TY - SER
KW - teenagers
KW - Carpatho-Rusyn Americans
KW - Hungarian Americans
KW - Croatian Americans
KW - glass industry
KW - orphans
KW - Orthodox Christians
KW - Serbian Americans
KW - mining accidents
KW - accidental deaths
KW - priests
KW - police
KW - coal industry
AU - Shauna Seliy
AB - Lucas Lessar, 13, lives in Banning, a fictitious coal patch town near Pittsburgh. When his father dies in a mine accident and his mother mysteriously disappears, Lucas lives with his Eastern European grandmother and takes long bus rides alone in search of his mother.
C1 - 1974
C3 - Warren County; Watson Twp.; Hearts Content Scenic Area; Allegheny National Forest; Westmoreland County; Monongahela River; W. Newton; Hunker
C4 - Literary; Young Adult; Coming-of-Age; Psychological; Children’s
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Lucas Lessar, 13, lives in Banning, a fictitious coal patch town near Pittsburgh. When his father dies in a mine accident and his mother mysteriously disappears, Lucas lives with his Eastern European grandmother and takes long bus rides alone in search of his mother.
PB - Bloomsbury USA
PP - New York
PY - 2007
RN - Shauna Seliy (1970— ), born and raised in Yukon, Westmoreland County, earned her BA at the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She teaches writing at Northwestern University.
EP - 272 p.
TI - When We Get There
ER -