Missing Persons League

by Frank Bonham

Book Overview

In a future world of algae diets, sour seas, and oxygen deficiency, a high school boy's search for his missing family leads him into dangerous trouble with the authorities. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590053876
• ISBN13: 9780590053877
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

AMAZING Book!

I read this book for the first time in my 4th grade Tier 4 class and still remember how I felt when I read the last lines. Chills went out all over my body and I was so upset that there wasn't more to the book! Now, 13 years later, I still get chills at the end. The whole book is suspenseful and myseterious... it's just wonderful. The sad thing is that it seems so few people have read it. I recommend EVERYONE reading it. It's a light read, but its incredibly engaging. Frank Bonham has such a wonderfully creative mind! It's funny and brushes on some very serious subjects, this book is the whole package! Also try The Forever Formula (also by Bonham)!

Great Read!!!!!

I read this book when I was 12 or so and loved it(even though I didn't understand It)!Now I have been scouring all the libraries in search of this book(i'm 15 just to mention).I finally looked on the internet and have just ordered it.I always loved the imagery in this book and have started making an animation of this story(I'll ask for permission If I can get enough support to actually finish it!).I think this would be a fantastic movie(If there was a good director[say the one from bladerunner]).If you have never read this book ,I suggest you get it.Please Email me if you think I should finish this animation or to tell me to give up!linkenobi@sbcglobal.net

Echoing others...

I first read this book when I was 11 and I have to echo some others when I say I loved it but perhaps didn't grasp all of it at the time. I recently tracked down a used copy and I am re-reading it right now. I think it is great and would make a great movie, perhaps on the Sci-Fi channel. Does anyone know if this has been made into a movie? Parts of the book may be dated now, but as far as characters and story-telling I think it still holds up.

I read this book so long ago..

And I still remember it today. This is a wonderful science fiction book and worth reading if you can find a copy-I'm just sorry that it's out of print because it was a wonderful story that has stuck with me most of my life.

How could this book go out of print?

I read this book over 15 years ago and have remembered it ever since. The sadness of our earth, so sick and dying because of man's carelessness, would be unbearable if not for the hope, though thousands of years away, of new life. I'm trying to track down this book for my sons, though they are only 5 years old now. I know they'll enjoy it themselves in about 8 - 10 years. Highly recommend!