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166 pp.
| Farrar |
March, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-374-31338-5$$16.00
(4)
4-6
Eleven-year-old Elsie begins having flashbacks and realizes that she and her autistic brother Tommy were abducted by their mother four years earlier. When Tommy gets sick, Elsie breaks her mother's rules about talking to strangers and goes for help. Both the complete loss of her memory and its sudden reappearance stretch belief. However, Elsie is a sympathetic character, and the plot is intriguing.