2009 Alex Award Winner!
It's always a pleasure to read a darn good book, and this one made my Christmas vacation. It's a quiet read about growing up in southern Indiana and things hit awfully close to home here in Illinois. It's 1979 and Andy and Tom are best friends, running around with their new guns and shooting everything that moves. But the local casket company in Borden goes on strike. Andy's dad is management and Tom's dad is in the union. The two sides of the town clash and the plant manager ends up dead in a factory explosion.
I really thought about Stand By Me and Goonies and all sorts of other great movies involving country boys and friendship. This is one heck of a coming-of-age story.
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