Millie Keith Boxed Set 1-4

A Life of Faith: Millie Keith #1-4

by Martha Finley

This boxed set of the popular fiction books for girls includes the first 4 titles in the Millie's Unsettled Season (Book 1), Millie's Courageous Days (Book 2), Millie's Remarkable Journey (Book 3), Millie's Faithful Heart (Book 4).


Millie’s Unsettled Season, Book 1 (ISBN 1-928749-09-7)
Millie Keith is a bright, energetic, and happy twelve-year-old living in the charming town of Lansdale, Ohio, in 1833. Her world is about to be turned upside down when her Pappa announces that he is moving the family west to an undeveloped town on the Indiana frontier. The eldest daughter of eight lively children, Millie must shoulder responsibility for her mischievous brothers and sisters on the perilous journey and learn to trust God for her uncertain future. Will her Christian faith sustain her as she leaves behind friendships and everything she has ever known?

Millie’s Courageous Days, Book 2 (ISBN 1-928749-10-0)
Millie Keith put her faith in the promises of God when her parents moved the entire family out to the wild frontier, where life is full of surprises, adventure, and danger. But now Millie, just turned thirteen, finds her faith tested again when tragedy strikes her family, when she loses her best friend because of her faith, and when deadly fevers stalk the town. Can she trust God with life...and death?

Millie’s Remarkable Journey, Book 3 (ISBN 1-928749-11-9)
When fifteen-year-old Millie Keith prepared a Bible study teaching on the evils of slavery, she didn’t know that God was about to give her an opportunity to investigate the truth firsthand. To help cure her persistent cough, she leaves her family and frontier home in Indiana to visit the wealthy plantation in the South owned by her Uncle Horace Dinsmore. Will Millie have the courage to live out her faith amidst relatives she doesn’t know?

Millie’s Faithful Heart, Book 4 (ISBN 1-928749-12-7)
In 1837, when Millie Keith's parents sent her south to spend the winter with rich relatives, they gave her three pieces of honor your parents, honor God in all you do, and give your heart to Jesus. Millie thought those things would be easy, but alone at Roselands Plantation she finds her convictions tested in ways she could not have imagined. Will the high society lifestyle of the Dinsmore family change Millie?

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Christian Fiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2002

About the author

Martha Finley was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years. Finley wrote many of her books under the pseudonym Martha Farquharson.

For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_F... or, http://marthafinley.wordpress.com/

Reviews

[Hannah Loviisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved these books!

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite my negative reviews of the ORIGINAL Elsie Dinsmore series, I really liked the Millie Keith series. Perhaps it is because I could again relate to the main character. Or perhaps it was because I read the Life of Faith boxed set editions which have updated the language, abridged the story and modified some of the writing to be more understandable for women today. I liked the story line-moving forward to something more than simply marriage and underscoring the importance of the every-day mundane decisions a Christian must make. Unlike Elsie, Millie was full of failures. She realized them but didn't always find repenting or going to church fun or easy. She was slightly rebellious of the establishment. She was a strong, pioneering, ingenuous, free-thinking and strong woman. Everything that I found repulsive about Elsie, Millie was the opposite, endearing and inspiring. I learned a lot of history from this series, and was inspired to travel.

[Kyrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read all eight books in this series so many times, I've lost count.
What a wonderful example and role model Millie is for girls!
As I've gotten older, I've still kept this series as one of my favorites because of the clean, inspiring, and Christian content.
Finley writes about situations that girls today can relate to, and best of all, she is constantly tying in biblical lessons throughout each book.

I laughed, I cried, and I was so disappointed to finish the last book! I want more!
I highly recommend these books to all girls looking for something wholesome to read, in the world of Twilight and Hunger games.
This is definitely a series you'll want on your shelf!

[Jilly Bennett · Rating 5 out of 5]

I SO WISH that these books had been around when I was in junior high! These are Christian historical fiction. I thoroughly enjoyed them and grew in my faith from them -- and I read them as an adult! My mom read them, too, and she and I had so many great discussions. They influenced my current work as a writer of Sunday school curriculum for kids.

[Quinlyn Shaughnessy · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE these books. Millie is my favorite character in the series. She is strong, confident, smart and a pioneer (and of course, pioneers are awesome!). She is also funny and the situations that everyone has to get through are enjoyable to read about. You'll fall in love with characters other than Millie, especially Rhoda Jane and Gordon, Charles and Cyril and Don.

[Grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series because Millie, the protagonist in these books, is so easy to sympathize with and understand. I have read this series multiple times and always learnt something new that I can apply to my daily life as a Christian.