Life has gotten tougher for 13-year-old Evan Green. A growth spurt and muscular development has transformed his former best friend Jay into the eighth-grade jock-of-all-jocks, while Ev is still short and scrawny. To make matters worse, Jay has the affections of drop-dead gorgeous Debbie. The only one left of the "Fearsome Foursome" of younger days who still values Ev’s company is freckled, bespectacled Dawn. 
The only way Ev believes he can gain respect—and Debbie’s heart is to beat lightning-fast Jay in the big race next June. Training for the race takes Ev into the New England woods, where he meets an old basketball-loving Native American who calls himself Grandfather. The aged Indian’s wisdom coincides with Ev’s classroom assignment concerning peace among the world’s nations. Ev discovers he has much to learn, including that winning can sometimes be losing, and that empathetic cooperation, rather than ego-driven competition, is the way to truly succeed in a more important race—the human one!

Deerfoot's Mile

Teen & Young Adult

Worth, Douglas

Literature & Fiction

Creative Arts Book Co.

Invisibilities : poems

Apple-wood Press

Invisibilities: Poems

Triptych

Poetry

Applewood Books

From Dream, from Circumstance: New and Selected Poems, 1963-1983

"This book of poetry ranges back through history to the 1600s and pleads with mankind to attend to the massive damage technological advancement is bringing to the biosphere. The poems warn that blindness to these changes, which wantonly destroy that understructure upon which life depends, will make the future of man a wasteland and a devastation. A single locale, Hemlock Gorge, a bypassed island of natural beauty immersed in the head-on rush of modern technological culture, is used to illustrate these dangers."

Echoes in Hemlock Gorge: An American Sequence for the New Millennium

Higganum Hill Books

Selected poems from the author's prolific and much admired writing. The poems are lyric and focus on the region in which he lived, around Cambridge and Eastern Massachusetts.

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