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Summary: A young girl wants to find out the truth of her life.
Review: A Young 16 year old girl wants to know what really happened with her father and her mother. So, on a night that she is furious with her father making her babysit her father's girlfriend's litle obnixious little children, she is watching t.v. anc see's someone that looks exactly like her.So, she calls in and claims that the little girl, Amy, is her.
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Summary: Fantastic! You'll want to read it Twice!
Review: Brooke Eastman is babysitting her dad's date's annoying kids, she sends them upstairs to watch a movie and she flips the TV on to a missing children program. She sees and picture of her father 11 years before and little girl, then she realizes that the little girl in the photo is her! She dials the eight-hundred number that is running on the bottom of the screen. She's been living with her father and now she learns that he's taken her illegaly. Read this book to find out what happens next!!
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Summary: The Best Book Ever!!
Review: I read this book three time I was so impressed with it!! The stoy portrays the life of the teenage girl Brooke with a normal life.... until she notices her father's picture on the t.v. show, STILL MISSING. The mother of the child pictured on the screen was searching for her abducted daughter,.... Brooke. Brooke, realizing it was her father and herself pictured on the screen, nervously dials the 800 number. The parents of the missing child were astonished to find that Brooke was in fact, their long, lost daughter. This is the beginning of a story of a lifetime, condensed down into one book. I wish the story never ended!!!
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Summary: I think Twice Taken is sad, and happy... I love it!!
Review: I read Twice Taken by Susan Beth Pfeffer about 7 times and I still can't get enough!!!
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Summary: My review
Review: I thought this book was alright. It was about a girl that was taken by her father. Her mother and father had got a divorce and her father had taken her. Then one night when she was babysitting her father's girlfriend's kids (while her dad was out on a date)she turned on the show "Just Missing" and she regonized her father. So, the mom that was looking for her kid was her mother.
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Summary: Good Book!
Review: I was at a bookfare at my school and I was immediately drawn to this book because of it's title. "Twice Taken". I just had to read the back of the book and so I bought it. I was really satisfied with this book. The author was very good at illustrating details for the reader. I reccommend this book to anyone who likes to read mysteries and thrillers.
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Summary: Good Book!
Review: I was at a bookfare at my school and I was immediately drawn to this book because of it's title. "Twice Taken". I just had to read the back of the book and so I bought it. I was really satisfied with this book. The author was very good at illustrating details for the reader. I reccommend this book to anyone who likes to read mysteries and thrillers.
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Summary: Twice Taken
Review: In this 199 page book entitled Twice Taken, written by Susan Beth Pfeffer, sixteen year old, Amy Michelle Donovan (AKA) Brooke Eastman, has just found out that she was abducted out of her mothers custody by her father during one of his weekend visits when she was five years old. When deprived of a Saturday night out with her friends and the guy of her dreams she is stuck with baby-sitting two of the worst kids in the world. Without the ability of watching cable television she is obligated to watch network television against her own will. When tuning in on a show called Still Missing, she comes to find a picture of her father when he had a mustache and realized that the family on television was looking fro her. Not knowing what the consequences would be, she decides to call the 800 number at the bottom of the screen. Before she knows it she is answerig the door to a couple of police officers. Being escorted to the police station in the squad car she starts to doubt that she is actually Amy Michelle Donovan because she does not want to leave her father alone or get him into any legal troubles. Amy is left under the guardianship of Mrs. Markowitz, Amy's case worker, who put Amy into a foster home for the night until the morning, which was when she is supposed to meet her mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. Girard. Unable to speak to her father Amy starts to feel as if she does not know who she is anymore because of the two different lives that she is now living. As Amy Donovan is forced to live with her mother in Maryville, New Jersey, the Girards hometown, she must become accustomed to her new life style, which is differing in areas of family life to school to her grade level and to making new friends. The important