Helpful Score: 3
Great book.
Helpful Score: 1
Harry and his younger brother Daniel come from what appears to be the perfect family. They attend a great school, their parents love each other, and they have a wonderful new uncle who is a fireman. However, the family's world falls apart after Harry and Daniel take a school trip to an amusement park; the bus stops at a rest stop on the way home and Daniel is left behind and presumably abducted.
This book runs the gamut of emotions, from the humor that can only come from a nine-year-old boy to the horror and desperation of trying to find a missing child. Similar in subject matter to Jacqueline Mitchard's "The Deep End of the Ocean", this one was a good read from a new author.
This book runs the gamut of emotions, from the humor that can only come from a nine-year-old boy to the horror and desperation of trying to find a missing child. Similar in subject matter to Jacqueline Mitchard's "The Deep End of the Ocean", this one was a good read from a new author.
Helpful Score: 1
Very difficult to read, nearly impossible to follow the characters' conversations. This is one of the worst written books that I have ever read.
Helpful Score: 1
I did not enjoy this book at all. Very had to follow. I finished it only because I am stubborn, not because it was good.
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I did finish this book and it was wonderful. Both funny and gutwrenchingly sad. I agree it was a little hard to follow b/c it was written as stream-of-consciousness from a 9-year-old's perspective, but it is possible...just think like a 9-yr-old whose little brother has just been abducted and who thinks it is his fault.
