The Pompey Hollow Book Club

Jerry and his friends follow the example of the heros and sacrifice they witnessed in the War. By the time they were ten, half their lives watched a world gone mad kill seventy million people. Well, they heard it on radio - and saw it at the Saturday Morning picture show newsreels. A cross between Tom Sawyer and Hardy Boys, with one important twist. The president of their club is a girl, Mary Crane. Marty could throw a ball farrthest and could spell. The book is a treat to the young reader as a first chapter book - to fans of nostalgia with historical memories of the simpler live in rural America in 1949 - 1950. Watch a city boy stumble through the new world of family farms, and first kisses - and mystery.