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Bloomsbury USA Childrens
On sale:
April 2010
Price:
$9.99
Format:
Paperback
Size:
5.5 x 8.25 in
Pages:
352 pp
Ages:
14
Grades:
9
ISBN-13: 9781599904542
ISBN-10: 1599904543
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The Year We Disappeared
A Father - Daughter Memoir
By Cylin Busby and John Busby
Book Description
Hot on the heels of great publicity, this shocking and compelling memoir is ripe for paperback
When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with Izod clothing, the Muppets, and a box turtle she kept in a shoebox. Then everything changed overnight. Her police officer father, John, was driving to his shift when someone leveled a shotgun at his window. The blasts that followed left John's jaw on the passenger seat of his car—literally. While clinging to life, he managed to write down the name of the only person he thought could have pulled the trigger. The suspect? A local ex-con with rumored mob connections. The motive? Officer Busby was scheduled to testify against the suspect's family in an upcoming trial. Overnight, the Busbys went from being the "family next door" to one under 24-hour armed guard, with police escorts to 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 few choices left to them, the Busby family went into hiding, severing all ties to the only life they had known.
★"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.” –SLJ
"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.”—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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