Synopsis
"Fast-paced and easy to read. . . an engaging and reassuring story about friendship, love and loss, and truly living in the present moment."
—Bill Sherwonit, author of To the Top of Denali and Living with Wildness: An Alaskan Odyssey
A Long Way Down
A lifelong climber, seventeen-year-old Jordan spends as much time as he can scaling the crags outside his Washington hometown. His friend A.J., a fellow climber and popular super-jock, keeps the gorilla football players off Jordan's back, and his girlfriend Juana likes the crags as much as he does. All in all, Jordan's got a crimp hold on happiness.
But even the tightest grip is useless if a piece of the rock breaks away. For the climber, there are only two absolutes in life: gravity and death. Unfortunately, Jordan can't protect his friends from either.
Praise for John Foley
"Convincing and exciting-Hoops of Steel
is terrific and deserves a wide audience."
-Carl Deuker, author of Night Hoops
"[Running With the Wind is] a powerful and honest approach to coping with life's difficulties."
-School Library Journal
About John Foley
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John Foley is a high school teacher in Washington State. He previously worked as a newspaper reporter in the Chicago suburbs and Alaska, covering sports, cops, features and any other beat that didn't require him to attend sanitary sewer meetings. Following a career change to teaching, he worked in Alaskan villages for several years, which led to his memoir Tundra Teacher . Hoops of Steel is based in part on his experiences as a basketball player. Foley was second string on the junior varsity at a Division III school, but prefers to simply say that he "played college ball.
Published April 8, 2009
by Flux.
229 pages
Genres:
Sports & Outdoors, Young Adult, Literature & Fiction, Children's Books.
Fiction
