Where Things Come Back

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Synopsis

In the remarkable, bizarre, and heart-wrenching summer before Cullen Witter’s senior year of high school, he is forced to examine everything he thinks he understands about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town.

His cousin overdoses; his town becomes absurdly obsessed with the alleged reappearance of an extinct woodpecker; and most troubling of all, his sensitive, gifted fifteen-year-old brother, Gabriel, suddenly and inexplicably disappears.

Meanwhile, the crisis of faith spawned by a young missionary’s disillusion in Africa prompts a frantic search for meaning that has far-reaching consequences.

As distant as the two stories initially seem, they are woven together through masterful plotting and merge in a surprising and harrowing climax.

Winner of the Michael L. Printz award

Copyright:
2011

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
242 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781442413351
Related ISBNs:
9781442413344
Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
John Corey Whaley
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Children's Books, Romance, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Humor
Grade Levels:
Ninth grade
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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