Hoot Owl Shares the Dawn
by Jennifer Pratt French
Published by Hickory Tales Press
Trade Paper: 6" x 9", 128.pp.
ISBN 0-9709104-4-4 $9.95
Special Price $8.95

In this heartwarming, family oriented adventure, an Anglo-Paiute Indian teen, Johnny B. Falcon, angry at his life's misfortunes runs away from his oppressive home at the Moapa Indian Reservation, desperate to find a normal life. "I feel like I'm the last jagged piece of a jigsaw puzzle lost forever."

With his poor self-image, Johnny hops a cattle truck with his adventures taking him through Nevada to Las Vegas, Dayspring and beyond. He meets a beautiful girl, Lisa, but all seems lost when Johnny has to learn life's lessons the hard way, breaks the law and is sent to reform school. But ironically and fortunately, his association there with three good people: Dr. Lovejoy, Warden Peters and especially old Hoot Owl, the custodian, is about to help Johnny find worth in his own true self.

Hoot Owl is an 80 year old Indian, once himself an inmate, who empathizes with Johnny and brings about an awakening… after Johnny’s darkest night.
Hoot Owl shares with Johnny his wisdom, plus one surprising Indian secret that will change Johnny's, and also Lisa's, life forever. Hickory Press won Honorable Mention in the 2005 Independent Publishers Book Awards.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

After living in Denver, Colorado for 32 years, Jennifer French decided it was time for a new life-adventure … and what a fabulous journey it’s been thus far. So many of Jennifer’s passions and dreams have come alive since moving to the Oregon coast. Soon after arriving in Florence, she published a young adult, multi-cultural novel, Hoot Owl Shares The Dawn. Her book won ‘honorable mention’ in the 2005 Independent Publisher’s Awards. Jennifer’s now writing a quirky novel, Under The Same Roof, and it takes place ‘in a funny… but not so funny’ retirement home.

With a major in advertising and minor in journalism, Jennifer’s passion for the arts and writing started early. After a long career in college administration she moved to Oregon where she realized her real passion was painting in watercolors and writing.

In 2005, Jennifer and her life partner walked into an old vacant building and, with the help of fifteen other artists, managed to transform a five-room house into a thriving artist co-op and art gallery in Florence. Now the Backstreet Gallery is "home" for twenty fabulous local artists and has become a pulsating art movement on the central Oregon coast.

Whether it’s writing or painting, Jennifer’s creativity always seems to reflect her inner joys, light-hearted humor and passion for life’s simplicities. Please visit her website at:

http://www.jenniferfrench.com