Pumpkin Heads

“People all sort of look the same to me until I talk to them. That’s when they start to get interesting. That’s when they shimmer”

– Deja (Pumpkin Heads)

Josiah (Josie), the most valuable pumpkin patch person is going away for college. It’s Halloween at the pumpkin patch and he’s the person who’s sulking around because it is his last one. Deja is determined to make this halloween special for him by coercing him to talk to a certain Fudge Shoppe Girl because ‘friends don’t allow friends lead small lives’. While Deja eager to turn cupid, a chance encounter with her ex sweeps her off the feet. Meanwhile, Josie is in pursuit of Marcy going from one location to location (Pie Palace to Fudge Shoppe to S’more Pit to Kettle Korn to Hayrack ride) While he wonders how Deja has dated half the people of pumpkin patch, she meanwhile swears vengeance as her another mission when a kid snatches her caramel apple and runs away with it.

The entire sequence of events take place in the pumpkin patch and the areas surrounding it. Deja was all about wit and sass. That night, all she wanted was to get ‘some snacks’ and set Josiah with a ‘dumb girl’. Josie was someone who was passionate about running things smoothly in the patch. Contrary to the main theme love, this book is about friendship and how friends go the distance (quite literally in this case) to make things work.

Amidst halloween treats and trouble making kids, ‘Pumpkin Heads’ is a heart-warming read.