What Was Lost (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780805088335)

A tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl--winner of the Costa First Novel Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and The Guardian First Book Award

In the 1980s, Kate Meaney--"Top Secret" notebook and toy monkey in tow--is hard at work as a junior detective. Busy trailing "suspects" and carefully observing everything around her at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping mall, she forms an unlikely friendship with Adrian, the son of a local shopkeeper. But when this curious, independent-spirited young girl disappears, Adrian falls under suspicion and is hounded out of his home by the press.

Then, in 2003, Adrian's sister Lisa--stuck in a dead-end relationship--is working as a manager at Your Music, a discount record store. Every day she tears her hair out at the outrageous behavior of her customers and colleagues. But along with a security guard, Kurt, she becomes entranced by the little girl glimpsed on the mall's surveillance cameras. As their after-hours friendship intensifies, Lisa and Kurt investigate how these sightings might be connected to the unsettling history of Green Oaks itself. Written with warmth and wit, What Was Lost is a haunting debut from an incredible new talent.

Author: Catherine O'Flynn
ISBN-10: 0805088334
ISBN-13: 9780805088335
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.7
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 129060 / What Was Lost

Award: Guardian First Book Award - Nominee
Award: Costa Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2008 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 03/17/2008 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2008 pg. 514
Library Journal 06/01/2008 pg. 93
School Library Journal 06/01/2008 pg. 172
Entertainment Weekly 06/20/2008 pg. 71
Romantic Times 07/01/2008 pg. 84 - Excellent
New York Times Book Review 07/13/2008 pg. 26
People Weekly 07/14/2008 pg. 47
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2008 pg. 62
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2008 pg. 45