Selected as one of two best novels for the year 5 Star Review. Author of this series is being compared to Mark Twain. Its a coming of age story beginning with a summer vacation, climaxing on a full moonlit Halloween night. Theyre teens now and their club president, Mary Crane, decides to follow her teachers suggestion of getting a Pen Pal for the summer. She writes to a boy her mother had read about in the newspaper a Pennsylvania lad. He writes back. As the summer unfolds one of the teens is witness to a crime in progress. Innocently the young Pen Pal to the clubs president unwittingly helps them not only solve the mystery of just who the crooks are but they also solve what turns out to be an unresolved military mystery dating back to the War and still lingering in the shadows of the DDay invasion. Was it coincidence that Marys Pen Pal just happens to be a grandson of the president of the United States? Its more than a Halloween story, its a history book. It might be to todays chronicles of the past what Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was in 1884. With a backdrop of rural life and times as they were in 1953 this novel reawakens our faded memory and colorfully illustrates two vanishing landmarks, both epics of an American culture and world history. The family farm for one and sad as it may be, the fleeting memories of the pivotal DDay Invasion under Supreme Commander General Dwight David Eisenhower the other. Without either we could have lost the War. This novel brings...

Binding: Paperback;302 pages; Publisher: Little York Books; Classification: N/A; Weight: 566.79 g; Dimensions: N/A

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