FREE: Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card (Used Paperback)

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This book is a bit hard to classify into a genre. There are elements here of thriller, the otherworldly as well as serving as a surprisingly intimate portrait of a young, Mormon family. The Fletchers move from Indiana to a rural, North Carolina town in 1983 and what ensues is a realistic view into their lives in the ensuing year as they adjust to their new cultural climate. North Carolinians may not be too appreciative of this view into their small towns - here high school students drive the K-12 buses (surely that is illegal!), teachers bully children more than anyone else, and scheduled parent-teacher conferences are not mandatory.

For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, eight-year-old Stevie's life there is an unending parade of misery and disaster.Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further into himself -- and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary friends.But there is something eerie about his loyal, invisible new playmates: each shares the name of a child who has recently vanished from the sleepy Southern town. And terror grows for Step and DeAnne as the truth slowly unfolds. For their son has found something savagely evil ... and it's coming for Stevie next.