Bibliograph

Do You Know the Monkey Man?, Dori Hillestad Butler

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Label

Do You Know the Monkey Man?, Dori Hillestad Butler

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Do You Know the Monkey Man?

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Dori Hillestad Butler

Summary

Samantha's quest to answer her questions about her past sets in motion a chain of events that will change her life forever For thirteen-year-old Samantha, life consists of too many unanswered questions. Why has her father not tried to contact her all these years? How could he have allowed her twin sister to drown in Clearwater Quarry when they were only toddlers? And how can Samantha's mother expect her to accept some man she hardly knows as her new father? Samantha already has a father out there. Somewhere. A fateful decision sets into motion a chain of events and confrontations that will change Samantha's and her family's lives forever. As she sets out to find her father and discover what really happened the day her sister was presumed drowned, she uncovers painful secrets that threaten to destroy her family all over again. Readers will be drawn into Dori Butler's dramatic, suspenseful, and sensitive story of one family's crisis unwittingly brought on by an adolescent girl's search for the truth

Target audience

juvenile

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