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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 8 Up—Cullen Witter, 17, lives in dull, dreary Lily, AR. He is desperate to escape his small town but is fearful that, like so many others, he'll never do so. His world is turned upside down by a flurry of activity and interest that the sighting of a supposedly extinct Lazarus woodpecker brings to his town, by the devastating and unexplained disappearance of his 15-year-old brother, and the death of his drug-addicted cousin. Simultaneously, Benton Sage, a young missionary, jumps to his...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
When Cullen Witter was seventeen, his younger brother disappeared from their rural Arkansas town. Meanwhile, the suicide of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
