Taking Terri Mueller
This is a story about a young girl living with her father after the death of her mother in a car accident when Terri was four years old. She's devoted to her father; they move often.
The reason for the frequent moving becomes clear when Terri finds out that her mother did not die in any car accident. Actually, Terri was abducted by her father when he and her mother were getting a divorce. The book deals with her slowly learning about that and then wanting to make contact with her mother even though it could mean her father would get in trouble with the law.
The story deals with something far too real in this world, and that is one parent kidnapping a child. As the author notes some 25,000 children are abducted each year and kept from their other parent, usually being taken by the father. The book does a good job examining how Terri grows to question what is going on and how she goes about trying to find out the truth.
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