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Do not become alarmed

When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop buffet and the independence they have at the Kids' Clu...

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Main Author: Meloy, Maile (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
Subjects:
Families > Fiction.
Family vacations > Fiction.
Missing children > Fiction.
Ocean travel > Fiction.
Parent and child > Fiction.
Vacations > Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
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Summary: When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop buffet and the independence they have at the Kids' Club. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor misfortunes leads the families farther and farther from the ship's safety. One minute the children are there, and the next they're gone.
Physical Description: 342 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780735216525
0735216525
Author Notes: Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter , the short-story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by The New York Times Book Review ), and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was shortlisted for the UK's Orange Prize and chosen as one of Granta 's Best Young American Novelists.

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