Carpenters and Catapults: A Girls Can Do Anything Book

By Carmen Petro and Sarah Gledhill

Tag along with Caitlyn as she enjoys some fun with her brothers during summer break. She has an important summer project to do for school, but it’s okay because she has plenty of time to do it. At least, she thinks she does. The next thing she knows, she finds herself in the middle of a construction site. There she meets Jo, the constructi

• Language: English
• Publisher: Atmosphere Press
• Release date: Apr 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781645166610

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Copyright © 2019 by Carmen Petro

Published by Atmosphere Press

Cover design by Sarah Gledhill and Nick Courtright

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To YHWH, through whom all things are possible.

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Jo the Carpenter

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To my daughter, Caitlyn – Without you, these stories wouldn’t exist because I’d have had nothing to write about.  Even though you’re older now, you’re still Daddy’s little girl.

Bang, bang, bang, bang! ZOOP, zoop, ZOOP, zoop,

ZOOP, zoop! The sound poured in through my open window.

Bang, bang, bang, bang! ZOOP, zoop, ZOOP, zoop, ZOOP, zoop! It seemed like it was even louder this time. What in the world is going on out there? I wondered.

All of the sudden the long screaming screeeeeeeeeeeeech of an electric saw filled my room.

Oh, this is crazy! I said out loud. I got out of my bed and looked out. Next door at Mr. and Mrs. Planton’s house I saw workmen with bright yellow hardhats climbing on ladders and crawling on the roof. There were two vans in the driveway with signs that said Baptiste Construction. Mr. and Mrs. Planton were having an addition built onto their house to make room for a nursery since they were about to have a baby. The workmen had been there for