Making Your Mark: Finding Forgiveness and a Fresh Start at Mark Twain High School
About this ebook
Seventeen-year-old Luke Jenkins has spent most of his life being written off by the system, the courts, and nearly everyone he’s ever known. With a criminal record longer than his list of friends and adulthood just weeks away, Luke stands at the edge of a future that looks destined for prison.
Then a judge makes an extraordinary decision.
Given a single year to turn his life around, Luke is placed in a supervised home, enrolled at Mark Twain High School, and forced to confront the choices that brought him there. Along the way, he encounters unexpected mentors, a determined young woman who believes in him before he believes in himself, and the enduring wisdom of Mark Twain—whose words echo through Luke’s journey of accountability, forgiveness, and self-discovery.
Making Your Mark is a powerful coming-of-age novel about responsibility, redemption, and the courage it takes to choose a better path. Heartfelt, hopeful, and deeply human, this story reminds us that our past does not define us—but our choices do.
About the author
Jim Stovall has been a National Olympic weightlifting champion, the President of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network, and a highly sought after author and platform speaker. He is the author of the best selling book, The Ultimate Gift, which is now a major motion picture starring James Garner and Abigail Breslin. Six of his other novels have also been made into movies with several more in production.
Steve Forbes, president and CEO of Forbes magazine, says, “Jim Stovall is one of the most extraordinary men of our era.”
For his work in making television accessible to our nation’s 13 million blind and visually impaired people, The President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity selected Jim Stovall as the Entrepreneur of the Year. He was also chosen as the International Humanitarian of the Year, joining Jimmy Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Mother Teresa as recipients of this honor.
More information is available at www.jimstovall.com
