ISBN: 0-88739-459-0
78pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Deerfoot's Mile
Douglas Worth
Life has gotten tougher for 13-year-old Evan Green. A growth spurt and muscular development has transformed his former best friend Jay into the eighth-grade jock-of-all-jocks, while Ev is still short and scrawny. To make matters worse, Jay has the affections of drop-dead gorgeous Debbie. The only one left of the "Fearsome Foursome" of younger days who still values Ev's company is freckled, bespectacled Dawn.
The only way Ev believes he can gain respect - and Debbie's heart - is to beat lightning-fast Jay in the big race next June. Training for the race takes Ev into the New England woods, where he meets an old basketball-loving Native American who calls himself Grandfather. The aged Indian's wisdom coincides with Ev's classroom assignments concerning peace among the world's nations. Ev discovers he has much to learn, including that winning can sometimes be losing, and that empathetic cooperation, rather than ego-driven competition, is the way to truly succeed in a more important human race - the human one!
Review: "Let the new millenium at long last bring a sense of humanity to human beings. Douglas Worth's writings contribute to this new sensibility."
-Bernard Lown, M.D., Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
"Deerfoot's Mile chronicles the challenges and goals adolescents, as well as adults, experience in day-to-day life. This is a story people of all ages can learn from and enjoy. Educators should use Derrfoot's Mile in the classroom to bring some wholesomeness and down-to-earth values back into the lives of our youth!"
-Elaine Roper, editor and publisher, Cherokee Country Road Chronicles
"Worth's work explores the choices confronting the human species."
-The Boston Globe
Bio: DOUGLAS WORTH is the author of six collections of poetry and two forthcoming illustrated children's books. He is widely published in anthologies and periodicals, such as The New York Times, The Nation, and The American Scholar. The recipient of a number of fellowships, grants and prizes for his writing, he lives in Massachusetts with his wife Patricia.
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