missing children

When Callie interviews the band, Brass Rat, for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, she knows where the dangerous search must begin.

In 1975, thirteen-year-old Ruby Mae Vickers disappears in Alvin, Alabama. Leah Teal, new detective of Alvin, is assigned to the case. After three months, Ruby Mae finally turns up dead beneath a willow beside a swamp. Twelve years later, another little girl goes missing. Then another. Leah is sure these incidents are connected to the one she failed to solve a dozen years ago. The job of finding them again falls to Leah. Then Leah's own daughter joins the list of missing girls.

A child lost in the forest is fed and protected by the animals there.

Junior Bear is missing, and Goldie, the police officer sent to investigate his disappearance, looks oddly familiar to Junior's family.

Little Sister Rabbit is happy to be off on an adventure without her annoying older brother until she gets lost.

Ten-year-old Bridget goes out to play on a snowy day in the Adirondack Mountains and gets lost in a blizzard with her neighbor Gracey.

When her sixteen-year-old daughter Kelly disappears from her bedroom one night, Long Island single mom Jane Hartley discovers that she had been involved with a man she had met on MySpace.com and who is holding her hostage and hires an ex-FBI agent to bring her daughter home.

The Fletcher family moves to Steuben, North Carolina, thinking it will be the right place for them. However, when their eight-year-old son Stevie becomes very withdrawn, they discover that he is being stalked and that other boys have mysteriously disappeared from the town.

Examines some of the most infamous kidnapping cases in American history, beginning with the abduction of Charley Ross in 1874, and discusses the ways in which the public has come, socially and culturally, to define, understand, cope with, and imagine this crime.

"Red Knit Cap Girl and White Bunny, with help from Mr. Owl and the Moon, take to the high seas as they set off on a journey to help the lost Polar Bear Cub find his way back to his family and his Arctic home"--Provided by publisher.