A storm at sea in a small boat, a stubborn teenager, an encouraging father, a striving stepmother, a new love relationship, and a terrible disaster...All, and more, are tumbled into this story of a nearly-grown boy confronting the challenges of coming of age. It is a story that will ring clearly in the minds of young readers—male and female—as they too face the pains and joys of transition out of their teenage years.And as he struggles, adult readers will a...

Why do I have friends, family members, a job, a place to live, and things to put in it—but also have those pesky people who frequently disturb my sense of comfort and satisfaction with life?And, it isn't just people that are a problem. It is also bacteria that cause diseases, bugs that bite, the neighbor's dogs that won't stop barking, weeds that keep growing in my garden, trees that crash in a storm, or even elephants that invade my farm crop and tigers that stalk...