Me & Jay - Adams, W. Royce
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One hot summer day, fourteen-year-olds Geri Thomas and Jay Thornton try to find a place to cool off, so they seek Blue Pool, a dangerous, off-limits area. The two discover adventures they never bargained for as they foolishly hop a slow freight train to take them up the river road, then accidently start a grass fire. Soon they find themselves being chased through a mammoth cave by two desperate men willing to do almost anything to keep the teens from telling what they've discovered. Geri and Jay's adventures bring them one step closer to maturity and the acceptance of responsibility. "This…mehr

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One hot summer day, fourteen-year-olds Geri Thomas and Jay Thornton try to find a place to cool off, so they seek Blue Pool, a dangerous, off-limits area. The two discover adventures they never bargained for as they foolishly hop a slow freight train to take them up the river road, then accidently start a grass fire. Soon they find themselves being chased through a mammoth cave by two desperate men willing to do almost anything to keep the teens from telling what they've discovered. Geri and Jay's adventures bring them one step closer to maturity and the acceptance of responsibility. "This action-packed story... is a happy-ending page-turner for grades 5 to 8 with a solid message that bad decisions have dire consequences." -Today's Librarian
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W. Royce Adams has published over a dozen college textbooks, academic journal articles, fantasy middle-grade chapter books, three juvenile novels, a short story collection, Against the Current, and a novel A Time Goes By. He won the Haunted Waters Literary Magazine's 2016 Grand Prize Short Story Contest, Honorable Mentions from Glimmer Train, and for a notable essay of 2016 by Best American Essays, 2017. His works have appeared in The Rockford Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Catamaran, In the Depths, Coe Review, Chaffey Review, Adelaide, bosque, Evening Street Press and others. He is Past-president of the California Reading and Learning Association and a member of The Authors Guild. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.