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    Joshua's Collection
    Joshua's Collection
    Joshua's Collection
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    Joshua's Collection

    By Jeff Cross

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    Joshua’s Collection is a grouping of five short stories designed to open conversations with children. Knowing the importance of teaching today’s youth high moral character and strong values, the author uses an entertaining method to bring parents closer to their children.

    Each story will inspire your child to ask questions while the story is read. At the end of each story, Joshua learns a new and important lesson. The stories are kept short to prevent outrunning young attention spans.

    The First Crow – Learn to listen and don’t brag
    Joshua’s Fear – Dealing with fear by facing it
    The Great Hunters – Learn what instigating may cause
    Big ‘un – Learning to appreciate what you have
    Tippy – Understanding that pets have feelings too

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeff Cross
    Release dateFeb 4, 2011
    ISBN9781476066851
    Joshua's Collection
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    Jeff Cross

    Above all, I'm a father and a grandfather. I've began writing first to entertain my family, hence my fiction novels for children. When I began getting lots of calls about technical information concerning my job, I decided to write some non-fiction books. I am an ICC certified combination inspector for a small to mid-sized city in East Texas. With the background in construction and the education from several apprinticeships I've been able to obtain several trade license including a masters. I now do consulting for home construction and I'm working on a series of books to help the common man (or woman) understand how plumbing and electrical systems work.

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      Joshua's Collection - Jeff Cross

      joshua’s collection

      By Jeff Cross

      JCrossBooks.com

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      Copyright © 2010 by Jeff Cross

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means be it electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or any other without the prior written permission of the author. Quotations in critical reviews or articles are exempt from this statement.

      The five short stories you are about to enjoy:

      the first crow

      joshua’s fear

      the great hunters

      tippy

      big’un

      the first crow

      Joshua sat on a limb of a mesquite tree, watching the chickens peck. They had pecked and scratched at the ground until there wasn’t even one blade of grass in the yard. The fenced chicken yard was about forty feet across and forty feet deep. A heavy growth of weeds and cactus circled it, stopping at the fence.

      Once in a while a grasshopper landed in the yard, and the hens fought over the morsel of fresh food like Joshua’s brothers would fight over a piece of hard candy. The battles were quite entertaining, and sometimes they’d become so fierce that the grasshopper would escape.

      Today, as Joshua watched, an unusual thing occurred. A coachwhip entered

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