Amen McBee, the youngest of five sisters, gobbles up words the way other children gobble up sweets. She couldn't be more different from her elder twin sisters Arabella and Annabella-called the Bellas. The mischievous Bellas constantly frighten Amen with stories of Mr. Tominski-the old recluse who lives in the woods nearby and mysteriously tends to a flock of doves. The Bellas insist that Mr. Tominski is a dangerous bogeyman who eats children whole, but Papa vows that the "keeper of the doves" wouldn't hurt a soul. When tragedy strikes the family Amen must decide once and for all who is right.

Thomas is a seventeen-year-old who doesn't want to grow up and has little aspirations for anything beyond standing outside the local liquor store and getting drunk. But when he meets Bernard, the old and well known fag artist, he is offered something he cannot turn down. -- The Epilogue follows this book, and there is a sequel, The Rainbow, coming soon. Please see thedovekeeper.com for more details.

In this book, Nancy S. Williams emphasizes the development of higher-level thinking skills and critical discussion with intermediate and middle school struggling readers. Discussion questions and extension activities_specific to over 100 children's literature selections_are included.

The Doves and the Man with the Whip of Cords is a story based on the account of Jesus cleansing the Temple of the money changers from the Gospel of John. It is a dramatization using doves and ravens who encounter Jesus of Nazareth in a way that changes their lives forever. It takes a look at the sacrificial system of Ancient Israel that was replaced by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross—a better way of sacrifice for sin.

Keeper, a wandering dog, separated from his master along a busy street, has seen so much of the world and mankind, in his search after his master.