Gertie's Real-Life Adventures

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. Gerties third adventure climaxes her two previous ones and includes a community birthday parade for an unlikely birthday celebrant; Gerties being the volunteer in a demonstration of the pain-relieving properties of a new drug Novocain; and a surprise wedding. Woven throughout Gerties adventures are lessons of faith love and family unity. How these lessons affect Gertie her family and her friends make Gerties 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.