Books - Baker's Dozen
ISBN: 1-932802-96-7 Price: $9.95 217 pages Author: Joshua Matthew Moorhead Cover illustration: Justin DeGarmo Cover design: Shannon Mattiza Discover the impact of 9/11 on a generation. Baker’s Dozen is the story of a character and a generation, and of the character of a generation. It is the story of Justin Baker, a thoughtful yet whimsical high school senior who’s living the best times of his life in the summer of 2001, and nervously anticipates the real world. Caught somewhere between who he wants to be, who others want him to be, and who he really is, he looks for purpose. As the 13 days of his journal unfold, he will discover all he is and more than he expected through his closest friends, his family, the two loves of his life, and his presumed enemy, the universally celebrated but eternally calculating socialite Billy Crawford. From scandals on the faculty to run-ins with the law, from cross-dressing lip-sync artists to covert ops on the school roof, from chance encounters with Vanilla Ice to spirited battles on the playing field, from politics to pop culture, from history class to history itself. It is in this odyssey of high school that Justin will discover the triumphs of love, faith, friendship, and the confusion, chaos, and horror of the 9/11 tragedy. Justin will find his rite of passage, and in just 13 days, he and the world will change. In 13 days he and the reader will discover something not only about themselves, but about their world, their purpose, and why we are all who we are - and in the process he will become a man. Video: Josh discusses Baker's Dozen (3 Minutes) Click here to Order This page current as of May 24, 2007 8:43 AM |
