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Missing Since Monday (Point)

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This is the best book in the entire world. No joke. I bought my first copy in a small hospital book sale, for a quarter and loved it ever since. I've recommended it to all my friends, and most of them loved it too. I love it so much that I'm writing my own sequal to it. I started yesturday, and already wrote twelve computer size 12 pages. I hope that It'll be a real book someday! Missing Since Monday is very suspensful, and interesting, and It really shows how a family treasures their children. My sequal is about the kidnapped girl, Courtnay when she's older, and how her life is going.
Read this book, Read this book, REad this book!!!! You don't wanna miss it!!!
P.S. I wish I could give it more stars!

Magggie's half sister, Courtie, has been kidnapped and Maggie's determined to get her back! Usually Leah(Maggie's stepmom) and Maggie disagree on a lot of things, but they both know that if Courtie's not back soon, well, she may never be coming back. The prime suspects are Leah's ex-husband, Maggie's mother, and a creepy teenage dropout. CD and BSC fans, this is a realistic, heartfelt book with characters that"guide" you through the book, and for those readers new to Martin's books, this is a good book to begin on. I highly recommend it!

In every good book, there is a plot, setting, characters, and suspence. The book, "Missing Since Monday", has all of these aspects and much more! "Missing Since Monday", is a book about a family that encounters a heart-breaking experience. One of the family members has been kidnapped and the family is going through, what seems like a neverending search. The family of the of the kidnapped child have formed search parties, put up flyers, and everything else they could do to find their loved one. The police are steaked out at their house and have been asking everything and everybody, related to the kidnapping. Even though the family has cooperated 100% the police still aren't sure if the person will ever be caught. But one day, the family gets a phone call that will make the police eat their words!

Maggie and her brother are in charge of their half sister whileMaggie and her brother's dad and step mother go on a long delayedhoneymoon. The first couple days at home by themselves are fine until Maggie puts Courtie, her half sister, on the bus that takes her to school. When Maggie gets home, her sister isn't there and when she calls the school, they say that she wasn't even in school. Calling the police and coming up with a lists of suspects, then questioning each one is hard for Maggie to do but she does it. Then one night, Maggie's mother calls. She tells Maggie and her brother to meet her at a resurant a couple days later and says she has a present for them. Is this present something that they want but don't want to get from her. I know I probably gave you too much information but I think you should read this book because it is really good. :) Thanx for reading my review. Also you can go on my mystery web page ( ) and see more mysteries I think you will enjoy!

You know, I read this book for the first time when I was probably ten years old. I read it quite a few times. Now at age 27 I have a child of my own. I'm not sure I could stomach reading the book now. It is a really, really good book, and I have read one or two reviews where people thought it was boring and what not. That scares me a little because these things really DO happen, and there is nothing boring, and everything SCARY about them happening.Granted, this is just a book but it's quite accurate. It's very sad because more and more these days, as with the Adam Walsh case, you do not hear about a happy ending. Alot of cops have been known to say that if a child is not found within the first few hours of a kidnapping, the odds go down that he or she will be found alive.

As child, I just thought the book was good. I didn't think much of how the step-mom (mother to the little girl)was feeling, as I had no children and was only child myself and identified more with the teenage charactors. As a mother I now understand what the mother was going through and can only imagine that I would be in hysterics and insane if my child was abducted.

Maggie took her four year old sister Courtenay on the bus ,so she can go to her pre-school,but Courtenay's school called home that afternoon saying Courtenay didn't attend school that day.Maggie calls the cops saying Courtenay was missing . Mike starts calling everyone they know.The detectives help them find her.Throughout the book the detectives ,Maggie ,Mike an there school try to find there little sister.

The best partof the book was the suspense because everytime you stop reading you just want to keep on reading to find out what happens next. Also,the book was very realistic for the reason that everyday there are kidnapping in other places around the world .In addition, it was emotional when they didn't get information about Courtenay. For a person like me who doesnt like reading you will like this one. THE ENDING WILL SURPRISE YOU!!!!!!!!

This book is about a family and their parents go away. Then one day their youngst daughter rides the bus to school but does not go to school and does not come home. The family finds out that the daughter has been kidnapped. They find out who kidnapes their daughter and tries to catch him night and day.

When you first look at the cover of the book "Missing Since Monday," by Ann Matthews Martin, you can see right off that the book is going to be some kind of mystery book from just looking at the title. Threw the book there will be a lot of mysteries. When you start reading this book you can't put it down until you have read everything.

Maggie's father had been divorced with her mother since Maggie and her little sister and her older brother since they were about 6 or 7 years old. Along the years Maggie's father had has gotten married. They don't get out that much because they have to always look after Maggie's little sister all the time. Maggie's parents have there Honeymoon coming up. Maggie's little sister is about 6 years old. Maggie's step mom is her little sister's real mom.

Maggie's parents are thinking that they might not go because Maggie is not that responsible enough to take care of her sister all alone. Maggie's parents leave to go to there honeymoon because Maggie convinced then that she is responsible enough to take care of her sister.

When Maggie takes her sister to the park she notices that there is someone following them around and watching there every move. So that day Maggie got so scared that she went throw this hole thing with her sister about what to do when somebody is trying to get you in there car or just safety tips when something is happening to you.

One day her sister flooded the kitchen. So Maggie had to clean it up. She told her sister to just get her self ready to go to school. Her sister got ready went when to the bus. That day her sister never came back from school. Maggie thought that her sister might of just have gone to her friend's house. So Maggie called some of her little sister's friend's houses but none of then said she was over there.

She never came home. Maggie called her sisters bus driver but she said that she never got on the bus after school. That's when Maggie got really scared. But Maggie didn't want to tell her parents because she wanted them to have a good time and not have to come back.

Maggie is stumped and she can't find out what happened to her sister. She doesn't know what to do or who to turn to. That is my summary of "Missing Since Monday," by Ann Matthew Martin.

I had read this book when I was a teenager. It was good then and good now. Very well written.

Teens Maggie and Mike are responsible for their four-year-old half sister Courtenay while their parents take a long-postponed vacation. Since they enjoy their time with the active little girl, they figure a few days alone won't be a problem.

The first morning their parents are away, Maggie and Mike put Courtie on the bus...only to learn she never arrived at school. They are forced to cut their father and stepmother's trip short as the family entreats friends and neighbors to hang posters and canvass the area.

Throughout the nightmare, 15-year-old Maggie keeps getting harassing phone calls from an anonymous male. She isn't sure if the person has anything to do with her little sister's disappearance, but she's rattled nonetheless.

Although geared for the YA level, the story is very real. Martin does a good job depicting how easily a child can be snatched - even a smart one, who has been warned of all the world's dangers by her loving family. She also shows how it takes but a moment to turn a family's mundane everyday life into a relentless nightmare. Nothing else really seems to matter when a loved one is missing.