In 1953, the memories of the war were fading but not gone. The kids that stuck together like glue through the shadows of the war, are now coming of age, growing like weeds with a summer vacation starting before they become Freshman in high school. They're dealing with growing pains of the body and mind - and they reconnect at the cemetery in the late spring just to catch up. Little did they know they (and you) were in for a year not soon forgotten. Truth be told this is pretty much how it all happened... this is how times were in the day. Book One - Summer Vacation - Book Two - A Halloween Caper - Book Three - a Thanksgiving to Christmas adventure proving that Black Lives Matter to the Pompey Hollow Book Club. "Raucous adventure abounds in Antil's (The Long Stem Is in the Lobby, 2013 etc.) heartfelt coming-of-age novel set in upstate New York during the 1950s. Fans of Antil's The Pompey Hollow Book Club (2011) will be eager to learn more about the misadventures of their favorite club members in this colorful follow-up novel. It's the summer before their freshman year of high school, a time when they begin to leave childhood behind but are nonetheless itching for adventure as much as ever. The story is told from the perspective of ghostly Ole Charlie, a kindly neighbor who has passed and is now the group's guardian angel. Fast-paced and action-packed, the novel follows young Jerry and his friends as they get their first jobs, rescue orphans and down-on-their-luck polio victims, and plan their biggest caper yet to catch a pair of criminals." KIRKUS REVIEWS Eight months after Jerome Mark Antil was born, he was sitting on his father's knee listening to the floor model Zenith radio when he heard President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tell the world that the Japanese had just bomb attacked America at Pearl Harbor. To this day, nearing 90, he can remember that moment as if it were yesterday...and he can also remember what life was like for children his age while nearly 90 million people were murdered before he reached the age of five. "Kids grew up fast in those days," Jerome said. "We had to."