Cornerstone Academics
The Silver Cup of Wieringen and Other Stories
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The Cornerstone Story Collection โ High School
Four complete stories in one volume, written for readers in grades 9โ12.
โOnce is enough.โ
The night the Spaniards came to the island of Wieringen, Tijmen's father pressed a small leather pouch into his hands. Plain silver. No mark but a nail-scratched cross on the foot. In the Low Countries in 1573, possessing a Reformed communion cup is evidence of heresy โ and the soldiers are already searching the parsonage.
What follows is a journey across the Zuiderzee through storm, ice, and siege, and three more stories of people holding to something when holding costs them. A masterless samurai in the ruin after a great battle, choosing not to draw. A weaver in plague-emptied Flanders, working to finish a Resurrection tapestry for a church that may have no one left to see it. A lighthouse keeper's daughter on a lonely Scottish rock, tending the light through the longest night of her life โ and every night after.
Inside: The Silver Cup of Wieringen ยท The Undrawn Sword ยท The Unfinished Tapestry ยท The Daughter of the Lighthouse Keeper
Faith content: Explicitly Christian. The title story follows a Reformed pastor's household during the Spanish persecution of Protestants, and The Unfinished Tapestry turns on a Resurrection panel woven for a church. The other two stories โ feudal Japan and the Scottish coast โ are about restraint and faithfulness rather than Christian doctrine.
A note for parents: These stories deal honestly with religious persecution, war, and plague. There is an execution, the aftermath of a siege, deaths within families, and the loss of a parent โ all handled soberly rather than graphically. Best for readers fourteen and up.
Ideal for the classical or Charlotte Mason high-school reader, for family read-aloud and discussion, and for anyone who wants literature that forms character without ever preaching.
Grades 9โ12 ยท Ages 14โ18
This volume includes four complete stories:
- The Silver Cup of Wieringen
- The Undrawn Sword
- The Unfinished Tapestry
- The Daughter of the Lighthouse Keeper
Choose your format: Paperback (6 x 9 in, approx. 160 pages, printed and shipped) or EPUB ebook (instant digital download).
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