Kenneth and Lora Fenter, High school and elementary teachers respectively and their children Phil and Janelle 12 and 9 journey to a village in Kyushu, Japan about 15 miles from Nagasaki to teach English in a highschool/junior college. The children enter the local junior high school and elementary schools of Isahaya, Japan. Life begins for the family in the town of Isahaya. The town of roughly the same size as their hometown of Springfield, Oregon, 50,000 is similar in some respects. Springfield is near Eugene a larger University city with more cultural activities. Isahaya is near Nagasaki with a world history as the site of the second city in the world bombed by an atomic weapon and as the only city in Japan open to European influence during medieval Japan times.The family has answered the call to go to Japan to teach English issued by a visitor to their home, an English teacher from Nagasaki. She had told them they didn't need to speak Japanese because all Japanese learned English from junior high school age on. They needed English speakers to hear the spoken language.The family is shocked to learn when they arrive that this isn't necessarily true. But rise to the challenge of learning to cope with their own sudden illiteracy while left to their own devices in teaching in their new assignments.The children begin to assimilate the language, culture, and are suddenly in high demand as guests in the homes of the neighborhood. Families welcome the entire family and introduce the Fenters to the local culture and to the culture of Japan.Through a set of journals kept at the time, Fenter recreated many of the daily situations and encounters in three books about the two year experience and a following three years of doing business with the community. Gaijin! Gaijin! which means Foreigner! Foreigner! chronicles the first year. MoIchido; Once More covered the second year, Suteindo Gurasu: Stained Glass, covered the three following years. This Kindle edition is the first time Gaijin! Gaijin! appears in e-edition. Gaijin! Gaijin! was originally released in print in 1985, a second edition was released in 1987 and a third print edition will be released shortly after the new year. This Kindle edition is the text of the 2010 edition.Kenneth Fenter

Gaijin! Gaijin!

Politics & Social Sciences

Fenter, Kenneth

Social Sciences

Cross Cultural Pr

During a school shooting, teacher Clifton Kelley flashes back 40 years when he had waited, rifle in hand, prepared to use deadly force. Instead, of shooting his nemesis, 14-year-old Cliff had disappeared into a canyon near Mesa Verde, to live alone for a year in the shelter of an Ancient Puebloan cliff dwelling. The boy learns to gather, hunt, and survive the harsh winter, and emerges whole in the spring to test himself.

Ruin: A Boy's Quest to Rebuild His Self Worth by Seeking Refuge in the Wilderness

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

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The Ruin is a story about bullying, damaged lives, and the tragic consequences that too often end in suicide or even the ultimate tragedy: school shootings. The Ruin begins with retiring English teacher Clifton Kelley caring for his class during a school lock down, because across town a boy is shooting classmates in the school cafeteria. Kelley flashes back 40 years to himself as a 14 year old boy, who after years of school-yard bullying, is driven to make the decision whether to aim his rifle at the boys who have bullied and beaten him or seek refuge from his rage by fleeing to the wilderness. The Ruin then becomes the story of his survival using the knowledge he has gained from his parents and the Museum at Mesa Verde National Park. For the next year he takes shelter in a cliff dwelling in the foothill canyons of Mesa Verde. There he gathers food, learns to hunt using a primitive weapon, stores food for the winter, and devises clothing to protect himself from the harsh mountain climate. The boy connects with the spirits of the long departed Ancient Puebloans whose dwelling he finds home. Spare time in his long days of solitude become a time of introspection, communing with nature, and creativity. In the end he is challenged to test his newfound confidence and consider new relationships.

The Ruin: A boy's quest to rebuild his self worth by seeking refuge in the wilderness

Contemporary

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The Ruin: Rage... is about a boy driven to the brink of deadly force by school bullys by Kenneth Fenter. A 14 year old must decide whether to murder his tormentors or choose another way to deal with the rage that is taking control of him. He finds himself sitting by the road with a rifle in hand waiting with images playing in his mind waiting for school to be out... The Ruin: Rage is a re-release of Book One of The Ruin published in 2010 by Kenneth Fenter. The original edition encompassed five books covering a year in the life of Cliff Kelly. Because of it's length and complexity, the target audience has tended to shy away from it. This adaptation focuses on the first week the critical area of the book. The climax of the bullying during his time at East Lakeview grade school and the final act that drives him to make the decision of whether to face his tormentor with deadly force or to find another way to deal with it. Either decision will carry serious life changing consequences for him, his family, the bully and his family. This novel examines Cliff’s decision and the turmoil that his decision causes the families on Summit Ridge Colorado. This new edition is re-designed with larger type for easier reading. It is aimed at the Middle school -high school -young adult audience although parents will learn about the dangers of bullying and consequences of long term bullying in schools whether at the hands of students or teachers.

The Ruin: Rage

The Ruin: Survival is the summer of Cliff Kelly’s sojourn to regain his self-worth after years of persistent bullying by students, a teacher and severe punishment at home. It focuses on the summer after Cliff Kelly decides to remain in the ruin after running away from home. He has nothing with him except his .22 single shot rifle and a box of shells, a change of clothing and a journal. The rifle he can't use without being discovered in his hideout a mile and a half from home. To make the clothes last he has to learn how to clean them. The journal has valuable information on the edible plants growing in the canyon, and clippings about tools and crafts of the ancients who once inhabited the 4 Corners of the Colorado area. He must learn, not only to survive, but gather and store enough food for winter if he is going to stay there. Although resources abound in the desert canyon, they are only usable if he learns which are edible and storable and he can devise means to store and prepare them. He must also learn to hunt as the primitives did, tan hides, and weave cloth using fibre from plants growing in the canyon. And at the 7,000 foot elevation he has to amass a foot supply to survive an eight month winter within a three and a half month summer. The Ruin: Survival is volume two of three of what was originally published in 2010 as The Ruin, which in one volume encompassed a year. This new series is redesigned with larger type for easier reading.

The Ruin: Survival

The Ruin: Homecoming is the fall, winter, spring and homecoming portion of what was originally published in 2010 as The Ruin, which in Five Parts encompassed a year. This new edition is re-designed with larger type for easier reading and focuses on the critical area of the book Cliff Kelly? survival of the eight month long severe winter at the over 7,000 foot elevation location of the cliff dwelling. He is isolated in the cave with no one for company but the skunk and magpie. During that time of creativity and contemplation he has time to think about the directions that will determine the course of the rest of his life. This section also contains the dramatic controntation with his tormentor Hector and reunion with his family.

The Ruin: Homecoming

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Cullen, Mrs. Deborah Rands

Garrett, Bev

Johnson, Glenna Whitbeck

Laakso, Marc Chadwick

McMinimy, Barbara

Olin, Bonnie

Roemer, Conrad

Warren, Agnes Rands

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Independently published

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