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FROM: Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
REC'D: 5/28/02, 1:25 PM

A co-worker asked me to give the list a try on this one:

Patron is looking for a book she is almost positive is fiction. It's about
a boy with Down Syndrome who's around 8 years old and who's lost in the
woods. It was published several years ago and supposed to be very good. It
made some sort of best or recommended list, but she doesn't know which one.

Hope this sounds familiar!

Thanks,

Wendy

FROM: "Karen Traynor" <[removed]@midyork.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 5/28/02, 1:46 PM

Place Last Seen by Charlotte Freeman was published in 2000 and was on a list
of books recommended by independent booksellers, but it was a young girl
with Down's Syndrome that was lost, not a boy.

Karen Traynor
Sullivan Free Library
519 McDonnell Street
Chittenango, NY 13037
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendy Isom" <[removed]@pub-libSubject: Boy with Down syndrome lost in the
woods

> A co-worker asked me to give the list a try on this one:
>
> Patron is looking for a book she is almost positive is fiction. It's
about
> a boy with Down Syndrome who's around 8 years old and who's lost in the
> woods. It was published several years ago and supposed to be very good.
It
> made some sort of best or recommended list, but she doesn't know which
one.

FROM: [removed]@hudson.lib.oh.us
REC'D: 5/28/02, 2:29 PM

Although it wasn't down syndrome, could it be The Rescue by Nicholas
Sparks?

Mary Kenney
[removed]@hudson.lib.oh.us

> Subject: Boy with Down syndrome lost in the woods
> From: "Wendy Isom" <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:17:43 -0500
>
> A co-worker asked me to give the list a try on this one:
>
> Patron is looking for a book she is almost positive is fiction.
> It's about
> a boy with Down Syndrome who's around 8 years old and who's lost
> in the
> woods. It was published several years ago and supposed to be very
> good. It
> made some sort of best or recommended list, but she doesn't know
> which one.
>
> Hope this sounds familiar!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wendy

FROM: Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
REC'D: 5/28/02, 2:40 PM

Karen and Mary,

Thank you so much for your quick responses! I called the patron and she
thinks Place Last Seen is the title. She was very excited and impressed!

The members of this list are amazing.

Wendy

FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 11:23 AM

Could it be Allan W. Eckert's INCIDENT AT HAWK'S HILL, 1971? The boy didn't have Downs' syndrome, but was considered "slow" or "odd". It made a number of recommended lists over the years.

Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@hplsck.org 05/30/02 09:01AM >>>

Could it be The Wild Kid by Harry Mazer?

At 01:17 PM 5/28/02 -0500, you wrote:
>A co-worker asked me to give the list a try on this one:
>
>Patron is looking for a book she is almost positive is fiction. It's about
>a boy with Down Syndrome who's around 8 years old and who's lost in the
>woods. It was published several years ago and supposed to be very good. It
>made some sort of best or recommended list, but she doesn't know which one.
>
>Hope this sounds familiar!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Wendy
>
>......................................................................
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Sandra Gustafson
Reference Assistant
Hutchinson Public Library
Hutchinson, KS 67501
620-663-5441, x. 143

FROM: Sandra Gustafson <[removed]@hplsck.org>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 12:06 PM

Could it be The Wild Kid by Harry Mazer?

At 01:17 PM 5/28/02 -0500, you wrote:
>A co-worker asked me to give the list a try on this one:
>
>Patron is looking for a book she is almost positive is fiction. It's about
>a boy with Down Syndrome who's around 8 years old and who's lost in the
>woods. It was published several years ago and supposed to be very good. It
>made some sort of best or recommended list, but she doesn't know which one.
>
>Hope this sounds familiar!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Wendy
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

Sandra Gustafson
Reference Assistant
Hutchinson Public Library
Hutchinson, KS 67501
620-663-5441, x. 143

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 5/30/02, 8:04 PM

Could it be Betsy Byars' book The Summer of the Swans? This is a
Juvenile/YA selection written in 1970, but it has held up over time for
people of all ages.
Joyce May
Coventry Public Library
Coventry, RI

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