Wanted! [Mass Market Paperback]

Caroline B. Cooney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1997

When her father is murdered and the police obtain an e-mail confession that implicates her, Alice Robie realizes she will have to flee and prove her innocence. Original."

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks; First Edition edition (July 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590988492
• ISBN-13: 978-0590988490
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (113 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #769,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Suspense
  • #19 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Teens > Authors, A-Z > ( C ) > Cooney, Caroline B.
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wanted! a book by Caroline B. Cooney, January 23, 2000

By 

Elizabeth - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wanted! (Mass Market Paperback)

The book Wanted! is a very well written suspense book filled with mystery and thrilling events. The story starts with a phone call from Alice's dad. He tells her to take the corvette and bring the disks labeled TWIN to the place where they get milk shakes. Even though Alice does not have her license he says it doesn't matter and to just bring them any way. Alice tries to ask him why but he hangs up before she can. Why would her dad want the disks and for her take the car out when she can't drive? Alice is about to leave when she hears people come into the house. Scare, Alice hides under the car till she thinks they are gone. When she gets in the car and drives to the place she hears disturbing news on the radio. Her dad has been murdered. The police and her very own mom thinks she is guilty, because of confession e-mail letter. Now the police are after her and the real murder too. Will Alice be caught? If Alice is caught, who is will be the one catching her? The rest of the book tells of her exciting adventure of being a fugitive. I had a good time reading this book and thought it was a very good page-turner with cliff hanging chapters. I recommend this book for people who like action pack thrillers. The reading level is Young Adult. I suggest if you like this book, you will like other Caroline B. Cooney books such as, Twins and Driver's Ed.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who Killed Alice's Father?, April 27, 2006

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Courtney Rabideau (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wanted! (Mass Market Paperback)

Alice's parents had been divorced for a while. Alice wants to spend some time with her father so she goes to live with him for a couple of days.

One day when school is off for the day Alice gets a phone call from her father while she is doing her nails. Her father asks her to take a file marked T.W.I.N., take his car and drive to a place that they used to get milkshakes. She does not want to do this because she is only 15 but she agrees. Several minuets later she hears somebody come into the condo that her father lives in. At first she is relieved thinking it is her father, but soon realizes that it is not. She hides under her father's car as she hears a big thump and the computer start up. Then she hears a man say in a voice she half recognizes that "I killed him good." She does not know what he is talking about, but thinks it dealt with the big thump.

After the guy left she went to the place where she and her father went to get milkshakes and is too crazed to do anything for a while. A while later she gets a coke and a milkshake and goes back to the car. She turns the car on so she can listen to the radio and that is when she learns that her father is dead and she is the prime suspect.

This leads to Alice hightailing it out of the ice cream place trying to stay one step ahead of the police and the real person that killed her father. Because she wants to evade the police and the person who killed her father she goes from the mall, to a college campus, to the house of her father's work colleague, to her father's condo to the house of her mother's boyfriend.

While on the lamb she manages to read what was on the TWIN disk that her father wanted. It is an autobiography that details Mark Robie's (Alice's father) life. It also talks a lot about his brother who worked getting company secrets from competitors. According to her father his brother was killed by his boss because he was going to tell what he was doing.

So who killed Alice's father? What Happens to Alice? Read Wanted and find out

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wanted!, May 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Wanted! (Mass Market Paperback)

"Wanted!" by Caroline B. Cooney is a fast, action-packed book similar to a movie. If you like murder mysteries, full of suspense, then you'll definately love this book. This book involves car chases, threatening phone calls, and the fear of not knowing what or who is going to strike in the next sentence. Alice Robie lives with her divorced father, while her mother lives in another section of town. One day Alice receives a strange phone call from a man, who claims to be her dad. It doesn't sound much like him, but she believes him. He tells her to meet him at their favorite ice cream shop along the Salmon River, in Connecticut. He also gives her careful instructions to take the Corvette, her father's prized possession. Alice is very suspicious, as her father would NEVER let her drive the Corvette before this point in time, even if she had had her driver's license, which she does not. Just as she is about to get into the shiny red Corvette, she hears the condo's front door unlatch and open with a shove. It sounds as if something heavy is being dragged across the floor, and then there is a yell, and a THUMP!, and silence. She quickly crawls underneath the Corvette as the sound of feet approach the one-car garage. She waits and hears some noises, like the sound of keys on a keyboard being pressed, some feet, and then the front door shuts, and she hears a car pulling away. Alice quickly opens the garage door and pulls the red Corvette out onto the street, knocking over a neighbor's clay planter. She arrives at the ice cream shop, which is now closing up for the day, the time being 5:00 PM. Alice, in a frenzy, turns on the radio and the music calms her down. Suddenly, a news bulletin comes on. "At approximately 4:30 PM, on Lake View Drive, Mr. Robie was murdered." Alice shrieks. "The murderer was seen to have driven away from the scene of the crime in a....bright....red....Corvette." Frantically, she turns off the radio, hops out of the car, rushes over to the pay phone, inserts twenty-five cents, and dials her mother's number. "Hello?" Her mother answers. "Mom!" Alice screams. "Alice, dear! Alice, we know. I got your e-mail with the confession in it....it's all right dear, you must have been terribly mad....we know you killed your father."