Twice Taken

by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Book Overview

It seems incredible that a call-in TV show featuring pictures of missing children could change her life so drastically, but when a 16-year-old recognizes her father in the photo on the screen, she discovers that the family who's been searching for their daughter is looking for her. But who is she? Brooke or Amy? She's been living with her father and now learns he's taken her illegally. Who do you love when everyone says they love you? How can anyone...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044091129X
• ISBN13: 9780440911296
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Twice Taken

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 con

The Best Book Ever!!

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!!!

The BEST book I ever read!!

You have to read this book, it's the BEST. The book makes you start thinking about your own family. If you read this book I will bet you, you'll read it again.

A Great Book!!!

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.

A young girl wants to find out the truth of her life.

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.