Books with author Franklin Josephine

Bessie found that it was so. There was the squirrel's head, twisted oddly on one side, in order to get a good view of his disturbers. His keen eyes were fixed anxiously on them, as though to discover the cause of their intrusion. Presently he leaped on a branch of a shrub, and sat staring solemnly at them."It can't be a squirrel," said Bessie, "after all; its tail is not half bushy or long enough.""It jumps like one," said Nellie, "and its eyes and ears are just like a squirrel's too. See, it's gray and white!"They approached slowly, the little animal permitting them to come quite close, and then the children saw that it was indeed a squirrel, but that its tail had, by some accident, been torn nearly half away."Perhaps it has been caught in a trap," suggested Nelly."Or in a branch of a tree," said Bessie. "Well, anyway, little Mr. Squirrel, we shall know you again if we meet you.""I should say," exclaimed Nelly, "that there must be plenty of nuts somewhere near us, or that gray squirrel would not be likely to be here."The two girls now set about searching for a hickory nut-tree, quite encouraged in the thought that their walk was to be rewarded at last. Nelly was right in her[16] conjecture. It was not long before they recognized the well-known leaf of the species of tree of which they were in quest. A small group of them stood together, not far distant, and great was the delight of the children to find the ground beneath well strewed with nuts, some of them lying quite free from their rough outer shells, others only partially opened, while many of them were still in the exact state in which they hung upon the tree. Of course the former were preferred by the little nut gatherers, but it was found that as these did not fill the bag and baskets, it was necessary to shell some of the remainder. Accordingly, Bessie selected a large flat stone, as the scene of operation, and providing herself with another small one, as a hammer, she began pounding the unshelled nuts, and by these means accumulated a second store; Nelly gathering them, and making a pile beside her, ready to be denuded of their hard green coverings.

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Harley lives in a high rise flat on an inner city estate, but his passion is for free running and survival skills. So when he sees an advert for a Bushcraft Survival Competition with his hero Mr. Wilderness, he is determined to enter! But he has never fended for himself in the wild, and his competitors are very experienced and all resolved to win . . . whatever it takes. Does Harley have the skills and courage to survive the weekend and win the competition so he can fulfill his dream and meet Mr. Wilderness himself?

This book is about a 12 year old boy from London who struggled to go to school for a year with school phobia. He bravely fought his anxieties to get over his fears. He now goes to school like a normal child and wanted to share his journey with you ....... The 12 year old author is donating all proceeds from the sales of his book to a special Alzheimer's charity that he knows.

They walked further on in very good spirits, climbing over rocks when they came to them, and swinging their empty baskets in time to snatches of songs which they sang together. They had gone in this way about a mile, when suddenly Bessie stopped, and fixed her eyes searchingly on something near them in the grass. "What is the matter?" said Nellie. "Hush, hush!" said Bessie, softly, "don't speak for a minute till I see! It's an animal!" "A bear?" exclaimed Nellie, in some alarm, quite unmindful of Bessie's request for silence, for Nelly was a little bit of a coward, and had a firm belief in all woods being full of wild animals. As she spoke, the noise seemed to startle whatever the creature was that Bessie was watching, for it ran quickly among the dried leaves that strewed the grass, and bounded on a high rock not far distant. Nellie and Bessie set off on an adventure and Bessie finds a new way to help her mother. Along the way the girls make new friends and Bessie loses a treasure - or was it taken?. Will she ever find it again? Join the girls in this heartwarming tale of friendship and life in a more innocent era

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