Sign up for the Summer Library Program , pick up a Teen's Choice Review Packet, and start reading to participate. For kids entering 7th - 8th grades. Once you ve wound up a clock, there s something frightful in the way it keeps going at its own relentless pace. Its hands move around the wheel as if they had a mind of their own.
Some stories are like that.
Once you ve wound them up, nothing will stop them. Everyone calls John Crash even his parents. Ever since Crash got his first football helmet, everyone knew he d be star. Crash loved football and he loved to win and nothing could get in the way of that, except for his oddball neighbor, Penn. Leon s Story by Leon Walter Tillage Leon Tillage recalls his childhood as an African American sharecropper s son in 1940s North Carolina.