The Lost
- ISBN-10
- 043589157X
- ISBN-13
- 9780435891572
- Series
- The Lost
- Category
- Adventure and adventurers
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-02-01
- Publisher
- Heinemann Secondary
- Author
- Alex Shearer
Description
A year, two years, three years pass and Joe still takes solitary bike rides into the countryside, one day meeting an attractive woman named Anna, who valiantly maintains her smallholding all alone. But Anna also lives with sadness, the death of her baby son, buried in the local churchyard. As their friendship grows, Joe finds an old, weathered, half-buried backpack, Jonah's backpack, on Anna's land. Now his life is in danger as he realizes that Anna has a terrible and terrifying secret. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
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