I found this fair-condition softcover at a local Salvation Army thrift store, and couldn't resist picking it up for another release copy. [I first read the book thanks to a BookCrossing copy, back in 2002!]

The book wasn't quite what I expected - although I don't know exactly what I *did* expect - but I loved it! Sweet, funny, crude, touching - wildly slapstick in places and poignant in others, with a more sympathetic view of Jesus than I've seen in many a year (and from many a church)... I enjoyed it so much [including laughing out loud and scaring the cats - I learned early not to read this while drinking anything lest I spew mouthfuls of coffee or beer all over the landscape] that I've purchased a hard-cover copy for my permanent collection (plus a couple more hardcovers as presents, plus several more release copies over the years!).

"He was a pretty normal kid, for the most part. There was the trick he did
with the lizards, and once we found a dead meadowlark and he brought it back
to life, and there was the time, when we were eight, when he healed his
brother Judah's fractured skull after a game of 'stone the adulteress' got
out of hand. (Judah could never get the hang of being an adulteress. He'd
stand there stiff as Lot's wife. You can't do that. An adulteress has to be
wily and nimble-footed.) The miracles Joshua performed were small and quiet,
as miracles tend to be, once you get used to them."

[There's a TV Tropes page for this book as well, very entertaining - but beware of spoilers if you haven't read the book yet!]

I left this book in the Little Free Library at around 3; hope the finder enjoys it!

*** Released as part of the 2016 E-less release challenge. ***