This book has been described as a cross between Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" and Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" These stories follow the life of a boy named Roland McCray growing up during the massive social changes of the 1960's in a southern town that's immersed in Civil War history. Roland enjoys the things that all children do- rides his bike, flies kites, plays in the fields and woods, and catches frogs and salamanders in the creek behind his house... But Roland notices that the world he sees around him and the things adults do don't match what he'd been told in school and church. He...