Plus, Dark Harvest is a common name whereas The October Boy is not. I don’t know what possessed Partridge to name this book Dark Harvest, when while I was reading it I definitely thought of it as The October Boy. The style of a whispered urban legend or a campfire ghost story. The narration style is decidedly written that style. I kept finding myself wishing I was huddled up around a campfire reading it out loud to my friends. This short book reads like a campfire story. Pete is determined to win this year, but not everything about the Run is as it at first appears. Whatever teenage boy stops him is the winner and is allowed past the Line to escape from town. The October Boy, a living, breathing scarecrow stuffed with candy and topped by a jack-o-lantern head, will try to make it to the church by midnight. Every year the people of the town lock their boys aged sixteen to nineteen in their bedrooms for five days without food then let them loose on the night of Halloween for the Run.
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