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The Turtle Boy - Kealan Patrick Burke
The Turtle Boy
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Available for the first time on Amazon Kindle, Kealan Patrick Burke's Bram Stoker Award-winning coming of age story The Turtle Boy.School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic,... show more
Available for the first time on Amazon Kindle, Kealan Patrick Burke's Bram Stoker Award-winning coming of age story The Turtle Boy.School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery.But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting on the bank of Myers Pond, a pond playground rumor says may hide turtles the size of Buicks, everything changes.For it soon becomes apparent that dark secrets abound in the little community, secrets which come cupped in the hands of the dead, and in a heartbeat, Timmy and Pete's summer of wonder becomes a season of terror, betrayal and murder.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"..takes the small town setting of Delaware, Ohio, and imbues it with just enough wonder to evoke Bradbury and early King and even a dash of Mark Twain circa Tom Sawyer." - Chizine.com"If you have a young child, or remember when you were one yourself, The Turtle Boy is a book you don't want to miss." - The Midwest Book Review
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B0041T5BCI
Publisher: Elderlemon Press
Pages no: 79
Edition language: Abkhazian
Series: Timmy Quinn (#1)
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Soze Says
Soze Says rated it
3.0 The Turtle Boy review
A decent if largely predictable story that mixes ghosts, revenge and a coming of age tale, The Turtle Boy apparently kick-started Kealan Patrick Burke's career and for that I'm grateful. However it reads like an early novella in that it lacks much of the polish and incredible wordsmithing that Burke...
Figgy O'Connell
Figgy O'Connell rated it
0.0 The Turtle Boy
Free on Amazon, 23rd of Jan, 2016.
Just a book blog
Just a book blog rated it
4.0 The Turtle Boy
Summer has just begun and eleven-year-old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete are looking for something to do in their small, boring town of Delaware. They go down to Myers Pond where they discover an odd looking boy sitting on the bank. This is a really solid short story, and the first in the seri...
A Gandy Girl
A Gandy Girl rated it
4.0 The Turtle Boy
3.5 StarsSeptember 10th BR with my Burke Gore Gals Kat and Anasylvia.So yeah…I am a scattered mess of thoughts after that and as my fellow BRer noted…a cliffhanger to boot…which left me with nothing but more questions.So the good…-While this book really has very little of the “Gore” we girls are goi...
Rachel the Book Harlot
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1.5 The Turtle Boy by Kealan Patrick Burke
"School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery. But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting on the bank of Myers Pond a pond playground rumo...
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