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Ethan De Wilde was kidnapped from right in front of his house when he was just 7 years old. \u00a0Merely typing that sentence made my blood run cold because my own little boy just turned 7, and I cannot imagine the heartache and the despair that a family would go through in such an event.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it\u2019s not\u00a0uncommon to hear about stories like this in the news.\u00a0 This particular story, though, seems to have a happy ending.\u00a0\u00a0After all, the book opens with 16-year-old Ethan and a CPS worker waiting for his family at an Amtrak station.\u00a0 After being abandoned by the woman who raised him, living in a group home for a while, and then running away and living on the streets, Ethan is finally heading home.\u00a0 But what seems like a fairy tale ending at first glance is actually very complicated.<\/p>\n
Ethan can\u2019t seem to recall anything from his early childhood and feels extremely out of place.\u00a0 He wishes he could remember something \u2014 anything! \u2014 but he just can\u2019t.\u00a0 Mama and Dad accept that it will take some time to adjust to their new situation, but that is little comfort.\u00a0 Gracie, who was born a couple of years after the abduction, accepts Ethan almost immediately.\u00a0 Even though she had been sheltered from the truth, she is ready and willing to open her heart to the long-lost brother she never knew. \u00a0His brother Blake, on the other hand, remembers all too well what it felt like when Ethan disappeared.\u00a0 Blake is angry because he feels that his brother should have known better than to get into a car with strangers in the first place, and he resents the fact that Ethan\u2019s disappearance and reappearance have over-shadowed nearly his entire life.\u00a0 It makes sense that Blake would react by lashing out in anger, but his behavior was still a bit shocking at times.<\/p>\n
This is definitely a book I would recommend for reluctant readers.\u00a0 Between the interesting premise and the short chapters, I absolutely flew through this book!\u00a0 I wish I could say more about what kept me turning pages, but I don\u2019t want to spoil the story for anyone\u2026\u00a0 Just know that there is something BIG and keep reading until you find it.\u00a0 Trust me \u2014 you\u2019ll know when you get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ethan De Wilde was kidnapped from right in front of his house when he was just 7 years old. \u00a0Merely typing that sentence made my blood run cold because my own little boy just turned 7, and I cannot imagine the heartache and the despair that a family would go through in such an event.\u00a0 … Continue reading Dead to You by Lisa McMann<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}