There are just some books that leave me so pissed off I can't speak. Now, Stephen has to decide what he believes, where his allegiances lie, and who will really be his friend in the end. And while Stephen isn’t one to believe in old stories, it seems Devon and his gang might put a lot of faith in them. The legend goes that the only way the town will prosper again is if someone makes a sacrifice to these nightmarish creatures. It seems the poor factory town has a history of “bad times,” and many of the town’s oldest residents attribute the bad times to creatures right out of an urban legend. Stephen’s fears prove well-founded when he learns of Spencer’s dark past. And as Devon’s group of friends, who hang out in a cemetery they call The Playground, get up to increasingly reckless activities to pass the summer days, Stephen worries he may be in over his head. The only problem is, Cara and Devon don’t always get along, and as Stephen forms a friendship with the charismatic Devon and something more with the troubled Cara, he starts to feel like he’s getting caught in the middle of a conflict he doesn’t fully understand. They’re total punks–hardly the kind of people Stephen’s dad wants him hanging out with–but they’re a breath of fresh air in this backward town. But things start looking up when Stephen meets the mysterious twins Cara and Devon. Spencer, Michigan, is like a town straight out of a Hitchcock movie, with old-fashioned people who see things only in black-and-white. When Stephen is forced to move back to the nowhere town where his father grew up, he’s already sure he’s not going to like it.

The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer