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Girl, Missing is a 2006 English-language young adult thriller novel by Sophie McKenzie. It won the 2007 Bolton Children's Book Award , the 2008 Manchester Book Award and the 2007 Red House Children's Book Award for Older Readers, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] as well as being longlisted for the Carnegie Medal . [ 4 ]
Free Lunch is a Junior Library Guild selection [2] and was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, [3] Publishers Weekly, [4] and School Library Journal. [5] Kirkus Reviews called the book "A mighty portrait of poverty amid cruelty and optimism."
Throughout the chapter, Allison returns favors to each teacher she meets (lending a book to the librarian, giving food to the lunch lady Miss Mush, and returning a ball to Louis). At the end of the chapter, she helps Mrs. Jewls with an arithmetic problem (spelling the word "chair"), and in return, Mrs. Jewls reveals a secret: students are ...
Book stackers at a Staten Island library found themselves in the middle of a mystery worthy of a best-selling novel. Librarian Sydel Vergara was putting books away at the Mariners Harbor branch ...
The Suitcase Kid is a 1992 children's novel written by Jacqueline Wilson and illustrated by Nick Sharratt.The story focuses upon a young girl, Andy, caught between her warring parents' bitter divorce, and the determination Andy has to get her parents back together (as is common amongst children whose parents are divorcing).
A woman last seen nearly a year ago was found dead inside a large suitcase by Washington State police clearing out a homeless encampment last month. ... new shoes and she was a happy girl ...
William Glenn Olson, 29, is charged with deliberate homicide in connection to the death of Alicia Lindsey Wood, 46, weeks after she was reported missing. Missing Woman Killed, Stuffed Inside ...
Incidentally, after the airing of Marshall's case on Unsolved Mysteries in 1990, a tip received from a viewer who believed Marshall may have been one of his school classmates in Bellingham, Washington led to the recovery of Monica Bonilla, [13] a young girl who had gone missing in 1982 from Burbank, California, having been kidnapped by her non ...