Missing

by Cathy MacPhail

Book Overview

Maxine's older brother Derek has disappeared and is believed to be dead. The family is overwhelmed with grief. Maxine suffers in school, loses friends and is losing the interest of her parents. Then... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439754690
• ISBN13: 9780439754699
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.,
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Missing GT Book Review

Missing by Catherine Macphail is a suspense novel about a girl, Maxine, who feels left alone in her world. Her brother Derek disappeared one day, and he was found dead a few months later. The father approved that the body was his son's, and that was what it was left to. The body was buried, and everybody just kind of went on with things, except her mom, dad, and a boy named Sweeney who had been bullying Derek before his death. Maxine's parents were always lingering over Derek, Derek, Derek. Her mother was very emotional about it, and her dad tried to accept the death and move on. Maxine was angry that her mom was always talking about him, and never taking the time to ask Maxine how her day was or even just how she was. Then, it started to become weird, Maxine started to get phone calls from someone who claimed to be Derek. She was always frightened because she did not want her mom to receive the call and become even more worried about his death. Maxine thought that it was either a stupid prank, or Derek had never really died. One time, the caller told Maxine to meet him in the cemetery of his grave, or Derek's grave. Maxine followed the directions at the exact time, but invited one of her close guy friends, Cam, to join her. When she arrived at the cemetery, she found Cam being beaten by Sweeney and laughed at. Maxine approached and told them to back up. She attempted to stand up for herself and Cam, but then Sweeney took her by the hair and threw her to the ground. Derek finally showed up! It wasn't a ghost or a prank, it was her brother. He scared them off just with his presence there, when they thought he was still dead. Everybody thought he was dead. He conversed with Maxine about how it will be for him back home with his parents. She explained everything, and they became a normal family again. Derek owed a lot to Maxine for accepting him back into the household and following his directions to go to the cemetery. I enjoyed this book very much, and I request it to anybody who is anticipating a novel that will make you want to read from cover to cover in no time.

Missing

One wonderful book that kept me reading was a book called Missing by Catherine Macphail. This book is about a girl, her missing brother and her beserk parents! Her supposedly missing brother is dead or they think he is dead but the sister keeps getting wierd creepy phonecalls from a guy who says he is Derek, the "dead" brother.Do you think Derek is really alive or do you think its jusst a phony just trying to scare her. I liked this book because it always made me not want to put it down and it was very interesting.Read Missing to find out what happens to Derek and his creeped out sister.

Missing by Catherine Macphail

This book is an awsome book, Its about this girl Maxine, who is 13 years old, her brother Derik runs away and know she feels like that all her mom and dad care about. When Maxine finds out that her brother is dead, she thinks that maybe her parents will finally forget about it, but they don't. What happens is for some reason Maxine's mom thinks Derik is still there but he isn't, and her father thinks Maxine mom is going crazy. Well Maxine starts getting these werid phone call, she can't deside if its a bully out to get her,or if it is acually her brother. When Maxine and her friend Cam go to his grave she noitices that there is a phone booth not even 5 feet away, now Maxine is kinda wondering if it actually is her brother. But Maxine can't trust her family anough to tell them. But when Maxine trys to talk to her dad about the phone calls her fathers dose not beleive her. Will Maxine ever be able to figure out who is one the other line of the phone calls or will her family ever love her as much before Derik left. Read this book and find out!

missing

The book I just finished was very good. The main character of the book is Maxine Moody. Maxine Moody is a young girl at the age of 13. She feels that she is really lonely because her brother was taking over everything and now she is sorta happy that she gets some attention because her brother is dead. She is very happy that her brother is dead because she thought she would get more attention but her mom doesn't pay much attention to her because she thinks her son, who's name is Derek, is still with her so she still doesn't pay much attention to her. Her father pays little attention to her. Maxine has been getting these funny phone calls from a person who is acting as her brother. Well atleast that is what she is thinking. So she and her friend goes to see his grave and there is a pay phone about ten stones down. Now she is believing that her brother is really calling her and that is how far I am in the book.

A realistic, absorbing story

Maxine's older brother has disappeared and after months of agony a body confirms his death - but her mother turns to psychics for solace and the family seems to be drifting apart. When she begins getting phone calls from someone who claims to be her brother, Maxine finds herself alone in searching for the truth. A realistic, absorbing story.