num_pages: 253
description:  A short irresistible and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of Stranger Things and Stand by Me about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends.Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls--a seedy but magical slightly haunted place--Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turns twelve he befriends a pair of siblings new to town and so Calvin decides to initiate them all into the Saturday Night Ghost Club. But as the summer goes on what begins as a seemingly lighthearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined. With the alternating warmth and sadness of the best coming-of-age stories The Saturday Night Ghost Club examines the haunting mutability of memory and storytelling as well as the experiences that form the people we become.
language: English
title: The Saturday Night Ghost Club
publisher: Knopf Canada