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    The Beast and the Backpack
    The Beast and the Backpack
    The Beast and the Backpack
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    The Beast and the Backpack

    By James A. Johnson

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    In the small town of Sundown, there are hidden secrets just waiting to be found. And one day, friends Nick, Donnie, Ricky, Joey, Todd and Sean decide theyve been in the dark long enough.

    Acting on a dare, the friends decide to find out the basis for a story that has circulated throughout the town for generations: that there is a monster living at the top of McMurphys Mountain. Though the boys are not sure they believe in the legend, they are still a bit scared.

    Soon, the boys come upon an old shack, so they make camp for the night, taking shifts sleeping just in case the monster is lurking about. What they find in the shack is very unexpected and changes a camping trip into a strange adventure.

    Now, the boys wonder whether they should have ventured up the mountain. But they press forward with their journey, finding more secrets and the truth about the mountain they feared.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 23, 2009
    ISBN9781440153914
    The Beast and the Backpack
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    James A. Johnson

    James A. Johnson is a lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His work centers on the lifecourse of urbanism in the Eurasian steppe and Central Europe in the Bronze and Iron Ages. His particular focus is on how urban centers breakdown and how such events are mediated through reuse of the landscape and continued use of material traditions. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014, where his doctoral research centered on how pastoral communities disintegrated but during population dispersal began to use historical capital (pottery traditions) as a tool for social and political legitimation.

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