Good morning list... I was out of town this week for a funeral and picked up a Peoria, IL newspaper to get a copy of the obit for my files. I was just sitting here clipping the obit and was ready to throw the rest of the paper away when the Fuqua name jumped out at me. There is an article (on page C1 in Monday, April 28, 2003) about the Peoria Reads program for the school children, and it talks about a book "The Reappearance of Sam Webber" by Jonathon Scott Fuqua. This is what the article says: The book tells the story of 11 year old Sam Webber whose father disappears leaving Sam and his mother to cope with poverty on their own. Forced to leave their middle class home to move into a poorer neighborhood, Sam is bullied at his new school and falls into a troubling depression. A black custodian at Sam's new school named Greely befriends the white youngster, and the book centers on their relationship. The students who read the book wrote essays and drew posters as part of a contest, and the winers got to meet author Jonathon Fuqua in person. I was curious as to what line author Jonathon Scott Fuqua fit into? I looked into him a little more since Peoria is only about 100 miles from me & found that he was born in Germany & now lives in Baltimore, MD., but that he had moved 11 times by age 14, once living in Virginia. (http://www.peoriareads.org/author.html). Here are some other sites for him: http://www.jonathonscottfuqua.com/about_jonathon/ http://www.bancroftpress.com/media_webber2.html If anyone can claim this family member, please let me know which line it is. Thanks, Jan