Benny and the Bank Robber (edit title/settings)

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• Benny Richardson: 10 years old, brown hair, brown eyes, tall for his age, interested in studying and learning. Likes the company of grownups, especially Christians, better than those his own age. Prefers city life to country life. After his father dies he becomes bitter because he has to leave the city and travel with his mother to a frontier farm. Likes to solve puzzles and mysteries. Very observant. Tends to speak his mind or act suddenly, sometimes without thinking about the consequences.
• Abigail Richardson: Benny's mother. Small, blond, blue-eyed, considered very beautiful, late twenties. Widowed when her husband is killed in a cart accident in Philadelphia. Left destitute, sold off most of their belongings, left with Benny for frontier Missouri and her brother's farm. Severely injured along the way and had to entrust Benny's care to a stranger they met while traveling, Jeremy Carlisle.
• Jeremy Carlisle: Handsome, well-spoken man in his thirties, brown hair, brown eyes. Bank teller in 1800's Pennsylvania.
• Uncle Tom: Benny's uncle, his mother's brother, farms with his wife Caroline in frontier Missouri. Older than his sister, very set in his ways, stubborn, wants to protect and shelter his sister.
• Jason Owens: two years older than Benny, red hair, small for his age, raised rough in Philadelphia, son of a brickmaker, moved with his family to Missouri by his father to escape bad influences. Recently saved, bitter about not being able to learn about God and grow in Christ. Has a mysterious Bible that shocks Benny. Becomes Benny's best friend in Missouri.
• Caleb Owens: Older boy who lives in the same Missouri town where Benny and his mother settle. Son of a drunk who abuses his family. He torments Benny and becomes a bitter enemy because of a trick Benny plays that cheats Caleb out of a satisfying "victory" over him.
• Daniel Connors or Doc Daniel: Sixty-something circuit riding preacher, very tall, dresses like a mountain man and serves a large area of the frontier as a circuit-riding preacher and missionary to Indians and whites. Very well-educated, mysteriously famous back east, has a number of children in successful positions (politicians, lawyers, etc.) but lives very simply, in a small cabin filled with books.

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• “"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."“I’m not sure I do. I know you’re a self-righteouslittle son of a so-and-so, who says God’s always with him,but can’t show a smile of gratitude or lend a hand withoutgrudging everything you do that helps me. Things justhaven’t turned out the way you seem to think God ought tomake them go. Doesn’t it occur to you that maybe theyaren’t going to? Maybe you’re the one who’s going to haveto change how you think.””

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• Christians: No specific denominations or organizations, church attendance and teaching theology at teh University of Pennsylvania. Belief in the Bible and God's care and the need to experience salvation by faith in Christ.

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• teaser on YouTube for this title.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxDuhlnQg_k