Under the Lights & the Halloween Moon

Under the Lights & the Halloween Moon is the story of one year in the lives of Stan, Clark, and Jill, three junior high school best friends growing up in the small-town Southern Indiana of 1960-61. Beginning and ending with the final game of two separate youth league football seasons, the book follows the evolution of a team of misfits who lose every game that first year but go undefeated the next, thanks to the leadership of an unlikely rookie coach who had never played the game. Against the backdrop of a nurturing farm community, the heart of the book is what happens to the three kids between those two seasons, the events that turn them into the young people they become: *Stan, while struggling to figure out who he is and what he can be, survives the biggest fire his small community has ever seen. *Clark, an outstanding athlete, discovers he is even more talented as a jazz musician while he mourns the unexpected passing of his father. *And Jill, perhaps the most gifted athlete in the county, ignores the societal gender restrictions of the time and is always there for her two best friends. She is the glue that holds the group together. Episodic in nature, it is a tale that both adult and young adult readers of historical fiction will find humorous and inspirational. — ASIN: B0DFPPNP6F | ISBN13: 9798991249607 | ISBN-13: 979-8991249607