Vanishing Girls
Readers rate it 3.5 (33 on Hardcover)
357 pages · Released 2015 · HarperCollins Publishers
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Vanishing Girls is a realistic mystery thriller about two estranged sisters and a missing child, exploring trauma, family conflict, and identity. The story deals with mature themes like dissociative disorders and psychological distress, though without graphic depictions. It's best suited for older teens who can handle emotional complexity and darker subject matter.
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Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasing... Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it's too late. In this edgy and compelling novel, Lauren Oliver creates a world of intrigue, loss, and suspicion as two sisters search to find themselves, and each other. Sisters Dara and Nick are inseparable until a tragic accident changes everything. When a little girl goes missing, Nick uncovers secrets that lead to finding her own lost self. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and alcohol use.
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- Dissociative disorders
- Sisters
- Juvenile fiction
- Missing children
- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings
- JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance
- JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women
- Young adult fiction
- Traffic accidents
- Life change events
- Family
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ISBN 9780062224101 · HarperCollins Publishers