characters is Twice Taken are Amy Michelle Donovon (Brooke Eastman) who is trying to find her true self throughout the entire book. Other main characters are Mr. and Mrs. Girard, who are Amy's birth mother and step-father, whom have been looking for her for the past eleven years not knowing if she was dead or still alive. The final main character is Hal Eastman who is Amy's birth father and also the man who abducted her at the age of five. The one "golden line" that I wish that I had written is, "It's not a competition. I really think if you'd both give me the chance, I could love both of you." (Page 195) The reason that I wish that I could have written that sentence is because it is one of the only moments in the story that Amy actually gets a chance to express her feelings to her mother. She was able to express them without feeling as if she has to respect and watch out for every word that she says to her mother. To me the cover of the book represent sixteen-year-old, Amy Michelle Donovan watching basic television and sighting the picture of her father on television hearing that she was abducted as a child and lied to for so many years. It shows her dialing the 800 number, which was being constantly shown at the bottom of her screen, calling the Still Missing hot-line. The title, Twice Taken, is symbolic to the way that she feels about her life. She describes being twice taken as first being kidnapped by her father as a child and second being abducted away from her father by her mother and step-father. By rating on this book is very high. If I were to give a score from one to ten: I would give it a ten plus. This story is full of suspense and keeps its reader under deep concentration. I would recommend this book to all of my peers because it is an interesting book to read for people who are into family values and the concept of family members sticking together.
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Summary: A unique look at what it means to be a family
Review: Susan Beth Pfeffer's Twice Taken carries overtones of Caroline B. Cooney's The Face on the Milk Carton/Whatever Happened to Janie? and Norma Fox Mazer's Taking Terri Mueller, but it also carries a life of its own. The main thing that sets Twice Taken away from the other two books is that it is mostly about what happens after the discovery, not the actually getting to the truth. Brooke finds out very early that her father has kidnapped her and that her mother is still looking for her, the girl they call Amy Michelle Donovan. Pfeffer chooses to focus on what happens after her mother and stepfather take her back to live with them. Twice Taken is told in the first person, which is fortunate because the reader would be having as big an identity crisis over Brooke/Amy as Brooke does if it were told in third. It's easy to see and understand Brooke's thoughts, but mostly Pfeffer does a good job of making us feel them. Most readers have never been in Brooke's situation, but they can relate strongly to jealous younger half-siblings, feeling left out, or being uncomfortable in a new school or situation. Brooke goes through all the stages you'd expect of someone in that situation: at first, hatred of everything and everyone; then slowly trying to branch out at school, but failing because her story has been so sensationalized; trying to build a relationship with her half brother Tim, who was born after she was taken, and her half sister Holly, who was just a baby then; and mostly, trying to figure out how she feels about her mother. Hardest is her conflict with her parents: she is angry at the way her mother treats her, hovers, and slanders her father, but at the same time she's mad at her father for taking her and depriving her of the chance to get to know her mother. One of the most likable characters, aside from Brooke, is her stepfather Mike. He's reasonable, patient, and a sensible stepfather to her, but at the same time his loyalties are of course with Brooke's mother. Tim and Holly are good foils: Holly is angry all the time and Tim is willing to accept his sister. At the same time, Holly's anger is understandable - her sister shows up after 11 years and gets all the attention, presents, a pet kitten, and a canopy bed. Like Pfeffer's other novels, this one doesn't end happily. Brooke isn't allowed to go back to her father. She's still not comfortable at school, Holly still doesn't like her, and she's still not sure how to get to know her mother. At the same time, there is the final discussion between her and her mother, and the hope that they'll be able to have a relationship one day, one that isn't so forced. The best part is her mother's realization that she will have to accept and like Brooke, and not Amy, the lost child who has been missing for 11 years.
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Summary: A Great Book!!!
Review: The book " Twice Taken" is a really great book. I like how this book gives a real life situation. I also like how Amy can really deal with that kind of thing, like living with some people she once knew but now doesn't remember.
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