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Bloomsbury USA Childrens
On sale:
September 2008
Price:
$17.99
Format:
Hardcover
Size:
5.5 x 8.25 in
Pages:
352 pp
Ages:
14
Grades:
9
ISBN-13: 9781599901411
ISBN-10: 1599901412
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The Year We Disappeared
A Father - Daughter Memoir
By Cylin Busby and John Busby
Book Description
The extraordinary true story of a family, a brutal shooting, and the year that would change their lives forever.
When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she loved Izod shirts, the Muppets, and her pet box turtle. Then, in the space of a night, everything that was normal about her life changed. Her police officer father, John, was driving to his midnight shift when someone pulled up alongside and leveled a shotgun at his window. The blasts that followed tore through his face and left him clinging to life. Overnight, the Busbys went from being the "family next door" to one under twenty-four-hour armed guard, with police escorts to and from school and no contact with friends. Worse, the shooter was still on the loose, and it seemed only a matter of time before he'd come after John-or someone else in the family-again. With their lives unraveling around them and few choices remaining for a future that could ever be secure, the Busby family left everything and everyone they had ever known…and simply disappeared.
As told by both father and daughter, this is a harrowing, at times heartbreaking, account of a shooting and its aftermath-even as it shows a young girl trying to make sense of the unthinkable and the triumph of a family's bravery in the face of crisis.
★"No one with even a marginal interest in true crime writing should miss this page-turner, by turns shocking and almost unbearably sad. Where John's chapters provide the grim facts, it is Cylin's authentically childlike perspective that, in revealing the cost to her innocence, renders the tragic experience most searingly." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
"This true-crime story manages to be suspenseful and reflective at the same time, and it will draw both leisure and reluctant readers." ―VOYA
"[A] gripping story."--VOYA, teen reviewer
“A fascinating tale, making the costs of violence unequivocally clear. …” –Chicago Sun Times
“[A] page-turner pace…ultimately, this is a story of survival and triumph.” –School Library Journal
"A drama that can suck readers in. Those who enjoyed Woodson's Hush may wish to pursue this real-life counterpart." --BCCB
“Both father and daughter have riveting stories to tell in this gritty memoir.”—The Horn Book
“A remarkable book. … Together, father and daughter weave a startling, heartbreaking tale.” –Barnstable Patriot
“A fascinating true story for young readers 10 and up, "The Year We Disappeared" makes for a spellbinding reading.” –Copley News Service
“Riveting.” –Des Moines Register
“The Year We Disappeared is an intriguingly tense memoir. I find it very appealing. …This is definitely one of the most captivating books I have ever read. Page turning and intense.” –Flamingnet.com, 12-year-old girl, Osseo, WI
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