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Written in the style of Mitch Albom's, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The School Factory by Christine Adams switches time from present day, to the past and into the future. The commanding day is June 10th. The primary storyteller, Jenny Anderson, a loved senior English teacher. As the story opens, "Mrs. A." is in a head-on collision on her way to the graduation. In her unconscious state, she traces the year flashing back to events involving a dozen students. Their issues include illiteracy, early pregnancy, learning disabilities, crime, homosexuality, sexual perversion, racial bias, alcoholism and drug addiction. The conflict - their "real" human issues versus the "inhumane" school institution. By symbolically making all kids "products" tracked on different conveyor belts - in the factory, the author rips open the heart and soul of Heritage High.Throughout the novel, the conflict between the human needs of the teens and the rules of the factory builds. Some kids drop off the conveyor belt; one, Jim Bartlett, chooses suicide as his way out. In the last thread of the novel, the dying teacher meets Jim Bartlett. With Jim, now as her teacher, she experiences a true "TIMELESSNESS". She sees her students in their future lives. By expanding time, the author is able to help the teacher and the reader make sense of the incongruity and emptiness of a typical year in the school factory.
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Christine A. Adams, M.A., has been writing about issues of addiction, relationships, spirituality, and education for over 35 years. She has over 3,000,000 separate books and pamphlets in print with works published in 54 countries translated into many languages. Christine, an English teacher, was also formerly trained as an addiction counselor in 1986. However, most of her writing parallels her life experiences. Her early writings were about the alcoholic marriage, adult children of alcoholics, teen alcoholism, and sexual addiction. Then came books about spirituality, relationships, grief therapy and education. In addition, she has produced four very popular Elf Help children's books: Happy To Be Me, Learning To Be A Good Friend, Worry, Worry, Go Away, and God Made Us One By One. One of her best-known recovery books is the adult Elf Help gift book, One Day At A Time Therapy which is still selling in places like Taiwan, China, South Korea, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Indonesia, and Brazil. Among her other books are: Seasons: Spiritual Meditations for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall; Let Go, Let God; Teacher of God; Holy Relationships; and ABC's of Grief: A Handbook For Survivors. She has also written a fictional narrative, inspired by her years of teaching, titled The School Factory, as well as a romantic novel named September Love. Additionally, she has authored four out of the five titles in the Spiritual Way of Life series, which encompass Joy, Peace, Love, Acceptance, and Gratitude.Visit her at www.christineaadams.com or www.hanleyadamspublishing.com to find all her books.
