Bob Jonas

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Between these pages: the scintillating, sometimes hysterical, life of Bob Jonastraveler, trucker, librarian, and storyteller. From his earliest memories, all Bob ever wanted to do was put as much distance between himself and wherever he was. Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl, his early adulthood started him off in a semi-truck, where he logged over a million miles in eleven western states, then continuing his journey overseas in forty-seven countries. His lust for adventure was more than a call to travel, but a sacrosanct mission, finding his roll as a school librarian, and storyteller, the perfect platform from which to spread his beliefs in seven schools on four continents, where he was able to motivate, inspire, stimulate, stir, cajole, provoke, and do whatever was necessary to get kids to read. With his unbound passion for books, stories, and literacy, he's been able to guide his charges on the same path that led him to discover the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bob Jonas
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215104811
• Artikelnr.: 69933818

Autorenporträt

Bob Jonas has been a school librarian for twenty-one years; four in Beaverton, Oregon and seven in ChinaShanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. In South America he worked for three years in Santiago, Chile, and then three years in the in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After completing his final post in Erlangen, Germany, Bob decided to retire to continue doing what he loves to do bestwrite action packed novels for young adults.

Using experiences from his work with kids overseas, he employs an extensive knowledge of expatriate living to write about these kids and their frontline exposure to political intrigue, revolution, overthrow, and war. ChinAlive, his first action thriller for YA kids involved a student at an international school in Shanghai, swept up in a plot to overthrow the Chinese government. Imposter, his second action thrillersoon to be released in January, 2016follows an angry, pissed off American student in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia trying to reconcile his western sensibilities with the new life his parents have forced upon him. Equipped with a Teflon coated, can't touch me attitude, he transgress basic rules of living in a foreign country and finds that he has put he and his whole family in great danger.

Bob's travel and writing obsessions began after reading Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki when he was he was ten. His storytelling obsession began with his dadthe greatest tale teller, BS artiste, mesmerizer, and raconteur the younger Jonas would ever lean on for inspiration. His first fifteen years of adulthood found him living the travel adventure in a semi-truck where he logged over a million miles in twelve western states. Unfortunately, the road stint lasted about twelve years too long. After too many speeding tickets, too many run-ins with angry weigh masters, bad, bad, and double bad winter weather, not to mention a real bad back, he knew it was time to find his old college degree and get himself somewhere else. School librarian, perhaps? A very strange tale indeed.

As a storyteller, writer, and librarian he has motivated, inspired, stimulated, stirred, cajoled, provoked, and done what was necessary to instill a love of reading in kids on four continents. Through his writing he hopes to continue the work he has been doing for over two decades.