Where things come back, a novel, by John Corey Whaley
Type
Label
Where things come back, a novel, by John Corey Whaley
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
960L, LexileYoung Adult
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 14 up
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Where things come back
Oclc number
646113120
Responsibility statement
by John Corey Whaley
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, UG, 5.7, 9.Reading Counts, High School, 7.5, 15.
Sub title
a novel
Summary
"Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance."--Title page verso"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. This extraordinary tale from a rare literary voice finds wonder in the ordinary and illuminates the hope of second chances."--Publisher's description
Target audience
juvenile
Contributor
Creator
Genre
Subject
- Domestic fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Novels
- Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 2011
- Arkansas -- Juvenile fiction
- Amis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Best friends -- Fiction
- Extinct birds -- Juvenile fiction
- Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Best friends -- Juvenile fiction
- Arkansas -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Amitié -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Michael L. Printz book award: Winner -- 2012
- Familles -- Arkansas -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Friendship stories
- Extinct birds -- Fiction
- William C. Morris Debut book award: Winner -- 2012
- Family life -- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Personnes disparues -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Oiseaux disparus -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Families -- Arkansas -- Juvenile fiction
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- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre7
- Subject27
- Domestic fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Novels
- Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 2011
- Arkansas -- Juvenile fiction
- Amis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Best friends -- Fiction
- Extinct birds -- Juvenile fiction
- Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Best friends -- Juvenile fiction
- Arkansas -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Amitié -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Michael L. Printz book award: Winner -- 2012
- Familles -- Arkansas -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Friendship stories
- Extinct birds -- Fiction
- William C. Morris Debut book award: Winner -- 2012
- Family life -- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Personnes disparues -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Oiseaux disparus -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Families -- Arkansas -- Juvenile fiction
- Content1
- Publisher1
- Mapped to1