I don't know who was most excited that morning when the three of us hoisted packs on our backs and started off down the trail. Just before we disappeared from view of our yard, I turned for one more wave. You woulda thought we were marching off to war or something. I even saw Aunt Lou blow her nose on her white hankie. They all looked glad and sad at the same time happy we were doing something we really wanted to do, anxious that everything would go all right, and a bit sad we were growing up. On the brink of manhood, Josh was facing important questions about life, about love, about himself. (c) Amazon.com

A great book about youngsters on the verge of adulthood.

"What do you plan to do after graduation? Are you gonna be a minister or what? Or what, my mind echoed in frustration. What? I had been asked myself the same question over and over. And I still didn't have an answer. Graduation was only a month away, and it seemed that I was the only one in our small town school who didn't know what to do with life after the big day. It wasn't that I hadn't given it a thought. In fact, I thought about it most of the time. I prayed about it, too. But I still didn't have an answer, except to say honestly, "No I don't know yet." And I'd been saying that for a long, long time. Though life seems to be moving others ahead, Josh appears to have come to a dead standstill. What does the future hold? (c) Amazon.com

Everyone finds themselves at a crossroads at some time in their life. Often more than once. Most definitely at high school graduation. This story depicts the struggles one boy goes through. Great read!

In the dimness of the early morning I could see field after neighborhood field as I let my gaze wander around me. First there was ours I supposed I would always think of the farm as ours Grandpa's, Uncle Charlie's and mine, though in truth it really was just mine now. Guess that was one of the reasons I was whistling. Just yesterday Grandpa and Uncle Charlie had signed all the official papers to make the farm mine really and legally mine. Joshua Chadwick Jones they read, clear as could be. The full impact had yet to hit me. But I was excited. Really excited. I mean, what other fella my age had a farm his own, title clear and paid for? I sobered down a bit. It was a big responsibility. I mean ,I was the one who had to make the farm "bring forth" now. Had to support Grandpa and Uncle Charlie and myself -. And adding to the challenge is Josh's desire for a family of his own -. (c) Amazon.com

A great novel of passage into adulthood. Keep on reading! You won't be disappointed with Janette Oke!