Books with title Turtle on a Fence Post

Supposedly God doesn't give people more burdens than they can bear, but Delrita thinks there may have been a mixup in the heavenly records. She's lost her parents and her beloved Uncle Punky within the space of three months, and though she has a comfortable home with Uncle Bert and Aunt Queenie, it's hard for her to get close to her prissy, superorganized aunt. Even the orderliness of her home is threatened when Aunt Queenie's father moves in. Sergeant Roebuck may be a World War II veteran, but he's also a cantankerous old man who spits tobacco into the plants, criticizes his daughter, and seems to resent Delrita.Delrita tries to find outside distractions--being a Teen Buddy for retarded Joey and developing her friendship with Avanelle and Tree Shackleford and their big, loving family, but she needs a place to hang her heart. It isn't until a class project forces her to spend time with Sergeant Roebuck that she learns that people aren't always what they seem and that, like a turtle on a fence post, she can find help in unexpected places.

The Turtle on the Fencepost is a short story about animals desperate to save their pond after learning that a pond sucking machine is going to suck their pond dry to make way for a skyscraper. A young boy named Lachlan Wade passing by the pond is befriended by the animals and he ends up helping them save their pond. This story has many morals including the collective talents of the animals and team work to learn about their fate and to figure out how to save their pond. The book also features some simple physics to amuse the parents and to delight the children who grow up and read it again for the first time.