About This Book
She thought she knew what summer would bring. She was wrong.
The rooster crows before dawn, same as always. Grandma’s kitchen smells like biscuits and cicadas hum in the trees, same as always. But partway through the season, the sky turns a color Bean has never seen before, and nothing about that afternoon feels like always again. This is Bean’s second summer on her grandparents’ farm, and by the time the storm passes, she understands something about courage she didn’t know before.
In this second book of the Bean Basket Stories series, author Stacy Huddleston brings Bean back to the farm a whole year older and sure of herself, right up until the weather has other plans. Each chapter is a small adventure, warm and funny and true, building toward a storm that tests everything Bean thought she knew about being brave.
This isn’t a book about being scared for the sake of being scared. It’s about a grandparents’ porch, a root cellar full of jars, and the people who hold your hand in the dark. Bean is every child who has ever weathered something frightening and come out the other side a little braver than before.
Along the way, you’ll join Bean as she:
- Outsmarts the meanest rooster on the farm, again
- Bottle-feeds an orphaned baby goat and gives him his name
- Earns the trust of a wary barn cat, one quiet visit at a time
- Watches the sky turn a color she’s never seen before
- Shelters through the night in the family’s root cellar
- Discovers hailstones with rings like a tree, and frogs scattered clear across the yard
- Helps rebuild what the storm knocked down, bigger and better than before
Each chapter pairs real farm adventure with the warmth of a family that holds tight when things get scary, and closes on the quiet feeling of a day survived together. Whether it’s read aloud at bedtime or read alone by a proud new reader, Bean’s second summer is one that shows growing up sometimes means growing braver.
Continue Bean’s story with Book Two of the Bean Basket Stories series today.
For young readers who love farm life, family stories, and just enough thunder to make the sunshine feel earned.
About the Author
Stacy Huddleston is a Christian author and licensed clinical social worker whose writing flows from a deep, personal relationship with God. Drawing on years of walking alongside women through their hardest seasons, she writes with warmth, honesty, and a counselor’s understanding of the human heart. Her devotionals invite readers to slow down, return to Scripture, and rediscover how fully they are known and loved by the Father. She lives to remind women that they are never as alone as they feel.
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