"Joyland" by Stephen King

       "Joyland" by Stephen King is probably one of my favorite

books by him.  The book is about a boy named Devin who 

 decides to work at a carnival to make money before he starts off 

to college. While he is there the other kids he works with tell him

about how one of the rides is haunted by a girl that was killed 

inside the ride. They were always trying to go in there and see 

the ghost. He also meets a young woman who is alone and stuck 

because she has a sick boy. Devin and the boy become friends 

after he sees him every day while walking out by the beach to 

 go to work. Its kind of ghost story but I also love that it's an 

amazing coming of age story about a young man who is broke 

 and has a broken heart so he decides to go away to work. There  

are so many different types of characters in this book and I love 

that there is a sweet older lady that lets the kids working at the 

 carnival stay at her house. It is not the normal Stephen King 

 book because it is under 300 pages so its an easy read and every 

line of it keeps you interested.  I would recommend this book 

over many of his other ones. The character development is

amazing.