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McCandless tackles racism, peer pressure, and other various growing pains of a teenage boy in 1970's Texas. Some readers may be turned off by the fact this book is short, but I assure you it does nothing to hinder the story. McCandless makes a deep impact in 100 pages. She was aware of hateful and racist events like those occurring ear This book was an excellent slice of Americana. I am well aware of recent American history, but can identify with the Millennial mentioned at the end of the story.

This book was an excellent slice of Americana. I recommend this book and don't think you will be disappointed if you choose to read it.

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I liked the way Bruce McCandless brought this story full circle. Something in everyone's life can influence future decisions and values.

Racial tensions build over the course of the story and impact Tommy, Jack, Todd and Alyssha. As Tommy meets Alyssha secretly, he discovered that Jack and Alyssha have known each other their whole lives. Tommy and Alyssha formed a friendship but Tommy, being fourteen developed a crush on Alyssha. She had come into the infirmary to bring the patients food. It was there that he met Alyssha Sills, a beautiful young black girl working in the kitchen with her aunt. That is how he found himself in the camp infirmary. In front of all his team, not only was he defeated but he vomited all over himself. It was Tommy's misfortune to be chosen to be the one on the Creeks to have to box the Comanches' team member, Buggy Robicheaux. Shortly after Tommy's arrival at Camp Alex, the boys were divided into two teams, the Creeks and the Comanches. Todd was troubled and did not always make good choices. Jack's older brother, Todd, also worked at camp Alex, as everyone called it, as a cabin counselor. Tommy experimented with drinking beer with his new friend Jack Connelly, as many boys this age did. Fourteen is a very impressionable age and Bruce McCandless does and excellent job incorporating this into the story. It is Tommy's first summer at this camp and he has arrived knowing no one. The reader meets Tommy Lothrup, a fourteen year old boy on his way to Camp Alexandra, an all boys camp. The story takes place in 1974 at a summer sleep away camp in Texas. It was a fast read and I enjoyed reading it very much. Although this was a very short book, I thought the author made several important points.

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It is Tommy's first summer at this camp and he has arrived knowing no I received a free copy of Color War by Bruce McCandless in a goodreads give away in exchange for an honest review. I received a free copy of Color War by Bruce McCandless in a goodreads give away in exchange for an honest review. The story is 25,000 words long, and similar in theme and tone to Stephen King’s 'The Body.'. Color War is a coming-of-age story, painted in the hues of confusion and longing that color any adolescent’s existence, and quite possibly familiar to anyone who remembers the era of ESP, Evel Knievel, and the works of Erich von Daniken. It turns out that Buggy Robicheaux really can punch, the King of Camaros rules the woods around Atcheson, and the shackles of racial prejudice can divide brother from brother. In fact, what he's about to find at a dilapidated summer camp in East Texas will turn his whole world upside down. Color War is a coming-o It's 1974, and 14-year-old Tommy Lothrup has a lot to learn. It's 1974, and 14-year-old Tommy Lothrup has a lot to learn.