Scouts & Scalawags Growing Up in the City of Saints - Dennis Ganahl

Boomer Magic! Reading Scouts ' Scalawags Growing Up in the City of Saints is like eating a slice of pumpkin pie topped with a dollop of Reddi-wip. It's comfort food for your soul.

If you love American Graffiti and Tom Sawyer, you'll love these books about growing up in 1963. Read about going to school during the fall when the Boy Scout Jamboree, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas make even school fun. Buy both books in the Growing Up in the City of Saints series today and give them as a gift to your parents and friends.

All of the happy feelings of snipe hunting, trick or treating, and his class's Christmas play can't get Mickey and his friends past the fact President Kennedy gets assassinated and Mickey's brother, Joey, gets gravely ill and hospitalized. Buy both books in the series today and you won't miss one story about Mickey and his friends growing up in the city of saints. These books make a great gift, buy them today.

These laugh out loud stories tell heart-warming tales about boys who are expected to act like saints. This humorous historical fiction helps you reminisce about a simpler time when love was given unconditionally and trust had to be earned. This book has the same cast of characters as Heroes ' Hooligans. The books describe the people, their clothes, the games they played, and the food they ate in vivid detail. You will keep guessing what happens next as you see yourself and your friends in this book.

Ganahl writes stories like Mark Twain, Jean Shepherd, Bill Bryson, Wally Lamb and Laura Ingalls-Wilder. You will enjoy this book as you learn about or remember what it was like being a kid in the 1960s.

Let's meet some of his memorable characters.

Mickey is the 10-year-old main character and narrator. He's at that awkward age. He's growing up in 1963 and wonders if Santa is real or make believe. He wants to believe in Santa but none of his friends do. His belief in God will be tested when President Kennedy is killed and his older brother and best friend, Joey, becomes gravely ill.

Mr. Hunter is Mickey's scoutmaster, and he looks like a Norman Rockwell character sitting around the campfire. He and Mr. Manhattan, the assistant scoutmaster enjoy taking the boys camping and teaching them to be prepared and self-reliant.

Miss Kann is the newest, youngest and prettiest teacher in school, and Mickey gets to be in her fifth-grade class. She organizes the class Christmas play which becomes bedlam when the first graders attend.