On Air

Soon to be sixteen-year-old Neil Robinson is facing some big challenges as his Sophomore year of high school comes to an end. There is an opening for a radio announcer at WHJ radio station in Harper's Junction. Neil has his heart set on taking the job. But his grades are slipping, and a family tragedy puts Neil's hopes on hold. Will he ever take flight "On Air?"

Soon to be sixteen-year-old Neil Robinson is facing some big challenges as his Sophomore year of high school comes to an end. There is an opening for a radio announcer at WHJ radio station in Harper's Junction. Neil has his heart set on taking the job. But his grades are slipping, and a family tragedy puts Neil's hopes on hold. Will he ever take flight "On Air?" Join the kids in Harper's Junction as they make plans for the summer of 1972. Richard Nixon runs for President, the Vietnam War stumbles to a close, and a young kid tries to fulfill his radio dreams.

Henry Fennell grew up in a county-seat fifty miles north of Memphis, Tennessee, in the upper reaches of the Mississippi Delta. He began writing for the radio listener at age fifteen in his home town and continued writing and voicing for radio for over forty years. "On Air" is Fennell's second novel, following "Blind Hill," a young-adult novel set in the summer of 1968, was published in 2017. "On Air" picks up the story to the summer of 1972, and along with characters from his first book, introduces a new narrator.