For Families · Ages 8–12

Radical Trust

Misha and the Ark — The greatest rescue story ever told, as witnessed by a dog.

Radical Trust: Misha and the Ark — book cover featuring a border collie against the backdrop of Noah's Ark
Book 1 of a New Series

Radical Trust

Misha and the Ark

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The rains are coming. The village has no idea. And Misha — a loyal border collie who has spent her life at the feet of the strangest man in the valley — is about to discover what it costs to trust a God she cannot see.

Radical Trust tells the story of Noah's flood through the eyes of his dog. From the moment she hears the hammers strike the first cedar beam to the morning she watches a rainbow arch across a washed-clean sky, Misha bears witness to one of history's most radical acts of faith. The water is real. The waiting is real. The doubt is real. And the God who closes the door is the same God who opens the sky.

For families who want a story that takes faith seriously — and a dog who takes her Master seriously, too.

Ages 8–12 Family Read-Aloud Homeschool Christian Fiction Devotional
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What's Inside

A Story and a Devotional in Every Chapter

Radical Trust is not a board book retelling or a simplified Sunday school summary. It is a full literary adventure — 35 chapters of honest, immersive storytelling — written for preteens who are ready for a story that takes their faith as seriously as they do.

The Story

Misha's narrative voice — precise, loyal, and deeply observant — carries the full flood account from the first cedar beam to the rainbow covenant. Each chapter puts the reader inside the story alongside a creature who witnessed it firsthand.

The Devotional

Every chapter closes with a Key Verse, a reflection prompt, a family discussion question, and a prayer prompt — making this as useful for a family read-aloud or homeschool study as it is for a solo reader.

35 chapters  ·  Scripture from NASB 2020  ·  Approx. 75,000 words

Why This Story

Your Kids Already Know the Ark. They've Never Seen the Flood.

Every child knows Noah's Ark — the bright wooden boat, the paired animals, the rainbow. But what did it feel like to live it? What did it cost Noah to keep building while his neighbors threw stones? What did the waiting feel like, week after week on the water with no land in sight?

Radical Trust does not sanitize the story. The book goes to the difficult places — with age-appropriate gravity — because preteens who have already encountered real difficulty will trust a story that does not pretend the world is easier than it is.

And they will trust Misha. Because she does not believe by thinking through arguments. She trusts because she has watched Noah trust, and she has been inside the closed door and survived. Her faith is earned through experience — which is exactly how faith works for most real people.

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