Ah, those high school years! The best years of your life, we're told. And maybe that is true for those fortunate souls who are a part of the popular crowd. But there are always those less fortunate souls, the little people--physically, socially and economically. They become the tar... gets of the ones who think they are elite and entitled. They are often made to endure pain and humiliation--bullying that goes on and on and on.
Until they have had enough...
To most of the students at Mount Haven High, it was a "normal" school year. But there were a few for whom it became a turning point in their lives. Some avenged themselves of wrongs done to them. Some learned to respect those who are smaller and less fortunate. Some learned that choices made sometimes lead to somewhere other than happiness. By the end of the school year, the most lasting lessons learned came from outside the classroom.
And then there was the one who didn't live long enough to see the end of the school year at all. read more
BIOGRAPHY Charles Brown decided to major in English and minor in history in college because he planned to be a writer and thought both would help him. He figured the teaching profession would allow him time to write, but he soon learned that teaching didn't leave much time for writing--not when he soon had a wife and three chi... ldren to support. So the writing was put on the back burner until he retired.
Now the nest is empty and there's time to write. His wife, Carolyn Brown, is a romance author so she understands what it means to have deadlines and characters running around in an author's head.
Brown graduated from high school in Mt. Union, Pennsylvania, from college at Southeastern State University in Durant, Oklahoma and taught high school English in three states, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, before he retired in 2008. He served three years in the Army, spending most of that time in Germany. He and his wife, Carolyn, have three children and enough grandchildren to keep them young.read more