Burby, Thomas M.

Thomas M. Burby is a teacher, writer and musician. Having taught 12 and 13 year olds reading and writing for twenty-five years, he has a sixth sense about what young readers are seeking when they pick up a book to read. Young people are constantly following other people's rules and are under the protective shadow of their parents at all times. They never know a world where their parents do not rule and where the eyes of their peers are not judging them. If somehow a young person should wake up to an empty world, they would no longer be bound by rules and peer pressure. This book explores this