Category: Young Adult/Teen Publisher: Amazon
Type: Fiction
Pages: 593
Copyright: August 1, 2015
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
The four works of the Stu Greene series have been combined into a single work titled “Rookery Island”.
Stu Greene is a high school junior on the cusp of the transition from amateur to professional photographer. Skilled and creative, his photographs are routinely published in newspapers and are proudly displayed in government offices in the area in which he lives.
He accidentally encounters a girl for whom he takes on a project to create a wild bird rookery from a large drainage pond. This is the story of how that chance encounter changes not only their lives, but those of their families and friends as the young man carries them along in his drive to create a lasting monument of his love.
In the second book of the Stu Greene series, Stu is called to rescue his girlfriend’s college roommate’s sister from an abusive relationship. He takes the sisters and his girlfriend to his uncle’s citrus farm to hide. While there, his roommate falls in love his girlfriend’s roommate, his cousin falls in love with the sister, they bust a corrupt FBI agent and Stu performs a rescue at sea.
It’s just another day at the office for a journalism student between his freshman and sophomore years.
In the third book of the series, a successful software executive inherits a run-down zoo and water park when most men his age would be retiring. Even his depth of business experience is not enough to keep his adversaries at bay so he resorts to tactics not usually associated with legitimate businesses.
The fourth and final volume in the Stu Greene Series chronicles the one year long voyage that Stu and several of his friends take on a floating video studio that is not exactly what it seems to be.
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Excerpt
Natalie Marshall smiled when she spotted Stu Greene exactly where she expected to find him. He was hiding behind a bush with his camera pointed at a dark gray bird in the hedge between the football field and the wetland mitigation site.
Stu glanced up as Natalie approached. He saw the smile but did not pay attention to it. He did notice the reddish highlights in Natalie’s long dark hair as the light from the afternoon sun and the slight breeze conspired to give her a dark halo. Stu sighed. Her boyfriend was the campus bully and the school’s all-star all-American. That fact helped keep Stu from jumping up and saying something stupid to try to impress her which he might have done anyway if he was not preoccupied. Stu shifted his attention back to his camera. Natalie’s smile broadened. Composing a text message with her thumbs, Natalie stepped on Stu’s outstretched foot.
“Oww, Natalie watch where you’re walking.”
“Stu Greene, what are you doing hiding behind that bush? Did I step on your foot?”
“Yes, will you be quiet?”
Stu blinked and shook his head. Natalie Marshall was one of the prettiest girls in school. She had been on the gymnastics team last year until she had injured her wrist near the end of her final routine at the state finals last spring. Stu knew how she looked in her gymnastics uniform. As the school’s best sports photographer, Stu had taken her picture many times in her tight fitting uniform. Stu’s photograph of Natalie holding her wrist in pain with her team around her made that week’s cover of the school newspaper and the weekend sports round-up on two television stations and the city’s biggest newspaper. Stu liked Natalie. She seemed more refined than the other girls and was one of the few girls in school that did not tower over him. She didn’t swear all the time like they did and neither did he. To his way of thinking only stupid people swore all the time because they had nothing better to say. She looked like she could be his sister more than his sister did. This year the only team she was on was the debate team and their team practice pictures were not as exciting as gymnastics. Still, at the risk of offending her, Stu had other things on his mind.
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