title: The Return: Book Two of the Northkill Amish Series
author: J. M. Hochstetler and Bob Hostetler
description: Jakob Hochstetlers refusal to take up arms against the Indians who attacked his Amish familys home on the Pennsylvania frontier during the brutal raids of the French and Indian War cost the lives of his wife and two of his children. Carried away with his younger sons, Jakob is enslaved by the Seneca, while Joseph and Christian are adopted into different divisions of the Lenape tribe and struggle to adapt to new lives.<br /> <br />Jakob plots a perilous escape in spite of overwhelming odds against succeeding. But even if he can get away, could he survive a harrowing journey over the hundreds of miles of rugged terrain that lie between him and his Northkill community? Does home still exist? Are his older son and daughter, Johannes and Barbara, still alive? Will he ever find his boys and bring them home?
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  [Amish Frontier 01] Blossoms on the Roof
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I of _Amish Frontier_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Rebecca Martin
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Harvest House Publishers (2015)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ★★★★★
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Amish, Juvenile Fiction, Religious, Christian
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Amishttt Juvenile Fictionttt Religiousttt Christianttt
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The year 1894 brings hard times to the Yoders. When Father reads that free
  land is available in faraway North Dakota, the family packs up, says goodbye
  to family and friends, and boards the train for what they believe will be a
  better life out West. As soon as they step from the train onto the windswept
  prairie, however, they realize they have much to learn about homesteading.
  
  
  
  
  
  They hurry to build their thatched-roof, sod house even as they plant a garden
  and till the fields. With each new experience—including the wildfire and long
  cold winter—they learn to trust God, embrace the pione