The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson, 211 pagesJake is a bookish kid growing up in Niagara Falls in the 1980s. He doesn't have many friends (OK, any friends) and he's the constant target of bullies. But the summer of his 12th year, all that changes when Billy and Dove Yellowbird move to town and the Saturday Night Ghost Club is born. Led by Jake's kooky Uncle Calvin, the club meets at theoretically haunted places around town a few times over the summer, though the haunted locales have a bit more effect on Calvin than they do on the kids.
Set at the same time as the uber-popular TV show Stranger Things and with a similar outsider narrator, this short book is a great, though much more realistic, recommendation for fans of the show. I loved the nostalgic feel, and Davidson captures that fading-magic-of-childhood so well. A wonderful book.
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