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The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball

By Reviewed by James Foritano on May 1, 2018

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 […]

James Foritano attends Cambridge (Mass.) Meeting.

Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

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Papaw

By Carol Wills on January 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: “I remember him as a child remembers: / he was my Papaw…”

Carol Wills lives in Durham, N.C.

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Maybe God Is Like That Too

By Reviewed by Dee Ann Birch Cameron on December 1, 2017

FJ Review: “Benjamin Schipper’s colorful, cartoon‐like illustrations of big city life came as a welcome surprise, in contrast to the bucolic […]

Dee Cameron is a member of El Paso (Tex.) Meeting. She is a grandmother and a retired school librarian.

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, December 2017 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews

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James Harold Booth

By Staff on October 1, 2017

Booth—James Harold Booth, 78, on August 14, 2016, in Lansing, Mich. Jim was born on July 17, 1938, in Baldwin, […]

Posted in: Conscience, Milestones

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Ah, Go Fly a Kite!

By Charles G. Jones on September 1, 2017

Paper, glue, wind, and metaphors at the FGC Gathering.

Charles “Chuck” Jones is a member of Chattanooga (Tenn.) Meeting. Chattanooga is where he flies kites and lives with his wife. He is a retired math teacher who is a woodworker and blacksmith. This past May, he became a graduate of the School of the Spirit.

Posted in: Features, September 2017

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Wild Birds, Fantasy, and the Possible

By James W. Hood on September 1, 2017

A memoir through books.

James W. Hood teaches nineteenth-century British literature, composition, and American nature writing at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. He is a member of Greensboro’s Friendship Meeting.

Posted in: Online Features, September 2017

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Quaker Students’ Reading List for President Trump

By staff on May 1, 2017

24 book recommendations from the Student Voices Project.

Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project

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Pond

By Reviewed by Tom and Sandy Farley on May 1, 2017

By Jim LaMarche. Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2016. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. Pond is a […]

Sandy and Tom Farley are members of Palo Alto (Calif.) Meeting and coauthors of Earthcare for Children, a curriculum they are currently revising.

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker Summers, Young Friends Bookshelf

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The Storyteller

By Reviewed by Katie Green on May 1, 2017

By Evan Turk. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016. 48 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $4.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. Occasionally a book […]

Katie Green is a member of Worcester (Mass.) Meeting and a professional storyteller. She has told stories at the Friends General Conference Gathering and New England Yearly Meeting annual sessions.

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker Summers, Young Friends Bookshelf

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