Lost Boys: A Novel

by Orson Scott Card

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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.

Musher Reviews

• Khayree H. — 8th grade
• Team: Sullivan's Class
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• This was probably one of my favorite books i have ever read. The book started out as a family who was just moving to a new town. The oldest child was starting 2nd grade and he was afraid to start. Ever since he started the school he was always sad and alone and had no friends. Later the boy named stevie told his parents what was happening to him in school. His teacher always abused him ins chool and let the kids make fun of him because he couldnt understand their accent. She even told the otehr kids not to play with hima nd not to talk to him. Then Stevie started having imaginary friends and so his parent brought him to a councelor. And teh councelor wasnt helping Stevie at all so they pulled him out because they were tight on money. Stevie kept on getting more and more new imaginary friends. And during all this stuff there were lots of kids going missing. And later in the book the police let out a list of names of the boys who were going missing and every name matched the name of all of stevies imaginary friends. So Deanna and her husband Step called the police and told a detective about this and he thinks that something evil is with Stevie cause hes such a nice boy and he never lies and always listens to his parents. So later on Stevie gets his imaginary friends to tell who killed them and Stevie confronted the serial killer. Then Stevie finally figured out a way to show his friends but the only way he could have done it was if he was dead and the serial killer killed him. Stevie told his parents who was the serial killer and they got the person arrested. And thats all im going to tell you about this book

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