for: Middle grades
308 pages
Really good read (4)
First line/s: Most people end their lives in a graveyard. Sometimes I think my life began there."
Setting: Contemporary Iowas City, Iowas, on a dead end street beside Oakland Cemetery.
Linc attends public school - 8th grade - for the first time, and attacks making friends with a sense of humor and a knack for storytelling. And, what's really cool, is that some of the legends and history in the story are based on reality.
When Linc researches the history behind a huge black angel statue in the Oakland Cemetery, he also uncovers some hidden secrets from his own family's past. I love cemeteries, genealogy, research -- that's what this book is all about, but in a fun, funny, can't-put-it-down read. Each of the 38 chapters begins with a real epitaph from somewhere in America - including the location.
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