Disappeared
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanw...
| Main Author: | Stork, Francisco X. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Disappeared ;
1. |
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| Summary: |
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape is to risk the dangerous trek across the desert to the United States border. |
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| Physical Description: |
326 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780545944472 0545944473 |
| Author Notes: |
Francisco X. Stork (he/him) emigrated from Mexico at the age of nine with his mother and his adoptive father. I Am Not Alone is his tenth novel. Other novels include: Marcelo in the Real World , recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award, The Last Summer of the Death Warriors , which received the Elizabeth Walden Award, The Memory of Light , recipient of the Tomás Rivera Award, Disappeared , which received the Young Adult Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and was a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book and Illegal , recipient of the In the Margins Award, the Young Adult Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and the International Latino Book Award. On the Hook published in 2021, received four starred reviews and was the recipient of the International Latino Book Award. |