Missing Pieces
Published on 16. June 2015
196 pages
978-1-5040-1129-7 (ISBN)
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Jessie's father has always been a missing piece of her life-but if she were to find him, how would he feel about her?
Jessie Wells thinks four is a good number. Things with four sides are sturdy and strong. A box, a chair, a room with four walls. But ever since the day Jessie's dad left, Jessie, her mother, and Aunt Zis have been a triangle-three-sided, though solidly linked.
Jessie has heard the story: Her beautiful young mother had married a prince who disappeared one day, so she had raised her daughter with the help of Aunt Zis. But lately, the picture in Jessie's mind seems incomplete. Who is James Wells?she wonders. He must be more than just a deadbeat dad who deserted his wife and child, and Jessie is determined to find out, even if she has to call every Wells in the phone book-and there are a lot of them.
But if Jessie finds her father and asks him all her questions, will she like the answers?
Jessie Wells thinks four is a good number. Things with four sides are sturdy and strong. A box, a chair, a room with four walls. But ever since the day Jessie's dad left, Jessie, her mother, and Aunt Zis have been a triangle-three-sided, though solidly linked.
Jessie has heard the story: Her beautiful young mother had married a prince who disappeared one day, so she had raised her daughter with the help of Aunt Zis. But lately, the picture in Jessie's mind seems incomplete. Who is James Wells?she wonders. He must be more than just a deadbeat dad who deserted his wife and child, and Jessie is determined to find out, even if she has to call every Wells in the phone book-and there are a lot of them.
But if Jessie finds her father and asks him all her questions, will she like the answers?
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Norma Fox Mazer
Missing Pieces
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05/1995
HarperCollins
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Norma Fox Mazer (1931-2009) was an acclaimed author best known for her children's and young adult literature. She earned numerous awards, including the Newbery Honor for
After the Rain, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for
Dear Bill, Remember Me?, and the Edgar Award for
Taking Terri Mueller. Mazer was also honored witha National Book Award nomination for
A Figure of Speechand inclusion in the notable-book lists of the American Library Association and the
New York Times, among others.
Content
- Cover Page
- Praise for the Writing of Norma Fox Mazer
- Title Page
- One: The Disappearing Dude
- Two: The Tiniest Punctuation Mark in the World
- Three: Worlds and Anti-Worlds
- Four: Love-Hate Relationship
- Five: The D Zone
- Six: My Little Secret
- Seven: Unmentionable Acts
- Eight: Jealous Eyes
- Nine: Buckets of Sound, Lakes and Oceans
- Ten: Take Two Aspirin and Cheer Up
- Eleven: Say It with Conviction
- Twelve: Somebody Good Like Me
- Thirteen: A Large, Grape-Colored Menu
- Fourteen: Jimmy
- Fifteen: Red Flags and Green Garbage Bags
- Sixteen: Flecks of Paint
- Seventeen: Things Too Numerous to Mention
- Eighteen: Station WJES
- Nineteen: In a Heartbeat
- Twenty: Wall of Ice
- Twenty-One: This Is the Air He Breathed
- Twenty-Two: Little Pearls
- Twenty-Three: A Bizarre Layer Cake
- Twenty-Four: Disobedience, Disorder, and Defiance
- Twenty-Five: Monkey Bars
- Twenty-Six: A Storm
- Twenty-Seven: Scared to Death
- Twenty-Eight: Twenty Questions
- Twenty-Nine: The Phone Number
- Thirty: Raspberry Ice Cream
- Thirty-One: Jumping for the Sun
- Thirty-Two: Blue Lake
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
