Round the Bend April 2014 | Page 18

“I will” is a resounding mantra for youth of today. This is a great piece of literature that I humbly suggest is read by our children and their parents. Together they can and will change the world.

David Edelman MA, MBA, MFCC, President Board of Directors, Santa Barbara Boys and Girls Club.

"All adolescents and their parents together would do well to read and ponder the inspiration and lessons contained in these pages.”

Michael Weitzman MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, The New York University School of Medicine

“Although The Code sells itself as a self-help book for teens, it is a much richer mix than that. It’s part memoir, part surf rap, part homage. Above all, it’s a gut-punching journey of emotional resurrection. Shaun Tomson confronts the darkest kind of tragedy—the death of his own son—with grace, intelligence, and a historic kind of hopefulness. The lessons herein penetrate in unexpected ways.”

Steve Hawk, former editor Surfer Magazine