num_pages: 176
description: Bad things aren’t supposed to happen to good people. But somewhere between home and the softball field, 16-year-old Jody Chapman’s younger brother disappeared, and now the family is falling apart. Her parents hardly speak to each other, her younger sister is angry and bitter, and Jody’s friends, always so important to her, are slowly slipping away. It seems that all anyone can do is wait. Wait—for Michael to walk in the door. Wait—to stop missing him. Wait—to stop waiting. When a private detective can’t uncover a single clue about Michael’s disappearance, Jody’s urgent need to find him drives her to make a last desperate attempt to hold her family together.
language: English
title: The Year Without Michael
titlecomplete: The Year Without Michael
genres: Young Adult, Childrens, Novels, High School, Fiction, Read For School, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Family
ratings_count: 483
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult
publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers