Reading plan · 14 days · 3 hr 11 min read

They Were Young: Two Weeks of True Stories

Two weeks of true stories for readers aged 13 to 17: both books of They Were Young — Called and Tested — one life a day, from Spurgeon in a snowstorm and Richard Allen in Delaware to Patrick, Perpetua and the Uganda Martyrs, each ending with questions to think through.

min/day
~14
books
2
finish, reading daily
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In this plan

Days 1–7 They Were Young – Book 1: Called 7 days · 1 hr 30 min read
About this book
  1. Introduction: Before You Were Grown 4 min Today
  2. Charles Spurgeon: The Boy Who Looked 15 min
  3. Samson Occom: The Boy Who Taught Himself to Read 14 min
  4. Robert Murray M’Cheyne: A Brother Who Cannot Die 16 min
  5. Billy Graham: The Boy Who Hid in the Choir 13 min
  6. Kanzo Uchimura: The Boy Who Prayed Against God 15 min
  7. Richard Allen: The Night the Dungeon Shook 14 min
Days 8–14 They Were Young – Book 2: Tested 7 days · 1 hr 40 min read
About this book
  1. Introduction: When Faith Is Tested 4 min
  2. Patrick: The Slave Who Prayed in the Snow 17 min
  3. Josephine Bakhita: The Girl Who Said No 15 min
  4. Perpetua: What a Thing Is Called 18 min
  5. The Uganda Martyrs: Singing on the Road to Namugongo 14 min
  6. John Newton: The Storm That Would Not Let Him Go 17 min
  7. Sadhu Sundar Singh: The Boy Who Waited for the Train 15 min