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Author: George Durrant
Jake Denning's first love is basketball. That's Just as well, because the whole town expects him to follow in the footsteps of his star-athlete older brother. But Jake is also in love with Nelda Jean, and no one expected that, least of all Nelda Jean. While Jake's good with the ball, when he's near the girl his heart thumps like a flat tire on a freeway and he can't even breathe properly, much less speak coherently. However, he's sure his dedicated practice will pay off both ways-he'll make the high school team, and that will help him to win Nelda Jean.
When he and the coach see things differently, it's disaster-the end of the world. He is plagued by all the dragons that apparent failure introduces. Enter now Clem Farber, Jake's new neighbor. Clem gives all the signs of a positive attitude and a success image that matches his mountainous size. He has a solution to Jake's problem. Or has he? And is his pretty daughter, Lela Mae, going to turn out to be part of the solution or merely an irritation of the problem?
This story of a high school senior and his buddies is more than that. It's each of us struggling with apparent failure, self-doubt, discouragement, and those seemingly inevitable feelings of. inadequacy. It's a book for everyone, regardless of age, who has felt the ecstasy and the anxiety of first love, the heartbreak of rejection. And the authors draw you into the story in such a way that in the solution to Jake's problem you will feel it all along with him.
In short, it's a fine story.
Funny, too.
