Like Jake and Me Summary

Like Jake and Me is a picture book for beginning readers written by Mavis Jukes, a board certified lawyer who abandoned her law career to write.

Alex watches his stepfather, Jake, split wood on the edge of the cypress grove near their home. Alex is amazed with the power in Jake's arms and thinks he will never be able to do that. Virginia, Alex's mother, calls him to her. She says she needs Alex's help in picking up some change she dropped in the grass. Virginia is largely pregnant with twins and cannot bend over easily. When Alex has done that, Virginia takes him to the pear tree and asks if he thinks the bottle she placed over two pear blossoms earlier in the year are ready to be picked. Inside the jar now grows two perfect...