Over the Wall (RPM) [Paperback]

Chris Fabry (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up | Series: RPM

Tim Carhardt is drifting through life with one goal—survival. Jamie Maxwell believes she can become, no, will become the first female winner of the cup. But life isn't always as easy as it seems. What happens when dreams and faith hit the wall? In the trademark page-turner style used by Chris Fabry in the Left Behind: The Kids series, these fast-paced books will keep even reluctant readers on the edge of their seats. Go behind the scenes of America's most-watched sport to see what it's like inside a 200-mph racecar as engines rev and lives collide.

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About the Author

Chris Fabry has written more than 50 books for adults and children, including the Red Rock Mysteries series with Jerry B. Jenkins and the Left Behind: The Kids series with Jerry B. Jenkins and Dr. Tim LaHaye.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Paperback: 187 pages
• Publisher: Tyndale Kids (July 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1414312652
• ISBN-13: 978-1414312651
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,360,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thanks for stopping by my Amazon page. The new book is out, Not in the Heart. It's what I consider my most riveting, suspenseful, and yet relational book yet. A mystery within a mystery within an addiction. I dedicate this to all who have someone in their life who is addicted.

I was born in West Virginia in 1961. I read a lot, but not very fast, and wrote poems, songs, and transcribed Marx Brothers movies and memorized dialogue.

In 1984 I met Jerry Jenkins at Moody Bible Institute. He offered to help me learn to write and I took him up on the offer. In 1998, Jerry and Dr. Tim LaHaye hired me to help write the Left Behind: The Kids series. After that I worked on several other series for children and then published my first adult novel in 2008. It took more than six years to write Dogwood and find a publisher. It received a 2009 Christy Award.

My next novel, June Bug, drew its themes from the classic Victor Hugo tale, Les Miserables. Then, Almost Heaven released and also won a couple of awards.

In addition to my fiction, I have also collaborated on a couple of best-selling football biographies with Ohio State's Jim Tressel and, most recently, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints.

I graduated from the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. I have been married to Andrea since 1982. We have nine children. In October of 2008, our family evacuated our house in Colorado, leaving behind all our belongings because of a toxic mold exposure. Since then we have been living near Tucson, AZ in order to get medical help for the mold exposure.

Stop by my website at www.chrisfabry.com to learn more about my writing and radio endeavors, and be sure to sign up for my e-newsletter, the FABRYGRAM. I can also be found on Facebook, Twitter, or you can e-mail me at [e-mail].

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read the book myself before passing it along to the kids., August 21, 2007

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RJ Sutherland (Atlanta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over the Wall (RPM) (Paperback)

Chris Fabry is a master of extending story lines without dragging them out. Great writers like Chris don't just write the same story 15 times, they develop characters and have them grow and mature. We get to know the characters to the point where we can almost anticipate their reactions to the situations in which they find themselves. Better yet, we're right there with them.

I intended to give the kids in my extended family my copies of the first two RPM books but I ended up reading them both first. And I had a good time doing so.

The first NASCAR-based volume had a quicker pace. Over the Wall brought more depth to the characters and greater definition of their aspirations and obstacles in their paths, as you would expect from any writer with Chris Fabry's talent and experience.

I admire Fabry for his ability to create realistic conflicts that his characters face and resolve. The characters become our friends -- or mutual enemies -- and the people we would like to become or "should have" become.

These books -- free of dependence on sex, drugs, and rock and roll -- will keep the young people in your life on the path to a lifetime of reading, and using that quickly vanishing commodity: imagination.

My only complaint is that as I turned a page to begin the next chapter all I saw was Fabry's smiling face! The book halted in mid-step for all of those involved.

Now comes the wait for the next volume. And the next, probably. But, if the first two are any indication, the wait will be worth it. I'm looking forward to hearing from my new friends.