missing children

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Felix & Alexander

1988
When Alexander becomes lost in the city, his stuffed dog Felix comes to rescue him, only to become lost himself.

Enemies

1989
Mary-Anna Clutterworth and Sandra Sutton are bitter enemies, until they have to spend an afternoon in town together and get lost.

Who I'm not

2013
Danny has been a con man in training for most of his young life, but nothing has prepared him for the con of his life: impersonating a missing boy. Much to his astonishment, his new 'family' accepts him as their own--despite the fact that he looks (and sounds) nothing like their missing relative. But one old cop has his suspicions about Danny--and he's not about to close the case.

The September sisters

2009
A teenaged girl tries to keep her family and herself together after the disappearance of her younger sister.

In the hands of the enemy

2003
Lost in the woods near Plymouth Colony, fourteen-year-old John, a member of the trouble-making Billington family that accompanied the Pilgrims on their Mayflower voyage in 1620, receives shelter and nourishment from the Nauset tribe.

The prickly hedgehog

1995
Little Hedgehog's legs are too short for him to keep up with his family on their trip to the country.

A Case for Solomon

Bobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation
2012
In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar, the son of an upper-middle-class Louisiana family, went missing in the swamps. After an eight-month search, a boy's body was found, but it was hardly recognizable. A wandering piano tuner who had been shuttling a child throughout the region for months was arrested and charged with kidnapping because it was said that the boy with him was really Bobby Dunbar and the body in the swamps that of another boy. But when a destitute single mother came forward from North Carolina to claim the boy with the pianio tuner that she said was her son, not Bobby Dunbar, the case became a high-pitched battle over custody and identity.

Invisible i

2009
Callie, Nia, and Hal have one thing in common: they were all chosen by Amanda to be her guide at Endeavour High School. However, when Amanda first arrived, she told Callie that when she starts at a new school she only chooses one person to help her out. Why did she lie? And where is she now? Because Amanda is missing...

Whisper

2010
Although Joy, who uses her mind-reading ability to grant wishes for people, and her sister Jessica, who uses the same ability make others miserable, do not get along, Joy tries to find and protect Jessica when she goes missing.

The Year of fog

a novel
2008
Photographer Abby Mason's happy anticipation of a life as a wife and stepmother comes to an abrupt end when Emma, the six-year-old daughter of her fiance Jake, disappears at the beach while in her care.

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