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Wanted by Caroline B. Cooney
Alice Robie is a 15 year old girl. She was visiting her father during one of her “custody weekends”. She gets a strange call from her father telling her to drive his most prized car, Corvette, which he wouldn’t let anyone touch. In the book it said that was one reason why her parents were divorced because her mother thought he loved the car more than her. Her father told her to get two disks and drive to where they eat ice cream most of the time. In my opinion I felt that the main character took to long to complete this task. But before she could live the house a strange yet familiar person invades her looking for the disk her father told her to bring. Fortunately she was hiding with the disk under the …show more content…

She steals book bag and leaves. She runs away to a university. Alice asks a girl for a ride to get close to where the computer lab would be. When Alice final makes to the computer lab she realizes she needs a student ID but doesn’t have one. Luckliy a group of boys are walking down hall. When they finally reach her she asks if they could open the door for her since she “forgot to get hers”. She notices that one of the boys was familiar. Paul who use to go to her school, they had a short conversation but he didn’t recognize her.
Anyway, Alice gets on a computer in the back of the lab and starts to look for the email “she sent to her mother”. The email was written exactly how she would write and email to someone; lowercase letters, signed ally, no dear…. and she even believed that she committed the crime. Then she put in the disk that her father wanted her to bring. She reads about her father and his brother but the information is not enough to find out who could possible kill her father. Soon she has to leave and she decides to print out the document. Once the document is printed out, she leaves, lucky for her she doesn’t need to use a student ID to exit the lab. She meets up with Paul and she tries to get rid of him. Fortunately, she gets a place where she can sleep over for the night. When morning hits the radio is on and the owner of the room is in the bathroom probably listening

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