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Dave Austin

May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball

By Dori Jones Yang. SparkPress, 2017. 256 pages. $12.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Recommended for ages 10–14. It seems almost anticlimactic when the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by James Foritano

Thomas Arthur Ryan Jr.

Ryan—Thomas Arthur Ryan Jr., 77, on October 17, 2017, in State College, Pa., of pneumonia, with his wife, Lauri, holding his…

William Tazwell Sledd III

Sledd—William Tazwell Sledd III, 81, on July 6, 2017, in East Lansing, Mich. Bill was born on August 25, 1935,…

Benjamin Harrison Thomas

Thomas—Benjamin Harrison Thomas, 76, on November 14, 2017, at home in Ukiah, Calif. Benj was born on March 15, 1941,…