Chasing Normal

High school sophomore Annie Smith is just hoping to live a normal life after she moves from Arkansas to the quiet little town of Reston, Texas. But it does not take long for her new friends to figure out that Annie is anything but normal. Annie's goal is to fly under the radar drawing as little attention to herself as possible. But she soon discovers that being normal does not always bring happiness.

Melinda "Chip" Fullerton is a gifted athlete with two wishes-to be taller and to be on a good team for once. As she starts her junior year of high school, it looks like both her wishes will go unfulfilled-until Annie shows up. Immediately suspicious of Annie's baggy clothes and athletic abilities, Chip enlists Luke Slowinski, sports editor for the school newspaper, to do some undercover sleuth work that eventually reveals the truth: Annie is not who she appears to be.

This is a story that illustrates the importance of building character as well as talent, Annie soon learns that a new beginning is all she needs to finally embrace her true self.

T. L. Hoch has been a golf professional, a small business owner, and has worked for a Fortune 500 company. He is currently a retired high school social science teacher and coach. In addition to the second book in the Chip Fullerton/Annie Smith Sports Series, "Discovering Balance", he is working on a football story and a golf story. You can read an excerpt from book number two at tlhochbooks.com. Tom lives with his wife of thirty-six years in northwest Illinois.