Missing Pieces

by Norma Fox Mazer

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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.

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This book is a poignant, funny and bittersweet portrait of a girl, who like many, feels alienated from her peers because her family is not the way “it’s supposed to be.” Her search for her dad is compelling but not overwrought. Rather, the story is interspersed with lots of humor through her relationships with her mom and her friend, Meadow. In the end, Jessie understands that nothing is perfect—this lesson is subtly drawn. With an AR vocabulary of 3.7, this book is highly accessible, but should not be limited to low readers. The language is still beautiful and the story will resonate with many students—especially girls. (

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Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee – Young Adult – 1998)

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I couldn't wait for her to say it. "James Wells said, 'I'm going out for awhile.'"

"Uh-huh. And I said, 'Where are you going?' And he looked at his watch and said--

"'Nowhere special, be back in a few hours.'" This always hits my funny bone. "Nowhere special, be back in a few hours! But he never came back and you cried for three days!"

One day I added, "Because James Wells was the disappearing dude."

"Where'd you get that cutie?"...She couldn't stop laughing, and the disappearing dude became part of the story, too.

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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.

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