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    Jake's Big Adventures
    Jake's Big Adventures
    Jake's Big Adventures
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    Jake's Big Adventures

    By J. William Turner

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    Jake is a young boy from the east coast of Australia who lives in the small tropical town of Coconut. Like all young boys with big imaginations, he loves to have fun and adventure, and Coconut is just the place to be, with many other children to play with and unusual grown-up people to teach them all about life.
    But Jake is luckier than most boys this year, with an imagination and good fortune that allows him to have the best Easter experience ever in his life, a chance to fly halfway around the world for Christmas to a very cold, icy city, one so different from warm, humid Coconut, and an offer to travel back in time on New Year's Day to a place before people. Easter, Christmas and New Year’s Day will always hold special memories for him as he grows up.

    Set in Australia and northern Norway, Jake’s Big Adventures narrates these three unusual adventure stories from Jake’s life filled with wonder, magic, craziness and amazement.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. William Turner
    Release dateAug 3, 2017
    ISBN9781370077397
    Jake's Big Adventures
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    J. William Turner

    See above website for author info plus the website http://www.eloquentbooks.com/DangerousDays.html Also, search these titles on Amazon Kindle along with author name:- Storm Ridge, Paddle Hard, Outback Heroes, Enemies Within, Street Kid, High Country, California Dreaming, and Aftermath.

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      Jake's Big Adventures - J. William Turner

      JAKE’S BIG ADVENTURES

      By J. William Turner

      Contents

      JAKE’S MAGICAL EASTER ADVENTURE - Page 1

      (Copyright 2009)

      JAKE’S CRAZY CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE - Page 15

      (Copyright 2016)

      JAKE’S AMAZING DREAMTIME ADVENTURE - Page 31

      (Copyright 2016)

      Jake is a young boy from the east coast of Australia who lives in the small tropical town of Coconut. Like all young boys with big imaginations, he loves to have fun and adventure, and Coconut is just the place to be, many children to play with and unusual grown-up people to teach them about life.

      But Jake is luckier than most boys this year, with an imagination and good fortune that allows him to have the best Easter experience ever in his life, a chance to fly halfway around the world to a very cold, icy city, one so different from warm, humid Coconut, and an offer to travel back in time to a place before people.

      Easter, Christmas and New Year’s Day will always hold special memories for him as he grows up.

      Jake’s Big Adventures tells these three unusual adventure stories from Jake’s life filled with wonder, magic, craziness and amazement.

      JAKE’S MAGICAL EASTER ADVENTURE.

      It was the last Thursday night in late-March, and Jake went to bed feeling really happy. Term One at the town’s junior school, Coconut Primary, had just ended. Tomorrow was the first day of the Easter holidays, as he was looking forward to the fun he was going to have. That was all Jake could think about as he drifted off to sleep.

      GOOD FRIDAY (morning).

      The sun was already high in the sky when Jake found himself suddenly aware of the world around him. No school for two weeks! he said happily. This is going to be so cool! But what should I do? After thinking quietly for a few seconds, Jake had a good idea.

      I know, I’ll go on a long walk, an Easter adventure, to see the town and all its silly people, he thought, as he rose from his bed, put on his favourite T-shirt and cut-off denim shorts with frayed hems, and found his rucksack in the bottom of the bedroom wardrobe.

      Into the rucksack he put a tent, sleeping bag, box of matches, a water bottle, fishing line plus hooks and sinkers, a large pocket-knife, plastic plate and cup, and extra clothes. But he did not pack any food. He wanted to try living off the land, especially bananas, but eat ‘take-away’ if he could not find any food in the forest. In his pants pocket was all of the money he had saved in six months from his weekly allowance.

      Before leaving home, Jake made himself breakfast. He ate two duck eggs on toast, four large wattle-seed biscuits covered with sweet sherbet powder, and milk from a water buffalo. With his meal he drank a glass of pure wild-blackberry juice.

      When his tummy was full, he stepped out through the front door, and set off on his long walk. Away in the distance, he saw a huge black cloud. A big tropical rain storm was coming, and the church bell rang to warn everyone. But Jake did not worry. The rain would give his mango and paw-paw trees a good watering.

      A minute later, he saw a man, wearing a big hat, hitting the trunk of a palm tree with a plastic toy baseball bat. The palm tree was full of sleeping fruit bats. Jake asked, Why are you doing that?

      The man yelled as loudly as he could, I’m trying to wake them up! Their snoring is too loud!

      What a strange grown-up person, Jake said to himself, and he walked on until the rainstorm came.

      To keep dry, he stood under a tall oak tree while the rain fell all around him. Then the deluge stopped, the sun came out, and Jake started off on his Easter adventure once more.

      Twenty minutes later, he saw another man wearing a red-white-and-blue clown suit. This man was throwing giant pineapples at a fence made of bamboo stalks. When Jake stopped to watch, the man said, This is good exercise. You ever tried it?

      Jake shook his head at the silly question, and answered, No, I think it’s a dumb idea, and a waste of good pineapples.

      The man did not say anything else, so Jake became bored and walked away thinking, How many more strange people am I going to meet?

      He soon came to a hospital. Here, a doctor was doing an operation in the car park cutting large bananas in half. When he was finished, the doctor lit a barbecue to grill the halves of banana. But the fire was too hot, and the bananas burst into flames. A huge cloud of yellow smoke rose

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