Essential Maps for the Lost (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481415163)

From Printz Honor medal winner and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti comes a fresh and luminous novel "about love and loss, mental illness, and taking charge of one's own fate" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

There are many ways to be lost.

Sometimes people want to be lost. Madison--Mads to everyone who knows her--is trying her best to escape herself during one last summer away from a mother who needs more from her than she can give, and from a future that has been decided by everyone but her.

Sometimes the lost do the unimaginable, like the woman--the body--Mads collides with in the middle of the water on a traumatic morning that changes everything. And sometimes the lost are the ones left behind, like the son of the woman in the water, Billy Youngwolf Floyd.

Billy is struggling to find his way through each day in the shadow of grief. His one comfort is the map he carries in his pocket, out of his favorite book The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When three lives (and one special, shared book) collide, strange things happen. Things like questions and coincidences and secrets, lots of secrets. Things like falling in love. But can two lost people telling so many lies find their way through tragedy to each other...and to solid ground?

Author: Deb Caletti
ISBN-10: 1481415166
ISBN-13: 9781481415163
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2016
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 188814 / Essential Maps for the Lost


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/11/2016
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2016
School Library Journal 02/01/2016 pg. 98
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2016
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2016 pg. 86
Booklist 03/01/2016 pg. 75
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2016 - Recommended - Better Than Most
BookPage 04/01/2016