Quaker History for Young People

FOR CHILDREN TO READ:

AMERICAN QUAKERS: PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORY edited and introduced by Wim Coleman. Discovery Enterprises, 1998. 66p.

Arriens, Jan. JOURNEYS IN THE LIGHT : QUAKER STORIES. 2007.

Australian Yearly Meeting. THE QUAKER WAY. General Meeting for Australia of the Religious Society of Friends, 1958. A very nice, concise picture of Quaker history and theology for junior high level.

Brimelow, Elizabeth. FRIENDLY FACERS - TALKING OVER SOME QUAKER ADVICES. Quaker Home Service, 1982.

Brimelow, Elizabeth. QUAKER QUESTIONS: TALKING OVER SOME QUAKER QUERIES. Quaker Home Service, 1982.

Brinton, Margaret. CANDLES IN THE DARK: AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES TO BE USED IN EDUCATION FOR PEACE. By Margaret Brinton, Mary Esther McWhirter, Caroline C. Pineo and Janet Schroeder. PYM Religious Education Committee, 1964. New revised edition, 1992.

TO LIGHT CANDLES IN THE DARK: A STUDY GUIDE. By Mary Esther McWhirter, Caroline Pineo and Janet Schroeder. PYM Religious Education Committee, 1968.

THE CHERRY STREET FRIENDS MEETING FOR DUMMIES: A SHORT HISTORY OF OUR MEETING HOUSE. Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting First Day School, 1998.

Combs, Susanna. COLOR ME QUAKER. Friends United Pr., 1987.

Elgin, Kathleen. THE QUAKERS: THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. With a foreword by Richmond P. Miller. McKay, 1968. Very fine book on Quaker history for elementary school level.

Fawell, Ruth M. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A QUAKER. Friends Home Service, 1963.

The FRIENDLY GUIDE TO QUAKERISM. 2003 (Very popular, published in Ireland.)

Goodrich, Maggie. QUAKER QUESIONS. Friends Education Council, 1973.

Hockett, Betty M. DOWN A WINDING ROAD: A VISUAL BIOGRAPHY OF MISSIONARIES ROSCOE AND TINA KNIGHT. Friends United Press, 1993. 18p. Picture book of Quaker missionaries in Bolivia, Mexico and Peru.

Lilly, Melinda. QUAKERS IN EARLY AMERICA. 2003. A simple introduction to William Penn, the Quakers, and their life in colonial Pennsylvania.

Mills, Florence. A QUAKER ALPHABET. Meeting House Tales Series. Opportunity Center, 1964.

QUAKERS. By Cobblestone, 1995. 48p. Delightful little booklet, colorfully illustrated, with accurate informtion supplied by Peggy Morscheck.

Sharman, Allison. YOU AND THE QUAKERS: A BOOK ABOUT THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Friends Home Service, 1977.

SOME LETTERS AND EXTRACTS FROM 'ROUND THE WOLD QUAKER LETTERS.' Ed. by Frances Menefy.

THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. Friends World Committee for Consultation, 1989. Outline of Quaker religious recognition which may be earned by Boy Scouts of Girl Scouts in grades 7-12.

THAT OF GOD. Friends World Committee, 1989. Outline of Quaker religious recognition which may be earned by Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts in grades 1-6.

THINGS FOR YOUNG FRIENDS TO FIND OUT. Fr. Central Bureau.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A QUAKER: A PAMPHLET FOR ELEVEN AND TWELVE YEAR OLDS BY A QUAKER MOTHER. Friends Home Service, 1946.

Williams, Jean Kinney. THE QUAKERS. Franklin Watts, 1998. 110p., ill.


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(See also other lists)

CURRICULUM: See lists on "Quakerism: Curriculum for Children
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: See list on Underground Railroad.
BIOGRAPHIES: See Quaker Biographies lists for Elementary School and for Junior High.
QUAKERISM: Fiction
QUAKERISM: Junior Fiction
AUDIOVISUALS: Quaker List