The Cemetery Boys
Heather Brewer
Fiction B758c
When Stephen is forced to
move back to the nowhere town where his father grew up, he’s already
sure he’s not going to like it. Spencer, Michigan, is like a town
straight out of a Hitchcock movie, with old-fashioned people who see
things only in black-and-white. But things start looking up when Stephen
meets the mysterious twins Cara and Devon. They’re total punks–hardly
the kind of people Stephen’s dad wants him hanging out with–but they’re a
breath of fresh air in this backward town. The only problem is, Cara
and Devon don’t always get along, and as Stephen forms a friendship with
the charismatic Devon and something more with the troubled Cara, he
starts to feel like he’s getting caught in the middle of a conflict he
doesn’t fully understand. And as Devon’s group of friends, who hang out
in a cemetery they call The Playground, get up to increasingly reckless
activities to pass the summer days, Stephen worries he may be in over
his head.
Stephen’s fears prove well-founded when he learns of
Spencer’s dark past. It seems the poor factory town has a history of
“bad times,” and many of the town’s oldest residents attribute the bad
times to creatures right out of an urban legend. The legend goes that
the only way the town will prosper again is if someone makes a sacrifice
to these nightmarish creatures. And while Stephen isn’t one to believe
in old stories, it seems Devon and his gang might put a lot of faith in
them. Maybe even enough to kill for them.
Now, Stephen has to decide what he believes, where his allegiances lie, and who will really be his friend in the end.
(from publisher)
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