Just Like Jonah Wail Tales

Just Like Jonah Wail Tales is a collection of six stories designed to inspire and teach preteens and young teens the importance of seeking God, and seeking God early. In each of the stories, the kids make bad choices and pay the price of disobedience. But they also learn that God is merciful and quick to forgive, heal, and change their circumstances.

Here's what you'll find inside:

An Election Too Close to Call -- School politics really heats up when Steve, a basketball star, goes head-to-head with the Chess Club star Ken. Steve's life goes into a downhill spiral until he learns winning is not about power; it's about serving.

Grace for Grace -- Grace is a fearful young thing. She's afraid of dogs and people and fear has taken over her life. Her parents don't really know how to help her, so they turn to God and he answers their prayers. A visiting pastor teaches about fear and Grace surrenders her life to God, who gives her a new freedom to be herself.

Barry Gets It Right -- This is the story about a boy named Barry who appears to be lazy, but who actually is very allergic. In his desire to be a normal kid, he decides to seek God -- and God changes his circumstances.

Pssst! There are NO Secrets -- This is the story about a young girl who makes up a fake boyfriend to get another boy to like her. When word gets out that her "boyfriend" is made up, Carrie is mortified and turns to God for help. God hears her prayer and enables her to save face before her friends.

Phil Faces "Hitler" in the Classroom -- Phil's distaste for his math teacher results in disastrous consequences, but when he finds himself suspended and headed for summer school he repents to God. God is faithful to help Phil change his attitude and make peace with his teacher.

Evie's Miraculous Transformation -- Evie hogs the bathroom one too many times, angering her dad and getting her grounded for one whole month. Evie feels like she is in prison as her friends find other things to do -- without her. She wakes up and goes to God, who has just the right solution.

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Just Like Jonah Wail Tales is available as an ebook from Smashwords.com, where it can be purchased in a number of different formats for your ebook reader or computer.

You find the book as HTML, JavaScript, Kindle, Epub, PDF, RTF, LRF, Palm Doc, and Plain Text.

You'll find the book in epub and mobi formats at New Christian Books Online Magazine.

Youths 10 to 14 can write their own tale and enter it into the 2012 New Christian Books Summer Writing Contest. It is free to participate and there are cash prizes -- for first place, it's 100 cash, a $50 Walmart gift card and free books.

Avid readers 9 to 17 are welcome to participate as junior judges and help decide the winners!

Kids must enter their own work, but they can have help understanding the lesson of Jonah. There's a free Bible lesson plan, The Lesson of Jonah: There is a Price to Pay when you Disobey, which includes a free sample wail tale, discussion questions and related Scripture cites. It's available from Smashwords.com

Download an invitation to enter.

Cheryl Rogers grew up going to church, but all that religion didn't help her know God. It took a devastating illness for God to get her attention. So Cheryl learned the hard way that it's important to seek God, spend time in his Word, and DO what it says.

"It is the desire of my heart to help others sidestep the pain that comes from not knowing God," Cheryl says, "so I am reaching out in any way I can to share this message with others."

Just Like Jonah Wail Tales is a collection of stories aimed at preteen and teens.

Cheryl also has written Fast Track to Victory, A Christian Guidebook, a devotions book for new and young believers, and Making Choices: Like is Like Acorns, a children's Bible study aimed at children 5 to 10 years old that teaches things are not always what they appear to be. Her book What You Should KNOW About Self Publishing shares money-saving tips for would-be authors. Her latest book is I Can See Christian Storybook Treasury, a unique book helping to dispel doubts about God as a child grows.

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"I know what it feels like to go to church and find it boring," says Cheryl, who came to know God through a devastating illness. "I didn't really know he was real until I surrendered my life to him."

The ebook is targeted at those who go to church but find in meaningless, those who pray but are not sure their prayers are heard, those who don't attend church because they find it pointless, and those who don't believe in God or question if he is real.

This ebook is free for a limited time at New Christian Books Online Store. Check it out today.

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