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    Fiddleheads
    Fiddleheads
    Fiddleheads
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    Fiddleheads

    By Douglas Smith

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    Twelve-year-old Andy Pembleton's younger brother disappeared two years ago. The loss tore Andy's world apart. His father left. His mother withdrew into guilt, all but ignoring Andy.

     

    But Andy is going to change all of that. He has a plan to find his brother—a deeply disturbing one.

     

    " …every parent's worst nightmare. This was a gripping tale and goes to show that not only parents suffer when a child goes missing and how it can warp a child." —Bitten By Books

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDouglas Smith
    Release dateOct 18, 2016
    ISBN9781928048213
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    Douglas Smith

    Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of Rasputin and Former People, which was a bestseller in the U.K. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic, and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He lives with his family in Seattle.

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      Fiddleheads - Douglas Smith

      Fiddleheads

      by Douglas Smith

      Twelve-year-old Andy Pembleton’s younger brother disappeared two years ago. The loss tore Andy’s world apart. His father left. His mother withdrew into guilt, all but ignoring Andy.

      But Andy is going to change all of that. He has a plan to find his brother—a deeply disturbing one.

      ~~

      …about every parent’s worst nightmare. This was a gripping tale and goes to show that not only parents suffer when a child goes missing and how it can warp a child.

      —Bitten By Books

      Table of Contents

      DESCRIPTION

      FIDDLEHEADS

      ABOUT THE STORY

      A REQUEST

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ALSO BY DOUGLAS SMITH

      THE HOLLOW BOYS

      THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE WORLD

      CHIMERASCOPE

      COPYRIGHT

      FIDDLEHEADS

      THE FIDDLEHEADS WERE

      back.

      Andy Pembleton saw the ferns as he walked in the wooded ravine behind the house where he lived with his Mom. It was the same day that he had his idea.

      His idea to find his little brother.

      Nothing had been growing in the ravine yesterday. But now the ferns had already pushed their curled heads two inches above the forest floor, peeking bright green through the gray corpses of last fall’s dead leaves.

      Andy stared at the patch of new life at his feet. The fiddleheads always meant spring was finally back. But they also meant the anniversary of losing his little brother.

      Ever since Martin had

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