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They Never Came Home

by Lois Duncan · 1968 · 192 pages

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When two teenage boys vanish on a camping trip, a stranger claims that one owes him two thousand dollars. The boy's sister volunteers to repay the money while continually looking for clues that he is alive.

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Genre
mysteryhorrorthrillerfantasycrime
Themes
childhood
Audience
young adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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