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Way of the Warrior Kid #5
Way of the Warrior Kid 5: Letters From Uncle Jake
ON THE PATH AND GIVING BACK!
It's the Holidays and Marc and his friends are ready to celebrate! But more importantly, they’ve decided to give back to those in need. While searching through his house for things he can donate to the local Holiday donation drive, Marc comes across his treasured collection of letters from his Navy SEAL Uncle Jake.
Each letter contains a story from Uncle Jake’s childhood that teaches a valuable lesson, shows how to overcome life’s challenges, face one’s fears—or all of the above!
Marc realizes these letters can do more than just help him—they could help kids everywhere! Not only does he donate copies of them to the donation drive, he’s sharing them with YOU to help you become smarter, stronger, healthier and better! To stay on The Path and be the best Warrior Kid you can be!
It's the Holidays and Marc and his friends are ready to celebrate! But more importantly, they’ve decided to give back to those in need. While searching through his house for things he can donate to the local Holiday donation drive, Marc comes across his treasured collection of letters from his Navy SEAL Uncle Jake.
Each letter contains a story from Uncle Jake’s childhood that teaches a valuable lesson, shows how to overcome life’s challenges, face one’s fears—or all of the above!
Marc realizes these letters can do more than just help him—they could help kids everywhere! Not only does he donate copies of them to the donation drive, he’s sharing them with YOU to help you become smarter, stronger, healthier and better! To stay on The Path and be the best Warrior Kid you can be!
218 pages, Paperback
Published December 8, 2022
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December 21, 2024
Great book for teaching life lessons, with each chapter focusing on a different, but very common, challenge to overcome. I can’t wait to share some me of these stories with my fifth grade students.
June 13, 2024
This was a good book for teaching lessons and to always do right. Chapter 25 ( I think it was 25) really hit me hard. I had to sit and just look at the picture for 5 minutes because it was so hard. I liked this book and the main idea: don’t be bad, be the best you can. Don’t let yourself go🥲
December 21, 2022
Book 5 of the Warrior Kid world is Marc, the boy growing in to a young man through the series, showing the reader further life lessons by way of letters, yes, actual letters one writes and mails, from his uncle Jake. These letters are the life experiences of Uncle Jake as he grew up much like at the same timeframe as Marc.
Showing generational experiences, another great way for kids to generate their own foundation of principles by seeing how the adults in their world generated their own is sorely lacking in much of modern society; the author also points out prominently, another issue which kids need to see, which is the path of bad behavior. Drugs, drinking, smoking, and getting in to legal trouble are also shown as not only a contrast to being on a good path in life, but just how much it cost one to engage in, and the end of a bad path as well.
Props to illustrator Bozak for taking on not only giving us a growing Marc to depict, but in book 5, had to show Uncle Jake as a young man...quite a bit of work for the artist.
For those who have been here for Willink's Warrior Kids books, this is the first one which comes as a paperback, so just be aware of that.
Showing generational experiences, another great way for kids to generate their own foundation of principles by seeing how the adults in their world generated their own is sorely lacking in much of modern society; the author also points out prominently, another issue which kids need to see, which is the path of bad behavior. Drugs, drinking, smoking, and getting in to legal trouble are also shown as not only a contrast to being on a good path in life, but just how much it cost one to engage in, and the end of a bad path as well.
Props to illustrator Bozak for taking on not only giving us a growing Marc to depict, but in book 5, had to show Uncle Jake as a young man...quite a bit of work for the artist.
For those who have been here for Willink's Warrior Kids books, this is the first one which comes as a paperback, so just be aware of that.
January 5, 2024
Another awesome one! So many good lessons for kids and adults!
January 15, 2024
I just couldn't put this book down! 😊
October 3, 2024
I recommend all the Warrior Kid books to families with kids of all ages. The values gleaned from these pages are helping my kids understand how to act and what is expected of them to be leaders.
June 5, 2025
This book was great. I think that it was a good idea to focus on uncle jake in this book. I think that it is cool to teach life lessons in fun little stories. This book was great and fun to read.
November 27, 2025
I *love* the format of this book. It's a bunch of letters from Uncle Jake to Marc. I personally have written a series of similar letters to my nephews every year, and this book makes me want to write more (it also illustrated a format for writing the letters that is cleaner than I've been using).
The surrounding plot is that Marc wants to turn the letters into a book to share with as many kids as possible to help them out.
Each letter underscores one of the lessons of the previous books using stories from Uncle Jake's past. There are 23 letters in all, each around 5 or so pages.
What's great about the format is the stories are incredibly relatable. I lived very similar scenarios as a kid. So even though they are in the "here's the lesson from this" format, they didn't feel contrived.
There's a story where Little Uncle Jake cheated to win at bashball. One in which he gets his parents to stop nagging them by figuring out if he does his chores in advance of the nagging they'll leave him alone (and a sublesson in this one: "When you do what you HAVE to do but becuase you WANT to do it--it creates freedom", so by taking control of doing the chores on his own initiative and time, he's far better off). One about cleaning a little at a time vs. big cleans. One about jealousy. One about not listening to the criticism of others. And so on.
The Christmas chapter brought a tear to my eye.
Anyway, great stories. I'm going to be sharing this book (and probably the full collection) with my nephews at some point.
The surrounding plot is that Marc wants to turn the letters into a book to share with as many kids as possible to help them out.
Each letter underscores one of the lessons of the previous books using stories from Uncle Jake's past. There are 23 letters in all, each around 5 or so pages.
What's great about the format is the stories are incredibly relatable. I lived very similar scenarios as a kid. So even though they are in the "here's the lesson from this" format, they didn't feel contrived.
There's a story where Little Uncle Jake cheated to win at bashball. One in which he gets his parents to stop nagging them by figuring out if he does his chores in advance of the nagging they'll leave him alone (and a sublesson in this one: "When you do what you HAVE to do but becuase you WANT to do it--it creates freedom", so by taking control of doing the chores on his own initiative and time, he's far better off). One about cleaning a little at a time vs. big cleans. One about jealousy. One about not listening to the criticism of others. And so on.
The Christmas chapter brought a tear to my eye.
Anyway, great stories. I'm going to be sharing this book (and probably the full collection) with my nephews at some point.
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