The Legend of Luke Steel

by Rell Webber


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 8/1/2011

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 212
ISBN : 9781463422295
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 212
ISBN : 9781463422288

About the Book

Derrick Steel was three years old when his mother moved him and his two sisters away from rural northeast Mississippi to live in St. Louis. Now twelve years later, fi fteen-year-old Derrick learns that his father, Luke Steel has become a legendary taxidermist in Mississippi because of his more unconventional specimens: a huge Hereford bull that now stands beside a prominent steak house, a pit bulldog who won more than forty-one illegal fi ghts before being shot by the local sheriff , and a wrestling bear whose fi nal match almost caused a second civil war in the county. But Derrick also discovers that his father has now been placed in a mental institution. Why had Luke Steel not contacted his son? And why was he now in a mental institution? Derrick’s answers can only be solved by returning to the place of his birth. And since his initial link to his father is an aunt who is deaf, Derrick must fi rst learn to communicate in American Sign Language.


About the Author

Rell Webber is an American Sign Language instructor at William Carey University. While growing up in north Mississippi, he became enthralled with a legend of an African-American taxidermist. The Legend of Luke Steel is a fictional account of that legend. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Terry, Ms.