"Without you, Kay-Kay, there's no sun, no warmth, no light. I will find you – my brother, my friend. I will find you and bring you back."
When Lena's beloved older brother goes missing at the end of summer camp, the bottom drops out of Lena's world. The police dismiss Kay-Kay's disappearance as that of just another teenage runaway, but Lena knows they are wrong. Tired of not being listened to, powerless to reach her parents through their grief and unable to imagine a future without her brother in it, Lena sets off to find him.
As Lena journeys across India to retrace Kay-Kay's last known steps, she embarks on a parallel journey of discovery. Because it seems there is a side to Kay-Kay she has never known. The more she learns about her brother in the weeks leading up to his disappearance, the more determined Lena is to find him – and to finally be the sister he has so clearly needed. But will she be too late...?
Bringing Back Kay-Kay--The Times Children's Book of the Week
The Times Children's Book of the Week
by Dev Kothari
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- ISBN: 9781529521276
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- ISBN: 9781529521276
- File size: 5035 KB
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- English
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August 5, 2024
Debut author Kothari centers adventure, poetry, and an indelible sibling bond in this character-driven mystery set in India. Tween Lena loves her older brother Kay-Kay, 15, even though Lena can’t seem to do anything right by their parents, who put Kay-Kay on a pedestal. Then Kay-Kay doesn’t return after two weeks away at summer camp. Because he left his backpack and friends behind on the train ride home, the police assume he is one of many runaway teens, despite Lena’s parents’ insistence that would never be the case. Vowing to track down her brother, Lena embarks on a clandestine investigative journey. During her quest, she discovers that her studious, seemingly perfect sibling was a secret poet; she uses his poems as clues to determine where he might have disappeared to and why. Contemporary India is depicted in sparse yet palpable detail via Lena’s urgent first-person narration in which she speaks directly to Kay-Kay. While this missing person mystery is action-packed, it is Lena’s devotion to her brother, rich inner world, and meditations on her complicated feelings for her family and her culture that drives the story forward. Ages 10–14.
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