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Looking for Red

Twelve-year-old Mike — short for Michaela — loves the ocean. The sights, sounds, and smells of her coastal home are embedded in her very soul.

But Michaela loves her brother, Red, even more.

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Then one day Red disappears. One minute he's there, the next...gone. No warning. No time to prepare. And Mike must come to terms with that loss or risk never finding comfort in what remains of the life she and her brother once shared.

Genre
literary fiction
Themes
african americandiversity
Setting
2000scape codmassachusetts
Audience
young adultchildrens
Length
short · 128 pages

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