They Never Came Back
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Publication Year
2010
ISBN
9780385738088
Pages
200 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occured five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
660L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Foster care; foster teenager; foster parents
Main Character
female child; female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
foster mother and father
Keywords
abandoned children; embezzlement; identity; fugitives from justice; criminals; summer school; cousins; FBI
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Cooney, Caroline B., "They Never Came Back" (2010). Diverse Families. 546.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/546