The Tender Years
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN-13
- 9780764205279
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Tender Years opens Janette Oke's A Prairie Legacy series, an inspirational fiction novel published in 1997 at 272 pages. It's the first of four books, followed by A Searching Heart.
Key facts about The Tender Years
The Tender Years is a novel by Janette Oke. Readers have had it since 1997. It runs to 272 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Tender Years. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780764205279 to find the main one.
The Tender Years is book 1 of 4 in A Prairie Legacy series. The series has 4 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Janette Oke writes Love Comes Softly, Seasons of the Heart and Canadian West, plus 5 more series. Those series sit on our inspirational fiction, historical inspirational fiction and biblical historical fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Unfailing Love is the latest published Janette Oke book on file, from 2022.
About Janette Oke
Janette Oke (born February 18, 1935, in Champion, Alberta, as Janette Steeves) is a Canadian author widely credited with founding the modern inspirational prairie-romance genre. A graduate of Mountain View Bible College in Didsbury, Alberta, where she met her husband Edward, she raised four children before publishing her debut novel, Love Comes Softly, in 1979. See every Janette Oke book in order.
Its place in A Prairie Legacy
The Tender Years is book 1 in the A Prairie Legacy series. It is followed by A Searching Heart. See the full A Prairie Legacy reading order.
A Prairie Legacy is a direct continuation of Oke's earlier Love Comes Softly world, following Virginia "Jenny" Marshall -- a great-granddaughter of the original Love Comes Softly family -- as a young woman coming of age on the prairie a generation or two after the events of that series. Across four books published over four consecutive years in the late 1990s, Jenny works through her education, early independence, faith, and eventual courtship and marriage, giving Oke's original fictional family one more full…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780764205279