Sister, Missing (Volume 1)

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Cousins Ellen and Harlan have been forced to go on a family camping trip – the worst timing ever, because they’re in a huge fight. Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks. Home > verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{

Later, Lauren's adoptive parents tell her they adopted her believing she was Sonia's child, without realizing she had been kidnapped. Nonetheless, they are accused of abduction and taken to prison. Missing her adoptive family terribly, Lauren argues with Annie, claiming that Annie doesn't love her. Annie replies that she almost killed herself after Lauren went missing. Curious about her birth parents, 14-year-old Lauren Matthews goes on Missing-Children.com and finds a US American girl named Martha Lauren Purditt who went missing less than two months before Lauren was adopted; she becomes suspicious that she is Martha. A few days later, she finds a diary containing details about her adoption and the name Sonia Holtwood.Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments It's two years after the events of Girl, Missing and life is not getting any easier for sixteen-year-old Lauren, as exam pressure and a recent family tragedy take their toll. Lauren's birth mother takes Lauren and her two sisters on holiday in the hope that some time together will help, but a few days into the holiday one of the sisters disappears, under circumstances very similar to those in which Lauren was taken years before. Can Lauren save her sister, and stop the nightmare happening all over again?

While with Glane, Lauren discovers that Martha's parents were Annie and Sam Purditt, who live in Evanport. Glane offers to take her there. After Lauren speaks with the Purditts, Annie is the only one who believes her story, while the others are skeptical. They take a DNA test, which confirms they're related.

Lauren has always known she was adopted but when a little research turns up the possibility that she was snatched from an American family as a baby, suddenly Lauren’s life seems like a sham. How can she find her biological parents? And are her adoptive parents really responsible for kidnapping her? She manages to persuade her family to take a trip across the Atlantic where she runs away to try and find the truth. But the circumstances of her disappearance are murky and Lauren’s kidnappers are still at large and willing to do anything to keep her silent… After persuading her family to go on a holiday to the United States, [ where?] Lauren and her friend James (AKA "Jam") sneak off and meet with Taylor Tarsen, the owner of the agency that handled Lauren's adoption. He refuses to show Lauren her adoption file, but when Lauren mentions Sonia Holtwood, Taylor informs her Sonia looked after her prior to adoption.