Books with author Jan Thornton Jones

“For I was hungry and you fed me; I was thirsty and you gave me water…When you did it to these my brothers you were doing it to me…” While sitting in church with her family, Sadie hears this scripture. On the way home from church on this bitterly cold and snowy night, Sadie sees a fire in the park and discovers for the first time that there are people who are without homes and who may be cold and hungry. With her mother’s help, Sadie decides to take some food and a warm blanket to the park where she leaves them at the stone statue of an angel. The word is spread at school, and soon other children and adults in the community begin to do the same. This is the story of a young child's ability to make a difference in her community. By doing so, has Sadie actually served an angel in disguise?

"Why Me?" is the story of Dallas, a very active and impulsive little boy who feels that troubles follow him everywhere. Because of the many problems that occur around him, he asks "Why Me? Why does everything always happen to me?" After falling off of a swing at school, Dallas ends up in the hospital with a broken leg. He feels sad because of his "bad luck" and is afraid that all of his friends are mad at him. Through the kindness and wisdom of an elderly man that he meets in the hospital, Dallas begins to realize that what he thought was "bad luck" is really the natural consequences of his own actions. Jan Thornton Jones is a retired early childhood teacher. Jan attended West Virginia University where she earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education, a master's degree in communication studies and another master's degree in early intervention special education. She resides in New Martinsville, West Virginia with her husband.

"Why Me?" is the story of Dallas, a very active and impulsive little boy who feels that troubles follow him everywhere. Because of the many problems that occur around him, he asks "Why Me? Why does everything always happen to me?" After falling off of a swing at school, Dallas ends up in the hospital with a broken leg. He feels sad because of his "bad luck" and is afraid that all of his friends are mad at him. Through the kindness and wisdom of an elderly man that he meets in the hospital, Dallas begins to realize that what he thought was "bad luck" is really the natural consequences of his own actions. Jan Thornton Jones is a retired early childhood teacher. Jan attended West Virginia University where she earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education, a master's degree in communication studies and another master's degree in early intervention special education. She resides in New Martinsville, West Virginia with her husband.

"For I was hungry and you fed me; I was thirsty and you gave me water...When you did it to these my brothers you were doing it to me..." While sitting in church with her family, Sadie hears this scripture. On the way home from church on this bitterly cold and snowy night, Sadie sees a fire in the park and discovers for the first time that there are people who are without homes and who may be cold and hungry. With her mother's help, Sadie decides to take some food and a warm blanket to the park where she leaves them at the stone statue of an angel. The word is spread at school, and soon other children and adults in the community begin to do the same. This is the story of a young child's ability to make a difference in her community. By doing so, has Sadie actually served an angel in disguise?

A sweet, funny new title from Marcia Thornton Jones, co-author of the wildly successful Bailey School Kids series!RILEY is awful at sports. He wants to quit the baseball team, but his dad won't let him give up. So when one bad swing brings a three-legged dog into his life, Riley feels like he's been thrown a curveball. How can he take care of a dog and make his dad proud? CHAMP is a former champion show dog. But when the accident that leaves him with Riley also leaves him with three legs, this dog has to learn some new tricks. Can Champ show Riley that winning doesn't always mean coming in first?Together, Riley and Champ make a great team, but not everyone thinks so. Could they be separated?

An evil old witch has taken Pandora Pumpkin's little sister and is turning her into a witch. With the help of the O'Lantern brothers, they try to find the witch's house in the woods. Spooky Story to read by candle light. What a great place to live in this fantasy land... A child does not need to be held by the hand... A child lies in the grass and looks up to the sky... To watch the clouds and the birds fly by... The sound of their laughter is refreshingly loud... Their innocence is like a snowy white cloud... I wish childhood would never go away... But growing up just gets in the way... Jan Thornton

A Spooky Haunted House with many haunted rooms and ghostly characters. Two children get lost in the woods. They come across an old woodsman who just happens to be a skeleton. He introduces himself as Captain Bones. He takes them to the nearest house in the woods. Captain Bones then ventures off to find their parents. Little did he know that he left the children with an evil old witch. This book is fun for all ages. Rhyming words