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Gr 5-8 Mike, 12, describes what her life on Cape Cod has been like since her older brother disappeared while swimming in the ocean three months earlier. She still sees Red leaning against the shed and in her dreams. She isolates herself from others who are also grieving, especially Red's best friend, Mark, and his girlfriend, Mona, who were there with her when he drowned. In the fall, Mike begins interacting with her friends again and sees her brothe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"It's Red who I think of every time I pick up a book, ride my bicycle, or hear some-one laugh....we were always us." But Michaela's brother Red "disappeared from us" three months ago, and "Mike" and Red's other close friends, Mona and Mark, are adrift. Mona has given up gymnastics, at which she excels, and drives her car too fast, while Mark—a nice, self-sufficient boy whose mother is dead, his dad mostly absent—drives his car, unaccountably, into a storefront. Mike herself, three years younger, focuses so intently on the b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More