Looking for Red

For Ages: 12 and up

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Twelve-year-old Mike -- short for Michaela -- loves the ocean. The sights, sounds, and smells of her coastal home are embedded in her very soul.
But Michaela loves her brother, Red, even more.
Then one day Red disappears. One minute he's there, the next...gone. No warning. No time to prepare. And Mike must come to terms with that loss or risk never finding comfort in what remains of the life she and her brother once shared.

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Simon Pulse |
128 pages |
ISBN 9780689863882 |
November 2003 |
Grades 7 and up

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Praise

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“Booklist Johnson's latest novel -- part mystery, part ghost story, and part coming-of-age narrative”

– is chilling and heartbreaking....In beautiful prose, the narrative moves fluidly from flashbacks to the present, and the stages of grief are represented in startling but realistic ways.

“Publishers Weekly Those mourning a loss are likely to find Mike's incisive observations familiar and comforting. ”

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Chapter 9

The first time I knew my brother, Red, was still around was the day Frank and Cassie broke down outside Boston with two flat tires. It's only now that I think that it was all Red's doing. He needed time to let me know that he is...Just us again.

Two flat tires. One after the other, and me at home waiting for them.

People see missing persons all the time and don't know that they are. They sit beside them at movies and shop beside them in stores and pass them on the street. You don't know these people, so how could you recognize that someone, somewhere, is missing them?

So I'm telling...