missing children

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missing children

Doppelganger

2008
High school newspaper reporter Roni Delicata finds an age-progressed photo of a missing child that looks just like her sidekick, Brian, throwing the pair into an investigation of Brian's past and family heritage.

Nature Girl

2010
While spending the summer in Vermont, eleven-year-old Megan gets lost on the Appalachian Trail and decides to hike to Massachusetts to visit her best friend.

The Amanda Project

Invisible I
2009
Three very different girls from the same high school are selected to be guides for a new student, but when the girl disappears, leaving behind a trail of clues, the girls must work together to solve the mystery of Amanda Valentino.

Code name Cassandra

2007
Jess Mastriani, hounded by the media and the government after a lightning strike leaves her with the psychic ability to find missing children, wants only to be left alone and tells everyone that she has lost her touch, but the chase begins once again when she gives in to a plea from the father of a missing girl to find his daughter.

The night children

2000
Thirteen-year-old Jule Devereaux, trying to solve the mystery of her aunt's disappearance at the mall, becomes caught up in an ongoing fight between rival gangs of "night children"--abandoned, lost, or runaway kids who live in the mall, but they must all band together to fight a common enemy when they learn the mall owner is planning to exterminate them.

To Oz and back

a Bones & the Duchess mystery
2003
Bones, a former police officer, teams up with Verity, a clever twelve-year-old with Asperger's syndrome, to try to solve the mystery of two missing girls.

Where is home, Little Pip?

2010
After Little Pip the penguin gets lost she meets a whale, a kelp gull, and sled dogs who cannot help her, but with the aid of her family's song, home finds her.

Wildwood

2011
Prue's life shifts from ordinary to extraordinary when her baby brother is kidnapped by a murder of crows and she must embark into the Impassable Wilderness, a dense forest in the center of Portland, Oregon, with her friend Curtis in tow, where the pair will encounter warring creatures, peaceful mystics, and other dark-minded, powerful figures.

The case of the lost boy

2010
While searching for his mysteriously lost human family, Buddy the dog is adopted by another family and helps solve the mystery of their missing boy.

The magician's elephant

2009
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day who tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures in an attempt to find her.

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