Chicken Crossing

By Kristen Joy Wilks

Description:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

The machinations of poultry are difficult to decipher. Add an infuriating youth pastor, a terrifying crash at highway speeds, and trap-building kids too bored for their own good and you have something a little more serious than a knock-knock joke.

After the local librarian foolishly agrees to haul a trailer full of chickens over the pass, an unexpected crash sends fifteen beloved hens scattering into the wilderness. Shelby and the exasperating Jack must locate, capture, and return the chickens to his nephew before the talent show at the boy’s new school on Monday. The problem: chickens are incredibly difficult to catch. Especially when dispersed throughout the wild. When they take refuge in a coop occupied by twenty identical hens and guarded by multiple NO TRESPASSING signs and a pair of bored mountain children who have been watching way too much TV, tensions rise and feathers fly. Can Shelby thwart an alarming collection of unlikely traps and find the chickens before they are devoured? Imagination and ingenuity go so very wrong in this epic clash of inventive child verses accidental chicken thief.

Book Takeaway:

Being prepared and organized is wonderful, but at the end of the day, our help comes from the LORD!

Why the author wrote this book:

Our family has enjoyed many years with our sons' pet chickens and I wanted a story where I could use some of our fun chicken stories. Plus, I really wanted to use the tale of digging that homemade snake pit as a girl and this seemed like the perfect tale for that!