In the late 1830’s it was told that a Great White Spirit came to the Arapaho people and slew their enemy. Whether true, exaggeration or a myth to scare children, it spread from tribe to tribe, like a plague. Among the Plains Indians of the Kansas Territory, the Legend of Badger Claw was born.

Jake is a boy who has to go to the doctor a lot. He used to be afraid of needles, but not anymore because he has learned how to be brave! Brave Jake is easy to read and a great length for busy pediatric doctor

Scaredy Jake is a story about a little dog who lived on the streets with other stray dogs and was very afraid, especially of humans. When he is captured, he thinks his life is over. In his journey, he finds humans may not be so bad after all. By facing his fear, he finds a loving home.

Jake and Josh in The Blanket Rescue is a story about the meaning of friendship and overcoming fears. Jake and Josh gave up their cribs for toddler beds and they made it through the first night without calling mom or dad for comfort. Josh made it without help, but Jake needed his Little Blue Blanket. It made him feel safe. In the morning, Jake is shocked to learn his mother is about to send his Little Blue Blanket to the church rummage sale. Jake and Josh call on their friends Ella, Corrigan, and Milo to rescue the Little Blue Blanket. Their adventure will challenge each child to face a fear. As they help one another along the way, the children learn that friends should always help friends and what it means to truly feel safe.

Abigail Johannes wasn't interested in romance. Jake Murphy couldn't stand physical contact. They were perfect for each other. When a troubled young man named Jake moves into the little yellow house, he struggles to overcome a painful past and begin a new life outside the prison walls that he had known for so long. Abby's future is secure - or so she had thought. With the prospect of marriage to a childhood friend, and the opportunity to attend college, Abby's life seems already determined. Then the new neighbor arrives, and Abby finds she must learn compassion. As she befriends Jake, the young woman wonders where her future really lies.

Meet Jake: human, husband, curator of relics, bearer of burdens, troublemaker, fool, father of two. As his daughter tells it, I wished my father would change the world and fix every broken thing. But oh no, no, not him. More than anything, he loved paper. Paper, paper, paper. Mountains of paper. He couldnt get enough of it. He wrote on ithe wrote and wrote and wrote. He traveled somehe wrote about that. He walked a lothe wrote about that. He worked in bookstores and wrote about that. He worked in museums and wrote about that. I speak of my father, Jacob Friedman Wright, most of whose life was lived in a time when computers were still a novelty, and there was not yet the Internet. He was a collector. His house was filled with stuff, flea market finds, thrift shop junk. He would pick things up off the street. Seriously. He collected artifacts, as he called them. And books. Books about the arts and crafts movement, mainly, along with every sort of miscellaneous book about life on earth, philosophy, planets, and physics. If the book was published in the year 1912 or the author had been born or had died in the year 1912, so much the better. In Camperdene, Massachusetts, as it happened, they had been looking for a new curator for their Museum of the Year 1912. After the Museum Association's Board of Directors had appointed my father curator, the Chairman, Wallace Barrow, had moved in close to him, had placed a long arm around his shoulder, and had whispered ominously, Don't get this wrong, Jacob Wright. You're the dog. Don't let the tail wag you. You could say this book is the story of how the tail wagged him.

Follow the life journey of Jake MacCandless through his carefree young years, the horrific WWI, cherish his love years till his last days. Laughter and tears in every chapter. Enjoy the read.