BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN BOOKS
Updated note: Although the Amazon.com list of Top 100
Best Sellers is constantly changing, TYLER'S MOUNTAIN
MAGIC has been ranked in the Top 10 in three different
categories, including #1 in the Kindle e-book version under
the catagory of sports>individual sports>wrestling.
TYLER'S MOUNTAIN MAGIC was named by the West Virginia
Writers, Inc. as the best book length story in 2011. It was also
selected as the winner of the 2012 Pinnacle Book Achievment
Award in Sports.
TYLER’S MOUNTAIN MAGIC is based on the true story of a boy from Harpers Ferry with cystic fibrosis and the most magical sports ride in West Virginia public school history.
When Tyler Moore, a teenage boy with cystic fibrosis, goes out for the Harpers Ferry Junior High wrestling team in 1997, it makes everyone wonder why. Not only is it a demanding sport, the little school has never had a winning season in anything. But Tyler knows that time is not on his side and dreams of achieving something that has never been done before, to be remembered.
For three years he convinces his teammates who live on Blue Ridge Mountain that if they all stick together, they can have their lives marked forever by what they do. What happens during their last year is still talked about today, both the good and the bad. As Tyler strives to fulfill what everyone says is an impossible dream, the boys learn about friendship and courage and hanging on to what is truly important.
Today there are no signs in Harpers Ferry honoring John Brown and his infamous raid that ignited the Civil War. But there is a single sign honoring a teenage boy who not only gave his small town a dream, he also ended a war in the county that had been going on forever. Unfortunately, everything comes with a price.
What other writers have to say about Tyler's Mountain Magic:
"Malcolm Ater has written a lovely story about a young
boy with cystic fibrosis, whose courage and inspiration
make everyone around him--and everyone who reads
Tyler's Mountain Magic--appreciate the gift of life more.
Tyler is brave as he learns to wrestle and noble as he
deals with his disease."
--Frank Deford, author of Alex: The Life Of A
Child, and 15 other books. He has been selected six times
as the U.S. National Sportswriter of the Year and is a mem-
ber of the National Sportswriters Hall of Fame. He is also
President Emeritus of the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
“Tyler’s Mountain Magic has great moral fabric besides the central
story that follows the dreams of a teenage boy. I laughed. I cried.
If anyone can read this book without crying, they don’t have a heart.”
---Bob O’Connor, author of six historical fiction novel
.
"Malcolm Ater takes the reader inside the world of a special boy who,
through his faith, single-handedly inspires his friends, his school, his
community, and everyone he touches. A must read for one and all.”
---Lauren Carr, author of four murder mysteries
Note: Please visit Amazon.com to view what other readers have to say about Tyler's Mountain Magic.
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