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Book Review of Summer of Night (Summer of Night, Bk 1)

Summer of Night (Summer of Night, Bk 1)
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Its the summer of 1960. The sixth-grade boys of Elm Haven, IL, are forging the powerful magical bonds that a lifetime of growth and loss will never erase. Amid the sun-drenched cornfields and the sly flirtations of the town's young girls, that loyalty will be pitilessly tested. From the silent depths of the old Central School, a hulking fortress tinged with the mahogany scent of coffins, an invisable evil drifts outward-plunging Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen and Kevin into a war without boundary or mercy, where an eternal enemy owns the night...