Place Last Seen

By: Charlotte Mcguinn Freeman

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Synopsis: DURING AN IDYLLIC AUTUMN-DAY hike in the Desolation Wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas, the Baker family is hurled into a nightmare. Playing hide-and-seek with her older brother, Luke, six-year-old Maggie runs away-and she cannot be found. Her father, Richard, and mother, Anne, search desperately before racing down the mountain to call in a Search and Rescue team. The team arrives with experienced trackers, volunteers, dogs, and topographic maps and begins a thorough search from the place where Maggie was last seen. But the search is complicated by an unpredictable factor: willful and energetic, Maggie Baker is also a Down Syndrome child, and there is no telling how she will move as she wanders in the wilderness. Richard, Anne, and Luke can only wait and hope that she will leave a clue, a trail that will lead them to her. With great empathy, Charlotte McGuinn Freeman conveys the gripping reality of the search and how this tests the bonds of a family as it grapples with guilt, doubt, fear, and frantic hope. Powerful, suspenseful, and deeply affecting, Place Last Seen marks the debut of a gifted new voice.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 294 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780312242275
Publisher:: N/A
Date of Addition:: 10/31/08
Copyrighted By:: Charlotte McGuinn Freeman
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Parenting and Family
Submitted By:: Mayrie ReNae
Proofread By:: Lissi
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.