At Risk of Being a Fool

By Jeanette Cottrell

Book Overview

Jeanie McCoy is a retired teacher. Her husband of forty years doesn't remember who she is, and the rest of her family has split to the winds. She's coping just fine, thanks very much. Jeanie works... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0373267282
• ISBN13: 9780373267286
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Worldwide
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

At Risk Of Being a Fool

Jeanie McCoy has taken a job teaching troubled kids so she can be near her ailing husband who is now confined to a nursing home. Although, she's been told not to get personally involved, she does so and adds to the load of worries that burden her heart. The variety of backgrounds and troubles the six near adult students have known will touch the reader as they do Jeanie. They seem to be as real as people you'd meet on the street. Problems continue to follow the six even as they are trying to fix their lives and regain their freedom. Someone is setting off pipe bombs that injure people and kill too. The police have connected the bombs to Jeanie's students, but she proves they couldn't have done it. While she is living with her own pain and trying to help her students, the six are each experiencing their own private agonies and secrets. Girls want to get back to their babies, a boy wants to be an artist, one loves working on motors, and another boy is struggling with keeping his temper in check. Could one of them be the bomber despite alibis? The realities of these people will leave you sharing their tragedies, feeling as if you've walked a distance in their shoes. Their stories could come from the papers instead of the imagination of the talented author, Jeannette Cottrell. Recommended as an experience you won't soon forget. People you will long remember. I know I will.