missing persons

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missing persons

Scat

2009
Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.

Torn to pieces

2008
Seventeen-year-old Anne's life takes on a nightmarish quality when her quirky mother, frequently away on business trips, disappears, and a strange man begins leaving messages on the answering machine for someone who does not live there.

Leepike ridge

2007
While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground caves with another survivor and a dog, and pursued by murderous treasure-hunters.

SilverFin

a James Bond adventure
2005
Young James Bond attends school at the prestigious Eton boarding school, and teams up with Red to investigate the mystery of the disappearance of a boy, Alfie Kelly, Red's cousin, allegedly linked to a madman with a plot for global domination.

Alison, who went away

2001
Three years after the disappearance of her older sister, fourteen-year-old Sibyl and her family struggle to continue their lives, separately and together.

The stolen relic

2004
Nancy Drew and her friends investigate the disappearance of a tour guide at the Arches National Park.

Dangling

2001
Eleven-year-old Ben recalls his relationship with his unusual friend Ring, who walked into the river and disappeared one day.

Caught!

1994
After a bus journey in search of their father, thirteen-year-old Vickie and her younger sister discover that he is missing and may need their help.

Twice taken

1994
A support group of teenagers coping with family problems helps Amy to adjust after she's ordered to live with her mother following the discovery that her divorced father abducted her years ago.

Shift

2008
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.

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