Missing Pieces

Brief Description: As she watches her friends with their fathers, fourteen-year-old Jessie decides the family she shares with her mother and her great-great-aunt is not enough, so she sets out to learn more about the father who left when she was just a baby. Brief Description: As she watches her friends with their fathers, fourteen-year-old Jessie decides the family she shares with her mother and her great-great-aunt is not enough, so she sets out to learn more about the father who left when she was just a baby. Biographical Note: 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. Review Quotes: "Beautifully written . . . A bittersweet and complex coming-of-age story."--"Booklist"Table of Contents: Contents1The Disappearing Dude12The Tiniest Punctuation Mark in the World63Worlds and Anti-Worlds84Love-Hate Relationship145The D Zone226My Little Secret317Unmentionable Acts348Jealous Eyes419Buckets of Sound, Lakes, and Oceans4810Take Two Aspirin and Cheer Up5211Say It with Conviction5412Somebody Good Like Me5813A Large, Grape-Colored Menu6114Jimmy6615Red Flags and Green Garbage Bags7116Flecks of Paint7717Things Too Numerous to Mention8118Station WJES8919In a Heartbeat9420Wall of Ice9721This Is the Air He Breathed10322Little Pearls11323A Bizarre Layer Cake11624Disobedience, Disorder, and Defiance12125Monkey Bars12426A Storm12727Scared to Death13128Twenty Questions13429The Phone Number13530Raspberry Ice Cream14031Jumping for the Sun14232 Blue Lake146"Publisher Marketing: 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 Citations:

School Library Journal 04/01/1995 pg. 154 (EAN 9780688133498, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Booklist 04/01/1995 pg. 1388 (EAN 9780688133498, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 06/12/1995 pg. 62 (EAN 9780688133498, Hardcover)

Kirkus Review - Children 04/01/1995 pg. 472 (EAN 9780688133498, Hardcover)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1995 pg. 311 (EAN 9780688133498, Hardcover)

Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/1996 pg. 79 (EAN 9780688133498, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 09/16/1996 (EAN 9780380722891, Mass Market Paperbound)

Contributor Bio:  Mazer, Norma Fox Norma Fox Mazer, who lives in Montpelier, Vermont, has written nearly thirty novels and short-story collections for young adults. Her novels, including Missing Pieces, Out of Control, Girlhearts, and the Newbery Honor Book After the Rain, are critically acclaimed and popular among young readers for their portrayal of teens.