ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE is one of several novels that I am currently writing. It tells the story of Percival Milne, a boy who is average in every way, except ambition. Percival is too small to be an athlete, too normal to excel in school, too plain to capture the eye of Laurel Swain, the beauty of Siwanoy High School, and the girl friend of A.J. Hanover, who has every gift that God could bestow--handsom, athletic and... oh yes... rich. Percival is the butt of every prank of Billy Johnson, A.J.'s pal, and mad at God for putting him in this impossible situation. Running away from it all, Percival meets a stranger and has a strange--out-of-body--experience, where he finds out who he really is. Percival suddenly sees his life in a different way... and he emerges as a man on a mission, desperate to change the course of those he now sees in a whole new light.