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Highlights
- "It was in Innsmouth where I met the greatest Scout I've ever known, a boy named Aubrey Marsh, and he's the reason I'm still here and the reason I still believe it's worth being human, even though he's not quite either of those things anymore.
- Author(s): Will Ludwigsen
- 158 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Fantasy
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"In the summer of 1963, Bud Castillo moves with his family from busy Queens, NY, to the bleak town of Innsmouth, MA, after a local oil consortium hires his father to help with a drilling platform off the coast. Bud meets a kindred spirit in the town library, Aubrey, the only other boy in town. Scouting is the cornerstone of Bud's life, and founding a troop in Innsmouth is the only way he can conceive of coping with what he is sure is a disastrous move. But the delights of that summer are ending, as Bud discovers that Reverend Pritchett of the Evangelical Progress Temple has plans to return Innsmouth to greatness and glory."--Book Synopsis
"It was in Innsmouth where I met the greatest Scout I've ever known, a boy named Aubrey Marsh, and he's the reason I'm still here and the reason I still believe it's worth being human, even though he's not quite either of those things anymore."
In the summer of 1963, Bud Castillo moves with his family from busy Queens, NY, to the bleak town of Innsmouth, MA, after a local oil consortium hires his father to help with a drilling platform off the coast. Bud meets a kindred spirit in the town library, Aubrey, the only other boy in town. Scouting is the cornerstone of Bud's life, and founding a troop in Innsmouth is the only way he can conceive of coping with what he is sure is a disastrous move.
But the delights of that summer are ending, as Bud discovers that Reverend Pritchett of the Evangelical Progress Temple has plans to return Innsmouth to greatness and glory.
Review Quotes
"Bradbury-esque whimsy and imagination, the melancholia of memoir, the spirit of weird pulp adventure." - Paul Tremblay, author of Horror Movie
"You don't have to have been a boy scout to love A Scout Is Brave as much as I did. It's a story about an odd friendship between two young boys that is at once funny, scary, innocent, and, above all, sweet in all the ways that make us smile. They share a splendid adventure in a haunted town that forces them to confront a secret Lovecraftian evil. Will Ludwigsen finds beauty and humor in the commonplace and courageously reaffirms the values our cynical age desperately needs." - James Patrick Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards
"With teen protagonists and equal attention paid to the narrator's coming-of-age and the eldritch horrors (possibly) lurking under the water, this perfectly polished gem of a novel is ideal for readers who love YA horror...as well as for adult fans of cosmic horror." - Booklist, starred review