{"product_id":"gerties-real-life-adventures-9781498251983","title":"Gertie's Real-Life Adventures","description":"Description: Ten-year-old Gertie Larson shares three of her most exciting real-life adventures experienced in her hometown of Richfield, Utah, in the early 1900s. In her first adventure, her disappointment at not having a birthday party is unexpectedly overcome when she, her two sisters, her best friend, and a mentally handicapped youth she befriends are given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ride Jumbo the elephant in the circus parade  In her second adventure, a little Ute Indian girl, a \"\"What I Have to Be Thankful For\"\" essay contest, and a spooky encounter in an abandoned mine with \"\"the thing,\"\" move her story along to the third and final adventure. Gertie's third adventure climaxes her two previous ones and includes a community birthday parade for an unlikely birthday celebrant; Gertie's being the \"\"volunteer\"\" in a demonstration of the pain-relieving properties of a new drug, Novocain; and a surprise wedding. Woven throughout Gertie's adventures are lessons of faith, love, and family unity. How these lessons affect Gertie, her family, and her friends make Gertie's Real-Life Adventures joyful reading. About the Contributor(s): Jane Dahl has spent most of her eighty-plus years being a wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She has coauthored Look at Me, Please Look at Me; Teach Me, Please Teach Me; and I Am His (David C. Cook, 1973-l974.) She and her husband, Don, have been married for over sixty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dahl, Jane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Resource Publications (CA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781498251983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Jane Dahl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39834570129483,"sku":"9781498251983","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_481bcece-3a3a-43f9-a7e1-92ba5bc24fa4.jpg?v=1661272789","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/gerties-real-life-adventures-9781498251983","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}