Boy, Let Me Show You

Five kids. One working week. And a grandfather with four words that change everything.

When Briggs, Jase, Emma, Kohen, and Bryer come to spend a week at 5 Daughters Ranch, they come for three reasons. They come to earn a little money. They come for time with Nana and Papa. And underneath both, whether they say it out loud or not, they come because they know that one day this land will be theirs.

But a working ranch does not hand its lessons out easy. Papa works all week and comes home in the evenings to inspect what got done, and if a job is not right, it gets done again. Fences must run straight as a string across two football fields of pasture. Mowing and hay happen on the weekends, in heat about as fierce as God ever made, with Papa right there beside them the whole time. And when young Jase reaches for a job the hard way, sure he can muscle through it on his own, Papa stops him with the four words that give this book its name. Boy, let me show you.

Readers ages 8 to 11 will sweat through the hayfield and grin around the supper table where Bryer says grace over every meal. They will learn that there is a right way to do hard things, that good work is its own reward, and that the people who love us most are the ones willing to make us do it over until we get it right.

Based on a true story, Boy, Let Me Show You is about family, faith, and the quiet way a legacy really gets handed down. Not all at once, and not on paper, but one working week and one shared supper at a time, from a grandfather's steady hands to the next generation ready to hold it.

The book includes a Guide for Teachers and Families, with discussion questions, vocabulary, and a hands-on activity for the classroom, homeschool, or bedtime reading.

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