I just finished an excellent young pre-teen read. “Skipping Stones at the Center of the Earth” by Andy Hueller. It seemed slow until the pieces of the story started to fit together like a well made puzzle. I enjoyed the character development and situations thoughout the book that we all face in our youth even though we aren’t orphans ourselves. As we go through our mundane repeated efforts of our lives, even they may seem out of our control. We will choose, sometimes by attitude only, which direction life will take. Action and reaction are closely related in the entire story where little mistakes can change the course of our lives always.