Joan’s boyfriend and her brother are missing and assumed dead. Until the voice on the other end of the phone hints at something more terrible.
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Jun 22, 2010
Angela
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Joan’s brother, Larry, and boyfriend, Dan, mysteriously disappear while on a camping trip. No bodies are found. After the search is called off and newspapers release news of their assumed death by drowning, Joan receives a phone call from a stranger who claims her brother owes over two thousand dollars. She believes his story when she examines an IOU with her brother’s signature. The man tells her about the business her brother was involved in and gives her the opportunity to fill in for him in
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Jun 08, 2011
Wing Kit
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Two boys are gone on a camping trip, never found or returned home. Somewhere out in the world, 2 boys are living together some place else. One has forgotten his memory and one seems to know it all. Could these two boys be the missing boys from the camping trip? This book has a lot of plot twists which makes it very interesting and intense. Who knew that one of those boys who felt so mistreated and seemed kind could have been the one to cause many problems to two families. There are some confusin
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Jul 08, 2010
Geraldine
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This story begins with the disappearance of two teenage boys who spend a weekend camping in the mountains and never come home. As weeks turn into months their families agonize over the sketchy details surrounding their disappearance. Local authorities call off search parties and peg the two youths as dead. However, Joanie, the sister to one missing boy and girlfriend to the other is trying to stay strong and keep her family from falling apart. Her mother, in shock, now lives within herself, and
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Sep 17, 2011
Elvia
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I just read it and it was great. It was copy written in 1969 but though the lack of technology, it reads as timeless. It was a wonderful read that kept me riveted throughout. I didn't even think that I was going to like it. I didn't like it. I loved it.
Joan Drayfus' boyfriend and brother went for a hike. They never came back. Her mother is in a fragile state and everyone is mourning their death. It's easier to put the tragedy behind her. But there is a call and a man wants s More...
Joan Drayfus' boyfriend and brother went for a hike. They never came back. Her mother is in a fragile state and everyone is mourning their death. It's easier to put the tragedy behind her. But there is a call and a man wants s More...
Jun 21, 2008
Sarah
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i really liked this book! it really kept me on my toes to find out wat happened next! i highly recomend this book!
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Nov 17, 2010
I am on page 14, and although I have read this already, things are not going well. What I like (LOVE) about Lois Duncan is that her beginning isn't that boring, and it's shorter, mostly to identify waht's wrong. After taht, building up the suspense until ..................................................... ending taht's half scary, half relief/happiness, mostly.
This book is AWESOME!
This book is AWESOME!
Sep 23, 2010
Kacy
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I thought that this book was very confusing. If you did not have any imagination in this book, you would never know what was going on. It was a good book to read once you found out the main details on who all the characters were and what was going on with all of the people. If you like books that you have to think and figure out things, this is the book for you!
Nov 24, 2008
Asad
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This book was great. This is one of the books I would recommend to young adult readers, not kids because it talks about a lot of things that kids will not really understand. It is very descriptive and shows how some people never show who they really are. This also shows not to trust everyone. Some will be trustworthy, but others will not.
Jun 12, 2008
Relyn
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I discovered Lois Duncan when I was a teenager. We lived in places with tiny libraries so I never got to read all her books. (Thank God for modern libraries and interlibrary loans.) This summer I was reading The Longstockings Blog (http://thelongstockings.blogspot.com/) and one of the writer's mentioned that this was her favorite of all Duncan's books. I still enjoy young adult literature, so I thought it would be fun to read a book I missed as a teenager.
I did enjoy this book. More...
I did enjoy this book. More...
Oct 24, 2011
Sharon
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I think this was one of Lois Duncan's earliest books. It feels like it, partly because it's very dated--there's a lot about dating and relationships that is very 1960s (steadies, calling around for a date for the dance, running with crowds). It's actually a little slow, and the plot revolves around a kid who's in some very dated trouble.
Honestly, I was going to give it two stars, but that dated trouble is just what dragged it back up to three. Because there are some FABULOUS rants a More...
Honestly, I was going to give it two stars, but that dated trouble is just what dragged it back up to three. Because there are some FABULOUS rants a More...
Feb 05, 2012
Brent
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They Never Came Home sure took a long time to get going. It seemed like nothing happened in the first 16 chapters of the book. Written in the '60s, the book is clearly dated. But, Lois Duncan is an excellent author with a descriptive writing style. It's unfortunate that the book had so many slow chapters. The last two chapters were fantastic, so if you can make it passed the slow start you'll be treated to a great ending.
Jan 03, 2009
Kristine
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So...this was not as good as I Know What You Did Last Summer. Written in the late 1960's, the language is very dated (today's teens would have some trouble with it) and the presentation of women and girls is dated as well.
Dec 21, 2011
This is a action/adventure. If you like this kind of book. I would read it i leaves a mystery and there waz anouther couple lost at the same time. I would read this book if i were you it a good book.
Sep 14, 2007
Wendy
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I was pleased to find a paperback of this in a thrift store, because it's one of the few Lois Duncans that hasn't been available in the libraries I've visited. Now I see why: it is HILARIOUSLY old-fashioned, and they probably only reprinted it when the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" movie came out. It was written in 1969 (before she started getting into the occult/ESP stuff with A Gift of Magic) and has very funny ideas about The Dangers of Marijuana. It's genuinely suspenseful f
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Nov 25, 2010
Great book! It kept me reading to the end! But like so many books that I read today it does have some dry spots!
Aug 01, 2010
Kelly
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I loved this book. Yet another Lois Duncan success. The twists and turns are so unexpected. It keeps you on your toes.
Nov 17, 2008
do you know someone who went somewhere and never came back?you nshould read this book because......if you how it feels to lose someone you really love and thought that they were dead because they never came back form a store or a camping trip,then you know how the draydfus family feels when their son larwance or larry go on a camping trip with his best friend Dan and they get lost and they were supposed to be commimng back monday moring but the two boys never came back family went out looking
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Apr 25, 2009
Oli
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The whole book made no sence. I just like it how they called marajuana happy grass-I thought it was funny.
Oct 28, 2011
A book that I never thought that I would pick up to read but I am glad I did cause it was good.
Oct 11, 2010
Kelsie ♥
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i loooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeee this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 25, 2009
Marcie
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Clean! It is exciting to see where the book twists and turns in the story line.
Jul 23, 2008
Heather
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Although I really like Lois Duncan's novels, this one was not one of my favorites. I didn't like the ending - it was a bit abrupt and left too many questions unanswered - almost like the author just wanted to end the novel rather than deal with some of the issues raised by the sequence of events in the story. Just my opinion, but the story line was intriguing. Picture yourself as a high school teenager whose brother and boyfriend go missing after they go camping for the weekend. How do you t
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Mar 11, 2011
Katherine
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This book was pretty good. The only thing that I didn't like was the fact that Joan so should have been with Frank. It just seemed wrong and not finished in the end.
Mar 28, 2011
Lance and Joan, were talking. Lance has been treating Joan very well. She's kind of surprised that his been so nice. Joan's father thinks Dan and Larry ran away with two-thousand dollars. Joan doesn't believe so. Joan's mother went crazy. She's been up in the hospital.
Apr 22, 2008
Megan
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This is about two boys who go camping one weekend and then never come home. No one can find them, and there are no traces of them. They simply vanished. A few days after thier disappearance, one of the boys sister gets a phone call saying he owed him two thousand dollars. So, the sister takes it into her own hands to pay him off. She wants to find out as much as she can, including her brother and his friend.
