Ahead of the Crowd

From the back cover: Encounter Books for story lovers from 9 to 90. Encounter Books are a gold mine of enjoyable reading and wholesome inspiration, written in an engaging, smooth-flowing style. Great heroes and saints of God come alive with all the dynamism of their noble ideals. Dramatically illustrated, each volume has a specifically designed plastic coated cloth cover. ~~~ From Wikipedia: Dominic Savio (Italian: Domenico Savio; April 2, 1842 – March 9, 1857) was an Italian adolescent student of Saint John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy. His teacher, John Bosco, had very high regard for Savio, and wrote a biography of his young student, The Life of Dominic Savio. This volume, along with other accounts of him, were critical factors in his cause for sainthood. Despite the fact that many people considered him to have died at too young an age – fourteen – to be considered for sainthood, he was considered el