How Long Do We Have to Wait for a Sequel?

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	• Last Days of Summer Steve Kluger Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2000 - 353 pages average customer review:based on 146 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Pleasure

This book is about the family you're born into and the family make. I loved the characters - all of them. Steve Kluger did a wonderful job of creating people who felt like they lived and breathed through letters and telegrams. I will miss Joey Margolis and Charlie Banks. I certainly enjoyed my time with them.

How Long Do We Have to Wait for a Sequel?

This is truly one of the best books I have ever read - and I don't even know why I picked it up in the first place? I'm an avid reader and have spent a lot of my time and a lot of my money on books that I couldn't even finish - but this book I reread about every three months. It's a laugh out loud, cry out loud, smile out loud kind of book and it will enrich your life tremendously. My only question is Steve Kluger - how long do we have to wait for a sequel?

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A Truly Touching Story

Steve Kugler's novel "Last Days of Summer" is a heartwarming story. The book starts out by introducing Joey Margolis, a young Jewish boy growing up in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. In need of a hero, Joey writes a series of letters to Charles Banks, the third baseman for the New York Giants. Steve Kugler brilliantly develops their friendship by starting it off with Chas. basically saying, "Buzz off kid," and Joey persisting on them to be friends. The next thing you know, Joey is the batboy and on a road trip with Banks and the NY Giants. Up until now, Joey and Charlie's conversations have been through letters (like the whole novel is written in) and they have not had actual face to face communication. Kugler progresses the story by having Joey and Charlie both writing notes to Charlie's girlfriend Hazel. When Joey returns home, he finds out that he will not be able to have a Bar Mitzvah because his father is a deadbeat dad. Addressing the problem, Kugler makes you like Charlie more and more because not only does he agree to be the father-figure at the service, but he also helps Joey study for the event. Following the ceremony, Charlie and Joey continue to become better and better friends until World War II starts and Charlie has to go off and fight. Steve Kugler manages to throw some history in the book through newspaper reports and letters between Joey and President FDR. All in all, the story is a success although there is no narrative writing.

Personally, I think that this book was magnificent and very well done. I never thought that reading an entire book made up of scrapbook letters and documents could be any good; but I was wrong. I just could not seem to put this book down because I just wanted to see what would happen next in this boy's relationship with a loudmouth 3rd baseman. This is one of the best books I have read in a while.

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Touching and Wonderful Story

I absolutely loved this book, and began to read it again immediately after finishing it. I fell in love with the main character, as he reminded me of so many young, precocious children I have met. This book made me laugh and cry over and over again, and I think about it all the time. It offers incredible historical insight from the eyes of a brilliant child, and it is a tribute to the human condition. I recommend this book to anyone who has an open heart. This is a book to be cherished and passed around.

Read it for 5 minutes, Smile for an hour

Have you ever watched a theater showing a really well-made, beautiful movie empty at the end of the show? If not, watch and notice that no one speaks, they all simply smile broadly to themselves as they walk away thinking about the film. The Last Days of Summer, a touching coming of age story, simultaneously hilarious and heart-breaking, leaves the reader with the same warm and fuzzy feeling seen on the faces of those people. Read it for five minutes, then laugh as you find yourself smiling for the next hour.

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