Swish
A Special Gift From Heaven
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This book is a modern day Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) adventure book that takes place in the inner city. It has everything a Mark Twain book provides, adventure, excitement, surprises, danger, and passion. This book should be especially of interest to those confronting the problem of bullying between preadolescent and adolescent populations and to teachers and counselors who are dealing with teenage populations.
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About the Book
Swish is the story of two high school jocks in an inner city high school. One of them a practical joker and the other is low key. Their lives take a serious change when the more serious of the two gets in trouble for an act his friend commits. This leads to the two of them taking the school nerd under their wings and in doing so they find out the school nerd possesses many talents they would have never had. This is a book of adventure, and mischief, and drama, and compassion. Every preteen and teen should read this book and everyone who teaches, and counsels preteens could use this book as their format.
About the Author
London lives in Stockton, Ca. and spent 12 years working as an educator for Oakland Unified School District and 32 years as a Juvenile Institutional Officer III (retired) with Alameda Co. Probation and Camp Wilmont Sweeney in San Leandro, Ca. He was an Army Medic ( USAR US Army Reserve Unit 352 Evac Hosp) from 1980-1986). He worked as a Substitute Teacher for Oakland Public Schools; (Oakland Unified School District Stonehurst Elementary) Oakland, Ca. from September 1975 to June 1987. Served six years as a deacon at Allen Temple Baptist Church where he founded two young men’s mentoring programs. BROP (Boys Rights of Passage) and YMEN (Young Men Excelling Now). Currently in Allen Temple Institute Ministers in training program. “To God be the Glory”