A Time of Peace contains 30 narratives. 4 selections of Bible prose, 12 English poems, and 10 essays. Study exercises follow each selection. Vocabulary and comprehension exercises are more extensive in this book than in Grade 6 and 7.

The teacher's manual provides some background information, oral reading pointers, and an answer key. Additional notes are given on the origin of many of the vocabulary words.

Table of Contents

• 1. The Dime Store Cotton
• 2. Beautiful Things
• 3. A Strange Turn of Events
• 4. The Little Man of Exceptional Stature
• 5. Which of the Nine?
• 6. The Ways of a Bear
• 7. Snared in the Net
• 8. Drop a Pebble in the Water
• 9. Isaac Watts
• 10. The Search for a Word
• 11. My Day
• 12. Micha's Thanks
• 13. Myself
• 14. One Dark Night
• 15. The Frailty and Brevity of Life
• 16. The Rickshaw Puller of Calcutta
• 17. How Did the Water Get Into the Watermelon?
• 18. The Man He Came to Save
• 19. The Pineapples and the Bee
• 20. Letitia's Plea
• 21. The Price of Disobedience
• 22. The Legend of Kate Shelley
• 23. Who Hath Weighed the Mountains?
• 24. Going After a Job
• 25. Mischief Making
• 26. The Forgiven Debt
• 27. The Lord's Reply to Job
• 28. The Forgotten Watermelon
• 29. Rules for Improvement by Conversation
• 30. Stick to Your Bush
• 31. The Arrow and the Song
• 32. The Boy and Hushwing
• 33. The Pharisees Confront Jesus
• 34. Just Short of Eternity
• 35. An Impossible Creature
• 36. Hans Hut-Twice Burned
• 37. Don't Stand in the Way
• 38. The One-Way Command
• 39. Paul Experiences Shipwreck
• 40. Black Pirate of the Peaks
• 41. Clean and I
• 42. Planting Time Is in the Spring
• 43. Of Pots and Potters
• 44. The Observing Judge
• 45. Little and Great
• 46. We'll Let Them Borrow
• 47. Meditation on God's Mighty Power
• 48. Great Possessions
• 49. The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
• 50. The Gift and the Giver
• 51. Born to Fly
• 52. My Struggle for an Education
• 53. The Destruction of Sennacherib
• 54. The Treasure in the Cave
• 55. A More Excellent Way
• 56. A Memory of the Redwoods
• 57. As the King Passed By
• 58. The Cries in the Cabin
• 59. A Walk in a Graveyard
• 60. The Story of John Wycliffe