Echoes of Fairborn High - Couverture souple

Lessard, R. Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 145208601X ISBN 13 : 9781452086019

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2010

Synopsis

The high school on the north side of Birchdale has been on an emotional roller coaster experience as fall was transitioning into winter. Just as the students were basking in the glory of their first state championship in football, they had to bear the devastating death of one of their most popular classmates. The passage of months has also brought about significant changes in the individual family and social lives of the young people, especially in the boy-girl relationships. Ted and Natalie, the shy couple whose security was their unswerving devotion to each other, is experiencing new strains as the beauty of Natalie's emerging physical maturity has catapulted her into the limelight of the most desired girls in the school. Jeff has been getting along quite comfortably with Gina, the second girlfriend of his teen years, but just when he thought that his first girlfriend, Jill, had faded out of his life, he unexpectedly encounters her again. His certain world is profoundly shaken as he realizes that the "old feelings" haven't really gone away for this girl who he once loved so crazily that he was certain he couldn't never love anyone else. Yet returning to her presents as impossible since she has rejected him for three other guys and is pregnant by the last one, his younger brother! As conflict rages within his family over what to do about Jill, Jeff tries to focus on his studies and after-school job, only to get kidnapped by the school hoodlums and dragged into what is for him, the scariest place on earth, the now closed old Century Inn. If he gets out of there alive, he may still have to prove that he was not the perpetrator in the breaking and entering of the building. A few secrets of the ancient hotel have been revealed, but the teenage boys who worked there, and the young thugs that break into it, find yet more puzzling mysteries to ponder, not the least of which is whether the building is haunted.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

High school. An experience many look back on as a wonderful carefree time when everything seemed to have a magic about it. Life was more fun. Love was more intense. Good times were to be found in many kinds of available experiences. Football games. The proms. The parties. The old teenage hangout. Beach parties. But not everyone experienced it as a joyful time. In those turbulent teen years, problems seemed more perplexing than at any previous time in life. Jealousies and rivalries were also more intense. Competition was fierce. There were mean girls and bully boys and the constant barrage of put-downs. So it was with the students of Fairborn High School in the little Midwestern city of Birchdale in the late 1950's. Was life really simpler back then? Was it really a time of innocence? It seemed that each of these young people had his or her own situation of struggle, and at a time when answers seemed so very elusive. Consider Jeff, who wanted more than anything to play football, but was required by his parents to give it up for his job at a big ancient hotel, where the hours were long, the work rules odious, and the place might even have been haunted. Then there was Ted, a relatively small boy with little playing experience, who also wanted a place on the football team, not only because he loved the game, but saw it as a way to increase his popularity with the girls. For Kurt, the small but elusive sophomore quarterback, making the team was much easier than the challenge laid on his shoulders to somehow deliver on alumni expectations that his Golden Knights would win their first league championship in many years. Standing in their way was their cross-town rival, Goodrow High School, who was the defending state champion and boasting a undefeated streak extending over three seasons. For Wallace, the class geek-dweeb, surviving the constant assault of teasing and threats of physical violence was enough to deal with

Biographie de l'auteur

Joseph Lessard is now a retired occupational therapist and former microbiologist and nuclear medicine technologist, with experience as a waiter, dishwasher, telephone switchboard operator, hotel bell hop, ice cream delivery boy, grocery store stock boy, sales person, and medical research technician. He was a student at Alma College, Central Michigan University, Western Michigan University, The Detroit College of Business, and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He has bachelor's degrees in biology and occupational therapy, with graduate work in microbiology and animal physiology. He has approximately ten years of higher education, spread through a variety of subjects, including chemistry, English, philosophy, psychology, humanities, math and computer science. This hodge-podge of experience was a valuable resource for the writing of this book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 145208601X
• ISBN 13: 9781452086019
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 540
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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