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Dennis Carney is a fourteen year old high school freshman who loves baseball. When his mother mentions a vacation that could interfere with his summer baseball camp he responds unenthusiastically, needing the camp to ensure his place on the junior varsity team next year. He wonders if she'll ask his ten year old sister Millie her view. During the discussion, a glass of water slides out of his mother's hand, crashing to the floor. To Dennis and Millie, it looked as if their mother had purposely just let it go. Mom says it's just a broken glass and asks that they not mention it to their father…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Dennis Carney is a fourteen year old high school freshman who loves baseball. When his mother mentions a vacation that could interfere with his summer baseball camp he responds unenthusiastically, needing the camp to ensure his place on the junior varsity team next year. He wonders if she'll ask his ten year old sister Millie her view. During the discussion, a glass of water slides out of his mother's hand, crashing to the floor. To Dennis and Millie, it looked as if their mother had purposely just let it go. Mom says it's just a broken glass and asks that they not mention it to their father who is at work in the firehouse. Den feels it's more than that, so he secretly texts his dad about what happened. This begins the family's roller coaster ride that comes after a diagnosis of MS.
Autorenporträt
Neal Stoffers is a retired Newark Fire Captain. He began his career as a firefighter assigned to Engine Company 6 located on Springfield Avenue and Hunterdon Street and fought fires in Newark's Central Ward from the late 1970s until the mid 1980s. During this period he found time to earn a B.A. from Seton Hall University. In 1991 he earned an M.A. from the same school. MS forced him out of the firehouse, but not off the job. Over the next twenty years, his varied assignments included everything from the Office of Hazardous Materials to vice president of the Newark Firefighters Union. However, most Newark firefighters will remember him instructing them at the Training Academy. He has written 8 oral history books about the Newark Fire Department, 3 adult novels, 3 children's novels, and a short history of the Chinese in New Jersey.