Summary: The Disappearance

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The Disappearance has a very misconceiving title, no disappearing really happens. Anyways, the book originally goes like this: Mike, one of the main characters, get sent to a foster home he refers to as the Medlar home because he hasn’t accepted it into his life just yet. He has to assert himself as the dominant male, so he does that by stealing the remote from one of the kids and intimidates him with it. Paddy, the former dominant male, or as I call him, the huge bully, doesn’t like this a whole lot. Throughout the book, they fight for dominance, but that’s merely a side story. The main story is centered around Jacob, who Mike instantly notices as the quiet one, but his interest in him peaks when Chaz, one of the staff members, explains that

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