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By Rob Levandoski

There’s actual depression in Bennett’s Corners, Ohio. It’s 1934, and the good melancholy is dragging on. That’s to not say adolescents don’t have their huge burning pursuits, their uncontrollable urges. They do.
 
Will Randall’s dream is to visit the Chicago World’s reasonable, to work out the technological wonders of the trendy age and to arrange himself for the wonderful destiny guaranteed to erupt as soon as FDR will get a deal with on issues. Ace Gilbert had a distinct dream. He desires to discover a “willing urban girl”.
 
So, on a sizzling August day those very-best-of-friends set out for Chicago in Ace’s outdated version T, which has been reworked with wings and a propeller to appear just like the Spad SXIII his father flew within the nice warfare. this is often going to be the simplest week in their lives, whether Will’s little brother—and his ear-ache—have to come back along.
 
using around the Indiana cornfields, they’re abducted by way of a couple of penny sweet criminals, Gus Gillis and Gladys Batholomew, and therefore starts off an experience none of them had bargained for.
 
from time to time, Aces’s narrative is wickedly humorous, at different instances tearful. and infrequently, his bewilderment involves complete boil.
 
Going to Chicago is far greater than a interval romp around the American heartland. It’s a trip into friendship—a friendship larger than death.

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