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In baseball, fielding your position at third base is tricky—that''s why third is called "the hot corner." You have to be aware that anything can happen at any time.

This should be the best year of Scott''s life: It''s his last season of varsity ball, his team is about to go to the city championship, and a pro career is on the line. Instead, everything he always counted on comes crashing down at the same time, and his whole life is like one blazing hot corner—full of deadly line drives and crazy "bad hops."

Scott can''t believe the awful stuff coming his way, but it''s time to find out whether he has what it takes to play the hot corner—on the baseball diamond and off it.

Stuck in Neutral, a Printz Honor Book, introduced the world to Shawn McDaniel, a fourteen-year-old kid with cerebral palsy. But what happens next?

Shawn''s got a new perspective on life. But no one has a clue. That''s because they can see only his wheelchair, his limp body, his drool. What they don''t see? His brain, with perfect auditory memory. And his heart, which is in love with a girl. And his fierce belief that someday someone will realize there''s way more to him than his appearance.

How do you connect with others when you can''t talk, walk, or even wave hello? In the sequel to Stuck in Neutral, which ALA Booklist called "an intense reading experience," Shawn McDaniel discovers a new definition of "normal" and finds that life happens next for everyone.

The powerful story of a boy''s fear and courage in the face of a force of nature too huge to even imagine.

Based on Hurricane Mitch''s devastation of Honduras in 1998, Terry Trueman''s acclaimed Hurricane is a gripping, realistic story told from the perspective of a hurricane survivor.

After hours of cowering in the dark with no lights, no warmth, and the terrible noises of the rain and wind pounding on the walls, José walks out his front door and steps into a nightmare. Everything is gone. Everything except for the desperate courage of those who survived that terrifying night.

But his nightmare has only begun as he and the few who are left in his small village dig for survivors, search for food and water, and try to start pulling their lives back together.

In a busy coffee shop, a robbery goes wrong. Two gunmen hold seven hostages, including teenager Zach Wahhsted. What nobody realizes at first is that Zach is anything but ordinary and his troubled mind is more dangerous than any weapon. Terry Trueman has created a compelling character with the same shocking power and heartbreaking compassion as his Printz Honor Award debut novel, Stuck in Neutral.

Ages 12+

I heard the gunshot and I knew what had happened. Even before I made it downstairs to Dad''s office, I knew what he''d done.

How do you live your life after catastrophe hits your family? How do you go back to football practice, or take a girl out on a date, or talk to your friends about normal stuff when nothing is normal anymore? Three years after his father''s death, Jordan is still wondering.

But then, salvation comes—in the form of a ''76 Corvette. It''s gorgeous, it''s beautiful, it''s incredibly sexy. And so is the girl who suddenly takes notice of him.

Slowly Jordan realizes that maybe, just maybe, he can start living again. But the real question is: Does he want to?

Stuck in Neutral, a Printz Honor Book, introduced the world to Shawn McDaniel, a fourteen-year-old kid with cerebral palsy. But what happens next?

Shawn''s got a new perspective on life. But no one has a clue. That''s because they can see only his wheelchair, his limp body, his drool. What they don''t see? His brain, with perfect auditory memory. And his heart, which is in love with a girl. And his fierce belief that someday someone will realize there''s way more to him than his appearance.

How do you connect with others when you can''t talk, walk, or even wave hello? In the sequel to Stuck in Neutral, which ALA Booklist called ""an intense reading experience,"" Shawn McDaniel discovers a new definition of ""normal"" and finds that life happens next for everyone.

This ""intense reading experience""* is a Printz Honor Book.

Shawn McDaniel''s life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can''t even move his eyes. For all Shawn''s father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn''s life is in danger.

To the world, Shawn''s senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life.

*Booklist starred review

SHEEHAN: HEARTBREAK AND REDEMPTION is a re-publication of the 1992 poem that inspired the Printz Honor novel STUCK IN NEUTRAL by Terry Trueman. In the second part of this e-book, based onthe 2007 Xlibris edition,is an extensive interview that includes 23 photographs relating to the real life story of Truemans son Henry Sheehan, the creation of the poem, and the remarkable history of thenovel STUCK IN NEUTRAL, an internationally beloved best seller.

Soon this book will be updated with anew interview segment, in e-book format,available at www.terrytrueman.comand other e-book distributors.