After you vanished

Title:

After you vanished

Author:

Neeves, E. A. (Emily Angela), 1987- author.

Summary:

Teddy’s favorite place is Bottomrock Lake, where sunfish swim in their little saucer nests and lilypads edge the shore. She’s worked there as a lifeguard every summer, including last year, when her twin sister Izzy waded into the lake for a midnight swim and never came out. Now, Teddy can’t stop scripting stories for where she went. Izzy was an accomplished swimmer, so she couldn’t possibly have drowned. And if she did somehow drown, where’s her body and why is her passport missing? When Toby, the gorgeous jerk who was with Izzy on the night she vanished, comes to Bottomrock to work as a lifeguard alongside Teddy, she can’t help but be suspicious. How many of her sister’s secrets does he hold? And how can Teddy unearth them—without falling for the boy who watched her sister disappear? -- Amazon.

Audience:

Ages 12-18. Hyperion.

Grades 10-12. Hyperion.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

326 pages ; 22 cm

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Romance fiction.

Subject Term:

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Twins -- Fiction.

Sisters -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Massachusetts -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Hyperion,

Publication Date:

2023

ISBN:

9781368092708

9781368095976

Publication Information:

New York : Hyperion, 2023.

Call Number:

YA NEEVES

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Summary

Teddy used to love lifeguarding Bottomrock Lake, until her twin went for a midnight swim and never came back. Being a talented swimmer, Izzy couldn't have drowned. If she did drown, where is her body, why is her passport missing? Then Toby, who watched Izzy disappear, takes a job as a lifeguard. With Toby's help, Teddy will spend one final summer trying to figure out what happened to Izzy.

Author Notes

E.A. Neeves grew up in New England, where she spent many summers lifeguarding at an idyllic lake, and occasionally catching snapping turtles. She enjoys tea, swimming, and board games that take entire evenings to play. When she's not writing, she can usually be found spending time with her family at their (probably not haunted) home in Salem, MA. After You Vanished is her YA debut.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Neeves concocts an emotional debut in which two teens find themselves at the center of an investigation around a missing girl. It's been a year since 18-year-old Teddy Ware's twin sister, Izzy, seemingly vanished into thin air while racing her best friend Toby Smith across Massachusetts's Bottomrock Lake. While everyone assumes that Izzy drowned, Teddy doesn't believe it, since the police never found a body. What's more, Izzy was training to be an Olympic swimmer, so a mile-long trek across the lake should have been easy for her. Teddy has been holding on to the hope that her sister's missing passport means she's alive and is hiding out somewhere. Teddy is soon blindsided to learn that she will be working alongside Toby as a lifeguard at the lake. When he offers to help her search for the truth, the two begin unraveling the riddle of what happened that night. Twists feel fresh and conceivable, and Teddy's relationships with both Izzy and Toby unfold at a compelling pace. The protagonist's resolute voice, formatted as if she is speaking directly to her sibling, propels this by turns thrilling mystery and tender, complex portrait of grief. Main characters read as white. Ages 12--up. Agent: Beth Miller, Writers House. (Aug.)