![]() ![]() This adds a level of depth and nuance that an older audience may appreciate, but will likely be lost on most middle grade or teen readers. However, not all of the crew’s capers deal with the supernatural, evidenced when they dig up Jake’s father’s old Playboy magazines or set off fireworks into a would-be predator’s face in a junkyard. In addition to chronicling history, present-day adult Jake often takes the first-person narration out of the past, giving play-by-plays of his work as a brain surgeon or injecting after-the-fact knowledge and insight. Back then, Jake befriended the new kids in town, Billy and Dove Yellowbird, and-with his erratic, conspiracy-theory-and-urban-legend-believing Uncle C-embarks on a series of adolescent hijinx including hunting ghosts and contacting the dead. ![]() An adult recounts the summer of his 12th year in 1980s Niagara Falls, Canada. ![]()
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