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Shan Shelton is going to the store for his mother. If he had a dime, he could buy his favorite treat, a chocolate bar and a lemon soda pop. Shan knows that Mr. Conley, the storekeeper, pays a penny each for good used paper sacks returned to the store.<\/p>\n
There are ten sacks at home, but Shan\u2019s mother tells him to take only nine to Mr. Conley, because the tenth sack has \u00a0a hole in it. Shan wants a chocolate bar and lemon soda pop so much, he disobeys his mother and takes the tenth sack. \u2026 And, sure enough, Mr. Conley overlooks it.<\/p>\n
But as soon as Shan begins to eat his chocolate bar and drink his lemon soda pop, he discovers something is wrong \u2013 inside him, and all around him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jesse Stuart\u2019s A Penny\u2019s Worth of Character<\/em> is a lesson in honesty that the reader, young or old, will not easily forget. This delightful story is full of details from Stuart\u2019s native eastern Kentucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[661,683],"product_tag":[772,819,754],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":["11993","15763"],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n