ONE YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD 1959. A Time of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Cold War, Chubby Checker, Elvis Presley, and Lee Fisher, a young man growing up in the wilds of rural Western Oregon. Join Lee as he navigates the often challenging and awkward period of adolescence. Throughout this eventful chapter of his childhood, Lee learns many valuable lessons in a series of endearing, touching, and often hilarious vignettes, spanning the final year of the 1950s. Written in a similar tradition as Spencer's Mountain, The Andy Griffith Show, and Leave it to Beaver, RURAL ROUTE, BOX 597 1959 is an entertaining and engaging novel, suitable for anyone ages eight to eighty!