Going for the Gold: An Easter's Tale

By P. A. Shepherd

Going for the Gold is an all-season story, but it does have a seasonal focus on Easter folk customs involving coloring eggs. It can appeal to all levelschildren and adults alike. It also has a teaching-language component instructive for teachers of English whether students are youngsters learning the language or adults learning English as a second language.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514455319

P. A. Shepherd

Dr. M. P. A. Sheaffer (pseudonym: P. A. Shepherd) is a professor at Millersville University of Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvania System of Higher Education, teaching in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr. Sheaffer holds a teaching certificate for teaching English to nonnative speakers with experience in Italy and Austria, a BSEd in English, and graduate degrees in English literature and in art history. Dr. Sheaffer is also a published poet and a professional musician.

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ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-5144-5532-6

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 10/04/2016

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GOING FOR THE GOLD

by

P.A. Shepherd

Thomas Thaddeus Hasenspringer was very, very hungry. Think Spring! he told himself as he hopped up and down in his house to keep warm. Thinking Spring will make things seem better! Winter had hung on and on and on. His carrot supply had gone down, down, down; his cellar was empty, except a few cans of carrot juice.

Thomas Thaddeus Hasenspringer—or TT as everyone called him—could hardly sleep for dreaming about the big, fat carrots that he had stolen from Farmer Thornwhacker’s garden last year or the juicy spring lettuce he had eaten right down to the ground in Mrs. Throstleworth’s garden.