JACKSON – Jo Watson Hackl, author of the young-adult novel Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, signs copies of her book at Lemuria Bookstore on Thursday, July 12. Hackl is Catholic and has family in the Jackson area who are donating a copy of the book for each sixth-grader in the Catholic Schools of the diocese. The book follows the adventures of 12-year-old Cricket, who has run away to the woods to look for her mother. (Photo by Rusty Harris.)