The Year Without Michael

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Bantam Books, 1987 - Juvenile Fiction - 164 pages

Somewhere between home and the softball field, 16-year-old Jody's brother Michael has disappeared, and Jody watches in horror as her world falls apart. Jody's urgent need to find her brother and keep her family together leads to her own kind of discovery.

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A very tough emotionally laden book about the disappearance of a child from a family, emphasizing problems that were already there within the family. I listened to the audio version and truly felt the ...

Contents

• Section 1: 29
• Section 2: 37
• Section 3: 45

About the author

Susan Beth Pfeffer was born in New York City in 1948, and grew up in the city and its nearby suburbs. At the age of six, when her father wrote and published a book, Pfeffer decided she, too, wanted to be a writer; that year, she wrote her first story. She didn't write her first published book, until much later. Just Morgan, a young adult novel, was written during her final semester at New York University, and published the following year. Since then, Pfeffer has been a full-time writer for young people. She has won numerous awards and citations for her work, which ranges from picture books to middle-grade and young-adult novels and includes both contemporary and historical fiction. Her young adult novel About David was awarded the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award. Her young adult novel The Year Without Michael, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and winner of the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award, was named by the American Library Association as one of the hundred best books for teenagers written between 1968-1993. Pfeffer has also written a book for adults on writing for children. She has written over 60 books for children and young adults.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Year Without Michael; Bantam Starfire book
• Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Edition: 2, reissue
• Publisher: Bantam Books, 1987
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 2, 2009
• ISBN: 0553054309, 9780553054309
• Length: 164 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Runaways