This book is a great mystery! After Gordy is abducted in the company of his friends and cousin Cooper. Cooper feels alone and guilty for not doing more to stop the kidnapping, the guilt and LOVE for Gordy drives Coop to do elaborate stunts. Can Coop find who did it and get his cousin back?
Back Before Dark: Sometimes rescuing a friend from darkness ... means going in after them (A Code of Silence Novel)
By Tim Shoemaker
Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
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Grades 4 - 8 | Grade 5 | n/a | 4.1 | 96084 |
Praise for Code of Silence:
“Deliberate, plausible, and gritty whodunit.” –Booklist Starred Review
Taken!
A detour through the park leads Cooper, Gordy, Hiro, and Lunk straight into a trap, and Gordy is abducted!
For the kidnapper, it’s all a game, a way to settle an old score, with no one getting hurt. But evil has a way of escalating, and once his identity is discovered, the rules change.
Despite the best of police efforts, the hours tick by without a clue or a ransom call, leaving everyone to their own fears. Gordy is gone. Cooper descends deeper into a living nightmare, imagining the worst for his best friend and cousin. Hours stretch into days, and talks of a memorial service begin to surface. But Cooper still feels his cousin is alive and develops a reckless plan, changing all the rules. Now the one who set out to rescue his friend needs to be rescued himself. Sometimes rescuing a friend from darkness means going in after them.