Lost boy found / Kirsten Alexander.
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TextPublisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020Edition: First Grand Central trade paperback editionDescription: x, 350 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781538700563; 1538700565Uniform titles: Half-Moon Lake Subject(s): Missing children -- Fiction | Mistaken identity -- Fiction | Kidnapping -- Fiction | Tramps -- Fiction | Unmarried mothers -- Fiction | Parent and child -- Fiction | Custody of children -- Fiction | Custody of children | Kidnapping | Missing children | Mistaken identity | Parent and child | Tramps | Unmarried mothers | Missing children -- Fiction | Identity -- Fiction | Kidnapping -- Fiction | Tramps -- Fiction | Unmarried mothers -- Fiction | Parent-child relationship -- Fiction | Child custody -- Fiction | Louisiana -- Fiction | Louisiana | Louisiana -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Historical fiction. | Novels. | Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Fiction. DDC classification: 823/.92 LOC classification: PR9619.4.A4424 | H35 2020Summary: "In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not to give in to despair. Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found in the company of a tramp. But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. And when Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports' own friends, take sides. As the tramp's kidnapping trial begins, and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they'd ever dreamed"-- Provided by publisher.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | ALEX (Browse shelf) | Available | 38984 |
Includes Reading Group Guide (pages 341-350).
"Originally published as a Bantam trade paperback entitled Half-Moon Lake in 2019"--Title page verso.
"In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not to give in to despair. Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found in the company of a tramp. But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. And when Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports' own friends, take sides. As the tramp's kidnapping trial begins, and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they'd ever dreamed"-- Provided by publisher.
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