Kings and Sages
L. S. Beck, S. Beck
On a hot summer day in Arkansas in 1953, ten-year-old Annie Marcus is intent on nothing else but scraping a tick off her skin when she receives the scare of her life. Suddenly, she is looking into the eyes of Be More Happy, an old hermit that lives deep in the woods.Frightening stories have circulated among Annie's ten friends for a long time about the hermit with long white hair who supposedly has no tongue, but when Annie notices his eyes ar...
