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The Night I Disappeared

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Jamie has been friends with Webb for eight years, since she was nine. He understands her better than anybody else does. He even saved her life, which is how they first met.

Now Webb is back-packing through Europe, and Jamie has to spend the summer in Chicago with her mother, who is the defense attorney for a girl accused of killing a child molestor. Jamie misses Webb very much, and the case her mother is working on troubles her in ways she doesn't understand. She starts doing weird things. For example, she daydreams about Webb a lot, losing track of where she is, and runs her bike into a parked car before she comes back to reality. Her mom has to leave the case she's working on to go to the emergency room.

Jamie's mom is worried about her, but Jamie says she's fine. Her mother seems to believe this more than Jamie does and Jamie is getting scared. Sometimes she can't help daydreaming about Webb, as if she gets lost in her own mind. And then she discovers that when she's daydreaming about him, she's talking out loud to him --- pretty humiliating when she's in public!

While she's in the emergency room Jamie meets Morgan, a girl her own age, and for the first time she has another friend besides Webb. Morgan thinks Jamie should talk to her aunt, who is a psychiatrist. Jamie knows she has a little problem, but believes she's handling it and doesn't need a shrink. Then circumstances get beyond her control, and she ends up not only talking to Morgan's aunt, but strapped to a bed in a psychiatric ward.

This book is not spooky science fiction about mind-controlling computers or aliens. It's a suspenseful, realistic, psychological novel with touches of genuine humor about the mind's ability to protect itself from things too terrible to remember. Jamie is a spunky, intelligent, and mature young girl who, on the threshold of the rest of her life, has been rendered incapable of living it until she can deal with her past. Read this book to unravel the mystery of a day that splintered Jamie's world, to learn who Webb is, and to find out how Jamie gets on with her life.

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The book "The Night I Disappeared" is a great book. When Jamie Tessman moves to Chicago with her mom for the summer she finds herself seeing her friend Web, who lives back in California, everywhere she goes and in everything she does. Pretty soon she finds herself trapped in an inner world that is beginning to take over the other aspects of her life. The book has many unexpected twists and Julie Reece Deaver does a wonderful job of making you feel like you are with Jamie as this is happening. This is definitely one of the best books I have ever read.

Bestselling thriller author Jeffery Deaver isn't the only writer in the family. His sister Julie is quite talented in her own right, as "The Night I Disappeared" makes abundantly clear.

This is the story of Jamie Tessman, the daughter of a well-known defense attorney. Jamie isn't thrilled at the prospect of spending the summer in Chicago, where her mother is working on a high-profile case. She'd rather stay back in California with her best friend, Webb. Unfortunately, Webb has other plans for the summer as well, and in light of Jamie's recent problems in school, her mother isn't particularly inclined to leave her to her own devices. In Chicago, Jamie finds herself facing a worse problem than a dull, lonely summer: she finds herself swept up in hallucinatory daydreams about Webb. Jamie's new friend Morgan sees how Jamie is getting more and more lost in her own inner world, and it is Morgan who calls the hospital one night when Jamie lapses into an extended trance. After that, Jamie begins therapy with Morgan's aunt, a psychiatrist, and soon finds herself coming face-to-face with the secret she has kept buried deep within herself for eight years. . . .

Jamie is a delightful and sympathetic character who will have readers rooting for her every step of the way. The suspense is unrelenting, and the story is peppered with tantalizing clues that will keep readers guessing - and turning the pages. The conclusion is thoroughly satisfying, promising hope and happiness without trying to have us believe that everything's going to get better overnight. Thoughtful young readers who enjoy a good mystery should devour this one.

Jamie is a 17-year-old girl who finds herself living in a fantasy world she can't escape. She (and we) don't know what is real in her life and what isn't. It isn't until she seeks help from a compassionate psychiatrist (the doctor in Deaver's Say Goodnight, Gracie) that she begins to piece together memory fragments of an event that shattered her mind when she was nine. As serious as the story is, there are flashes of humor and teen insight. My students loved this book!

This book was awesome! Once I picked it up I didn't stop till I finished it!!! Sure, it's a small book, 200 or so pages, but it definitely doesn't leave you empty handed. You certainly do not want to miss out on a great book like this, I would suggest you buy it right way, don't wait! You'll be missing out on a great book if you don't!!!!

This fast read is a scary thriller about a seventeen year old girl named Jamie whose mind is splintered by a frightening event in her past. With the help of a caring doctor, she slowly figures out what happened to her one night when she was only nine years old. An excellent novel for teens!

at first it looks like Jamie is a normal teenager who just doesn't fit in at school, then some strange things start happening to her and you realize she is slowly falling apart. You will want to keep reading to find out what caused her problems. this is a great mystery!

This book may be the best i have ever read
Seventeen year old Jamie is finding herself in frightenening self - induced nightmares, the only problem... They arent always at night. Jamie is slipping away more frequently as the summer progresses. She will soon find out what it like to have your whole life change with the blink of an eye. This is full of twists that makes you read obsesively, i COULD NOT put this book down. The writing is genius, simple but soooo intriguing and unbelively gripping. this is a MUST READ!

Being a fan of Ms. Deaver's other books (Say Goodnight Gracie and Chicago Blues, to name a couple), I decided to check this one out too. I didn't put it down until I finished it, and loved the ending!!

Jamie is NOT a happy 17 year old girl. Her mom's making her move to Chicago for a summer and her best friend Webb is backpacking through Europe, so there's no way she can contact him. Just as Jamie thinks things can't get any worse - they do. She starts having these daydreams/fantasies that she can't control. And they keep landing her in potentially dangerous situations. Jamie meets Morgan Hackett and her aunt, a "shrink" (they were both in Say Goodnight Gracie). Jamie really likes the two, and becomes fast friends with Morgan. But when her dreams seem to take control over her, Morgan and Jamie's mom are forced to do something that Jamie might never forgive her for.

This book was awesome, and I totally loved the surprise ending. Highly recommended.

The Night I Disappeared is mostly about a normal teenage girl named Jamie. But really Jamie isn't normal at all or had a normal life.
Jamie's mom is a lawyer that is non stop. Her mom gets all the publicity a famous person does just on a court case. Well Jamie's mother has to go live in Chicago to do a famous murder trail. When stress is put on Jamie because she misses her friends and boyfriend everything gets out of control.
Jamie starts to have dreams or `clips' in her mind about her boyfriend Web. Soon the dreams become a hassle for her. Her mom very concerned about her healthy, she sends her to a physiatrist. Jamie went ahead and agreed so it wouldn't put even more stress on her because of the case. When Jamie soon finds out things her life, her family is hit like a bolt of light hitting the earth. Jamie soon finds out that her life isn't what she thought it was.
I really liked this book because it has a twist in it. It leaves you stunned because people's lives can be like that. It leaves you sitting on the edge of your seat. You can also make so many comparisons and you can understand what Jamie has to go through.
My dislikes are how the book goes back and forth from her dreams and her real life because it can confuse you. Other than that I wouldn't say anything else bad about it.
I would recommend this book to any person. A person who really loves mystery or Rebecca Davis books would also enjoy this
I hope you enjoyed this review and go out and check and read this book. I will defiantly leave you stunned.