title: Amy Carmichael: Rescuing the Children (Heroes for Young Readers)
author:  Renee Meloche 
description: Renee Meloche is the author of the Heroes for Young Readers series, written to inspire children to dream big, stand tall for God, and be a hero. A graduate YWAM's School of Creative Ministries, Renee has worked as a missionary overseas. She served aboard the mercy ship, the Anastasis, where she first dreamed of writing true stories that would encourage children to discover the wonder and joy that awaits them when they live their lives for God.
zlib_text: ### About the Author
  
  
  Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her published works include adult
  novels, children’s books and short stories. _Clear Light of Day_ (1980), _In
  Custody_ (1984) and _Fasting, Feasting_ (1999) were all shortlisted for the
  Booker Prize, and _The Village by the Sea_ won the _Guardian_ Award for
  Children’s Fiction in 1982. Anita Desai is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
  Literature in London, of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York
  and of Girton College at the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the
  Writing Program at M.I.T. and divides her time between India, Boston,
  Massachusetts and Cambridge, England. _In Custody_ was recently filmed by
  Merchant Ivory Productions.
  
  
  ### About the Book
  
  
  Nanda Kaul is now old. She has chosen to spend her last years alone among the
  pines and cicadas, high in the mountains in a quiet house, wanting only to be
  left in peace. However her solitude is broken with the arrival of her great-
  granddaughter, Raka