The Night I Disappeared

Jamie Tessman is a girl who is slowly losing contact with reality. Her childhood friend, Webb, is taking up more and more of her time and her grades are falling in school. She has to move for a while to Chicago where her mother, who is a lawyer, is involved in a major case for the defense.

Jamie begins to spend more and more time "zoning out," eventually resulting in one trip to the emergency room when she crashes a bike she is riding, and another trip when no one seems to be able to bring her out of wherever she is and back to "reality."

Her friend's mother is a psychiatrist and works with Jamie to try and find out what is causing her "spells", but sometimes finding out the reason for something may open up a Pandora's box of troubles.

This is another really good young adult novel, a well written mystery that is also a psychological novel at the same time. Definitely one you will want to read.

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