Well liked by the reluctant middle school boy readers I know. ( )

The main characters of this book is Sam. He moves into a new house and in his new school he trys to fit in. I think that he shouldn't be friends with Cody and Javon when Mike his best friend, says its not safe. I just think that he wants to have more friends then before. ( )

Sam McLean, his mom, dad, and sister Miranda move back to Ringwood, the small Ontario town where Mr. McLean grew up. They move into a small community known as Sleepy Hollow. While driving to their new home, Sam and his dad enounter some juveniles ghost riding; which is where you send a vehicle, such as a bicycle, down a hill without a rider. The bike almost causes a car accident, and Sam snaps several pictures of it.
Sam is desperate to make new friends and he ends up spending time with Cody and Jason, two boys who are up to no good, AND the perpetrators of the ghost riding pranks.
When Sam emails the pictures, he discovers something extremely strange; the bike in the picture is NOT the bike he saw. Instead, the photo shows a very old fashioned bike. What is going on, and why is his dad acting so strangely? Is Sleepy Hollow haunted, and if it is, what does the creature want with Sam?
This was an okay read, but not as tightly constructed as I would have hoped. You don't ever find out why Sam was able to see the old bike, although you do find out what the old bike had to do with Sam's dad, and why HE sees it.
Read for the fiction review committee in Peel District School Board. ( )