Bøker av Tim D. Smith

Meet Josh Raines. He's about to be a senior at McMinn County High School. He runs cross country and track. Josh Raines is dying. Meet Tully Kismet. Smart. Pretty. She's about to be a senior at McMinn Central High School. She runs cross country and track. Tully has a secret, and when she meets Josh she doesn't tell him her secret until it's too late for either of them to run away. Is it possible for a young adult novel to be heart wrenching and yet uplifting all at the same time? That's Run For Your Life, so named because that's what the heroes do. They run for their lives.

"You know Mrs. Gibbins?" "Yeah," John David said, looking straight into my eyes. "She's my teacher." "Your teacher?" I asked. Now I was really confused. "Sure," he said, "and this book is the last thing I remember." John David closed the book, turned it around so I could read the cover, and pushed it across the desk toward me. My blood ran cold when I read the inscription: THE COVEN OF WESTLAKE ELEMENTARY. "For some reason," John David said, "I don't think she's coming back."

In this 1994 book, Tim Smith examines the economic and political pressures which have affected fisheries science, and the problems that still face it. This is a fascinating resource for all those interested in the way fisheries science has developed in the last 150 years.