The Old House up on the Hill

by Elizabeth Milavec, Joshua Allen (Illustrator)

Overview

This book tells us about 3 characters and their struggles in getting a house to live in until they decide to work together, as a team. They come up with a plan where each one of them has a specific job that can only be done by that team member, but will the plan work? After all, experience has shown that individually they are no match, for getting The Old House Up On The Hill. Is team work any better? Is it best if we each use our individual tallents to accomplish our goal?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481770460
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	09/18/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
File size:	11 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

I grew up in a family of 7 children. I have worked with children most of my adult life and some of my teenage life as a baby sitter. I have 3 children of my own which includes one girl,from my first marriage, who is my best friend, and one set of twin boys, who I wish I had a dollar for everytime I said "Boys take it outside before you break something" and I have 2 lovely daughters who I am so glad came with my second marriage. I also have 7 fantastic, grandchildren and an 8th one, who was 2 years old when we met her. I do remember working 40 hours a week in a center, going to college at night, and having 3 young children in school, a working husband, and a dog just so I could have a career field in Early Childhood. My first in field position was a secretary for a center, then I became a Senior Staff Teacher in the same center. I then started my own in home center and was chief, cook, and bottle washer. I sold my center, after seven years, and for 17 years was a Director of a Faith Based Center of 100 children with a great staff of 10. With all of that experience rolling around in my head I have many real life adventures to tell you about. I am now retired one full year and I found out that I enjoy writing books. Surprise. I do believe this is a gift from God because I don't remember sitting down and sweating over my first or second book as I wrote them.

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THE OLD HOUSE UP ON THE HILL

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By Elizabeth Milavec

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2013 Elizabeth Milavec
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4817-7045-3

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CHAPTER 1

Once upon a time there was an orange pumpkin, a black cat, a white ghost.

The cat lived all by herself in an old house up on a hill. The pumpkin now lives in his pumpkin patch at the bottom of the hill, and the ghost, well, that was the problem. She ... didn't ... live ... anywhere.

And oh yes, a mean old witch.

The ghost tried to live in the bowling alley but she was mistaken for a bowling pin. She tried to live in the fire station but the fire alarm kept waking her up. Each time she picked a place to live, something would happen and she would have to move out. Like the time she moved into the Laundromat and people kept washing her sheet and tossing her into the dryer. So here she was, wandering around day and night, with no place to live.

Then one day she wandered into the pumpkin patch and heard crying coming from an orange pumpkin. She floated over and asked the pumpkin, "Why are you crying"? The pumpkin said, "Just last year I was a happy Jack-O-Lantern until the mean old witch swept me off the porch of the house upon the hill and I rolled down the hill to this pumpkin patch. I cannot get back up the hill by myself".

So the orange pumpkin and the white ghost went for a walk along a path talked about how they were going to get the pumpkin back up the hill to the old house without the mean old witch seeing them. They also talked about trying to find a home for the ghost.

As they walked they heard a soft meowing in a tree. They looked up to see a black kitten crying.

The orange pumpkin and the white ghost asked, "Why are you crying kitten"? The black kitten said, "I am sad because I live all by myself in that big house on the hill and I am afraid of the mean old witch who keeps trying to scare me away from my house".

The orange pumpkin said, "That must be the same mean old witch who swept me off of the porch and down the hill to the pumpkin patch a year ago". So the orange pumpkin, the black cat, and the white ghost went for a walk along the path trying to solve their problems.

The ghost said, "If I had a house I would let both of you live with me". The orange pumpkin said, "If I could get back up the hill I would let both of you live with me". The black cat said, "If I wasn't so scared of the mean old witch I would let both of you live with me". Then they all said at the same time, "But how can we get the mean old witch to leave the house up on the hill"?

Without realizing it the three new friends had been following the long path that lead them half way up to the house. Just then the mean old witch came swooping down on them with her broom and cackled her ugly laugh. "EEEEEEE HE HE HEEEEE!"
(Continues...)

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