Synopses & Reviews
Jessie Wells can't remember her father, James--he left her family when she was very young. Now fifteen, Jessie has a sudden desire to track down the man she always thought of as "the disappearing dude." She calls all the Wellses in the phone book, hoping to speak to someone who knows her father. But will she be prepared when she finally finds him?
Review
"Beautifully written . . . A bittersweet and complex coming-of-age story."--Booklist
Synopsis
While searching for her long-lost father, a teenage girl finds herself
About the Author
NORMA FOX MAZER is an award-winning novelist and a faculty member for the Vermont College MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program. Her books have received a Newbery Honor, a Christopher Award, an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, a National Book Award nomination, and other honors. She lives in Montpelier, Vermont.
Table of Contents
Contents
1 The Disappearing Dude 1
2 The Tiniest Punctuation Mark in the World 6
3 Worlds and Anti-Worlds 8
4 Love-Hate Relationship 14
5 The D Zone 22
6 My Little Secret 31
7 Unmentionable Acts 34
8 Jealous Eyes 41
9 Buckets of Sound, Lakes, and Oceans 48
10 Take Two Aspirin and Cheer Up 52
11 Say It with Conviction 54
12 Somebody Good Like Me 58
13 A Large, Grape-Colored Menu 61
14 Jimmy 66
15 Red Flags and Green Garbage Bags 71
16 Flecks of Paint 77
17 Things Too Numerous to Mention 81
18 Station WJES 89
19 In a Heartbeat 94
20 Wall of Ice 97
21 This Is the Air He Breathed 103
22 Little Pearls 113
23 A Bizarre Layer Cake 116
24 Disobedience, Disorder, and Defiance 121
25 Monkey Bars 124
26 A Storm 127
27 Scared to Death 131
28 Twenty Questions 134
29 The Phone Number 135
30 Raspberry Ice Cream 140
31 Jumping for the Sun 142
32 Blue Lake 146