The Path of the Wind
James A. Misko
(Author)
Description
GOLD/1ST PLACE AWARD WINNER, 2018 FEATHERED QUILL BOOK AWARDS
(ADULT FICTION category)
NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNER 2018 - BEST FICTION
PNWA NANCY PEARL CONTEST FINALIST
(LITERARY/MAINSTREAM FICTION category)
Miles Foster is a newly minted teacher who dreams of getting a teaching job in the highly respected and financially stable Portland, Oregon school system where everything is available, and where he and his wife call home. But the only opening for his talents is in a remote lumber mill town in central Oregon, two hundred miles away. It is a poor school with forty students, and is controlled by a jealous superintendent and school board who tolerate no thinking outside the box and who conspire to destroy his teaching career.
Miles must find a way to educate students who have been passed along regardless of what they learned, and defeat the damaging control of the school board and superintendent without losing his marriage or his job, or both.
Product Details
| Publisher | Square One Publishers |
| Publish Date | April 04, 2017 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780757004445 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
James A. Misko (1932 - 2019) was born in Nebraska, then moved to Oregon and Alaska, completing what for him was a natural bridge to the frontier. He worked in his time as an oil field roughneck, a logger, truck driver, saw mill hand, teacher, journalist, real estate broker, and writer.
To read his obituary, feel free to click here.
Reviews
"[In The Path of the Wind, ] Misko skillfully paints a portrait of a person that may well be familiar to many of us: a passionate teacher. Filled with carefully chosen details and distinct voices, the author transports us back to a desk in the classroom of the teachers we most revered as young ones. Misko, as it turns out, was himself a teacher, a fact that gives his storytelling an extra punch of realism. We can sense his own affection for the small town of Tamarack--and the pressures on a young teacher and his burgeoning family. This is an inspiring story, a classic tale of trying to expand a small town's rigid boundaries and change children's lives for the better. As we follow Miles along The Path of the Wind, we find ourselves rooting for him every step of the way."
--Patricia Gale "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer"Earn by promoting books
