The Samaritan Bueno

by Jack Weyland

Book Overview

Dan and his friends are asked to deliver a food box to a needy family. By mistake they deliver it to the wrong house and meet Maria, an undocumented mom and her two kids. Over the next few weeks, as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159936042X
• ISBN13: 9781599360423
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Granite Publishing & Distribution
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a Great Heart-warming sensitive Jack Weyland Classic!!!

The Samaritan Bueno by Jack Weyland It's been awhile since I've read a Jack Weyland novel and this is one that really packs a wallop in the heart. Dan Winchester and his two best friends Chad and Jonathan are fullfilling their Ward Youth Service Project by putting together Christmas boxes for needy families in their ward. Well, this one day, during their Senior year, they deliver a box to the wrong address. Dan, as their leader, feels badly about telling Maria Sanchez, a young illegal mother from Mexico with her two young children. Her husband Eduardo is still working to get back with his family, but in the meantime Dan and his friends help out by giving Maria the needed money for rent and an illegal Social Security card to allow her to work. Dan goes to the bank to withdraw money from out of his mission fund, put there by his long-deceased Grandfather. Dan and his friends get help from a sister missionary to teach the discussions to Maria. Everything that could go wrong for Dan, does go wrong and he winds up in trouble with immigrant officials. When his parents find out what he's done, he loses more than he bargains for, even his new found girlfriend, DeAnna, who helps support him, is somewhat frustrated at his not being able to join her in college. I learned some insights on how we can treat this illegal alien situation. I feel there are some illegals here that want to use our government, yet there are some that want to live here, work hard, learn our English language and work to become an American Citizen. We need to do as Dan did and that is to help someone in need just like the Good Samaritan did and to not be worried if we are treated badly for doing a good deed. The Samaritan Bueno is a quick read, but one that will stay with you for along time. Thank you, Jack, for a well-done and rewarding read. Forever Friends Rating 5 Stars by Teri Until Next Time, See You Around The Book Nook. Granite Publishing & Distribution Pujblished: June 2009 ISBN: 978-1-59936-042-3

My favorite Jack Weyland book ever!

We own every book Jack Weyland has ever written. I've loved having our kids be able to read his books because they're always filled with goodness, but are so funny and interesting that our teens and young adults think they're great. Since we've enjoyed so many wonderful books of his over the years, I was extremely surprised that THIS Jack Weyland book has turned out to be my favorite one of all. The Samaritan Bueno starts out as typical Jack Weyland fare--witty dialog, engaging characters, an interesting plot line with a thread of 'values' running through it. But if he ever wrote a book that keeps you off balance, wondering what will happen next and how the story will end, this is it. There were some parts when I wasn't sure where this whole thing was headed, and even a couple of places where I felt a little uncomfortable with how it looked like things were going. This is a book that will make you think, and may possibly even make you reconsider your views on a couple of issues. As good as it was as it went along, I was unprepared for the profound impact that the last forty pages or so had on me. I was left in tears, not due to heart-wrenching, sad events, but because the simple events described there were SO right, SO moving, and SO true-- choosing to do the right thing even if it's humiliating in some respects, because you know in your soul it's what you should do; caring about others enough to actually BE the person who makes the difference in things that come up day to day; like regardless of how things look at the moment, that to just keep doing what your heart says is right and true is the best thing you can do; like how status and the apparent trappings of "success" don't matter as much as being deeply good and caring. I love this book, and have such admiration and respect for Jack Weyland. Someone can only write a book like this by drawing from what's within their own soul and heart. What a blessing it is that an individual with a heart like this possesses the gift to be able to share it with the rest of us though what he writes. Thank you, Jack. Victoria [...]