Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Book Review - The Leaving

📖Recommend for Grades 8 and up📖
by Tara Altebrando
After the first full day of Kindergarten, six children never came home. Now, eleven years later, five return with no memory of where they have been or the sixth child Max. Scarlet returns home, where her mother thinks aliens had abducted her. She seems to remember Lucas, who also seems to remember her. Lucas also returns to a life turned upside down. Then there is Max’s sister Avery. She can’t figure out why her brother hasn’t returned with the others and thinks they are hiding something.
Scarlet, Lucas, and Avery narrate this story with Scarlet and Lucas not exactly being reliable ones. However, wondering if they are lying or not is all part of the story. This book does have its flaws, but it is still a page-turner. Readers will be itching to figure out why the six had been taken, where they were, why they returned, where Max is, and why they don’t remember him. 
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*Please note that UPL does not currently own a physical copy of this book but you can request it from another library

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