The Best Kind of Tough

The Best Kind of Tough
Fei Meng
Jeff Minick
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Sometimes, we find inspiration and sound advice in unexpected sources.

Prompted by a friend, I recently read Jocko Willink’s “Way of the Warrior Kid III: Where There’s a Will ... ” In this novel for adolescents, which is directed especially at boys, we meet Marc, a seventh-grader who’s having problems adjusting to Danny, a new kid in Marc’s circle of buddies.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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