![]() ![]() If you can suspend your disbelief long enough to buy into the whole circumstances of these two girls (one's mom left her 8-year-old and her keys in her car unattended while she ran into the minimart to buy something at the same moment when the minimart was being robbed several years later the girls happen to meet at the same summer camp? and oh, the kidnapped girl's mom's cousin also spent time in prison, as did (other kid at camp) Jeremy's dad?), there's still the whole race thing. The other (big) beef I had with this book was that it felt incredibly manipulated and forced. ![]() ![]() So, that was kinda pointless, though easier to read than some other books in verse I can think of. Which is maybe just as well since they were likely to miss it in the first place, but still-a little reward for the trouble would've been nice. In the author's note at the end, the reader goes back through In the words at the end of the longest lines. Other than that the author wanted to hide Each voice has its own form of poetic verse it's not terrible poetry but Darra's voice just looks like randomly broken Told in the voices of the kidnapped girl (Wren) and the girl whose dad kidnapped her (Darra). ![]() Teen fiction (in verse) unintentional kidnapping trauma new girl at summer camp hoping that no one finds out her dad is in prison for said kidnapping. ![]()
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