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When CNN citizen journalist Neal Moore slid his canoe into the headwaters of the Mississippi River to begin a 2,300-mile odyssey across the midsection of the United States, he was acutely aware of another American who filled his tales with what he saw and heard along the river: Mark Twain. Neal was doing what every self-respecting Twain-enthusiast wishes to do. He was on The River. And in it. And alongside it. He was in bright sun and harm's way. Neal was attracting characters as they attracted him, and their stories poured forth. Whether interviewing a Delta musician singing the economic blues, an Ojibwe dancer sharing a secret tradition, or an inmate doing 25 to life at "The Farm," Moore's stories are imbued with the most common of all American traits: optimism.

Rachel Mason is in the fifth grade. She is nice. She is pretty. But mostly, she is smart. Rachel has a lot of nice friends. She has a love for reading and a talent for writing. She even has a dream to grow up and be a teacher someday. But Rachel has something else ... a secret. And she is smart enough to keep this secret to herself.

Jax, a young dinosaur who didn't look quite like his family, discovers why God created him the way he looks and what special gifts he has to help others. Come with Jax on his adventure to discover how God makes each of us to love and help others in our everyday life-at school, home, or play. I John 4:7 Dear Friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Quail is on a quest for a special quill. Does her adventure end the way she had hoped? Find out this and more in this book centered around the letter "Q."