title: The A Life of Faith Collection: Elsie's Endless Wait / Millie's Unsettled Season / Violet's Hidden Doubts / Laylie's Daring Quest
author:  Martha Finley 
description: Available together for the first time, Mission City Press is<br> pleased to offer this wonderful literary collection that<br> contains the first novel in each of the four books in the A Life<br> of Faith historical fiction series for girls ages ten to fourteen.<br> Based on and adapted from bestselling nineteenth-century<br> stories and characters created by Martha Finley, these<br> timeless stories of faith, love, and family--with updated<br> language and enhanced features such as fascinating historical<br> forewords--will delight, captivate, and inspire a new<br> generation of readers.<br> Elsie's Endless Wait: A lonely, motherless, eight-year-old<br> Southern heiress growing up in the 1840s longs for the love<br> of her absent father and clings to her deep faith in God to<br> sustain her.<br> Millie's Unsettled Season: A lively and confident twelveyear-<br> old city girl living in Ohio in the 1830s must learn to<br> trust the Lord as her comfortable life is turned upside down<br> by her family's sudden move to the wild Indiana frontier.<br> Violet's Hidden Doubts: A creative and sensitive fourteenyear-<br> old Christian girl living in the late 1870s learns that<br> growing up brings new feelings, new questions, and new<br> challenges to her faith.<br> Laylie's Daring Quest: Against impossible odds, a brave and intelligent seven-year-old slave girl and her fifteen-yearold<br> brother secretly escape their Southern plantation to flee north, discovering not just physical freedom but also<br> spiritual freedom in Christ.
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