Anna's Decision
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Anna ran toward the barn as fast as she could. "I can't wait to see that new baby calf," she cried. As she ran past Grandma's house, she heard a mother hen clucking. She stopped to look through the pasture fence and saw Old Fussy Hen with her chicks. "I didn't know you hatched your babies already," Anna said. As Anna walked across the grass-covered ditch, beside the weeping willow tree, she looked down so she wouldn't stumble. She saw a jagged silver rock sparkling in the sunlight and she picked it up to look at it. Anna held the shiny rock and looked at Old Fussy Hen with her chicks all around her. She didn't trust Old Fussy Hen. Throwing the rock might scare Old Fussy Hen away long enough so she could catch a chick.
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About the Book
Meet Anna Wood, an eight-year-old girl living on a farm in the beautiful Willamette Valley of Oregon. She loves all the animals on the farm, but she has a special fascination for the hens and their chicks. There is one hen in particular, Old Fussy Hen, that Anna is afraid of. She wants to hold a chick badly enough to make a decision that alters her life and the life of a chick. She finds herself lying when she knows she should tell the truth.
This early chapter book, Anna's Decision, shows how making unwise, spur-of-the-moment decisions can change someone’s life. It portrays a family working together to encourage Anna through problem-solving, love, and understanding. Anna learns that telling the truth is the only way to go. She finds out that God performs miracles and works all things together for good to those who love Him (Romans 8:28).
About the Author
Author Julie Mancil is a certified/retired elementary teacher. She now home schools her two granddaughters. She has two writing certificates from the Institute of Children’s Literature and has taken several classes from American Writers and Illustrators. Julie and her husband, Steve, live in Smiths, Alabama. As a child, Julie learned that God works all things together for good to those who love Him (Romans 8:28).