Title: The Last Child
Description: > Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he’d been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain. [More][1]


  [1]: http://us.macmillan.com/thelastchild
Subjects: Fiction, Twins, Missing children, family, kidnapping, disappearance, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, suspense, Missing persons, fiction, Twins, fiction, North carolina, fiction, Psychological fiction, Secrets, Mystery fiction, Large type books, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-05-31, New York Times bestseller, Missing persons, Investigation, Teenage boys, Escaped prisoners, Small town life, Detectives, Dysfunctional families, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Detective and mystery stories
Places: North Carolina, LVL 3.8.