The Night I Disappeared

by Julie Reece Deaver

Book Overview

HELD HOSTAGE BY AN INNER WORLD Something scary is happening to seventeen-year-old Jamie Tessman. Ever since she and her mother arrived in Chicago, she's been plagued by freaky mind-slips and vivid... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743439791
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.7" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

A suspenseful, realistic, psychological novel.

Jamie has been friends with Webb for eight years, since she was nine. He understands her better than anybody else does. He even saved her life, which is how they first met.Now Webb is back-packing through Europe, and Jamie has to spend the summer in Chicago with her mother, who is the defense attorney for a girl accused of killing a child molestor. Jamie misses Webb very much, and the case her mother is working on troubles her in ways she doesn't understand. She starts doing weird things. For example, she daydreams about Webb a lot, losing track of where she is, and runs her bike into a parked car before she comes back to reality. Her mom has to leave the case she's working on to go to the emergency room.Jamie's mom is worried about her, but Jamie says she's fine. Her mother seems to believe this more than Jamie does and Jamie is getting scared. Sometimes she can't help daydreaming about Webb, as if she gets lost in her own mind. And then she discovers that when she's daydreaming about him, she's talking out loud to him --- pretty humiliating when she's in public!While she's in the emergency room Jamie meets Morgan, a girl her own age, and for the first time she has another friend besides Webb. Morgan thinks Jamie should talk to her aunt, who is a psychiatrist. Jamie knows she has a little problem, but believes she's handling it and doesn't need a shrink. Then circumstances get beyond her control, and she ends up not only talking to Morgan's aunt, but strapped to a bed in a psychiatric ward.This book is not spooky science fiction about mind-controlling computers or aliens. It's a suspenseful, realistic, psychological novel with touches of genuine humor about the mind's ability to protect itself from things too terrible to remember. Jamie is a spunky, intelligent, and mature young girl who, on the threshold of the rest of her life, has been rendered incapable of living it until she can deal with her past. Read this book to unravel the mystery of a day that splintered Jamie's world, to learn who Webb is, and to find out how Jamie gets on with her life. ---(...)

a gritty story of mental illness

Jamie is a 17-year-old girl who finds herself living in a fantasy world she can't escape. She (and we) don't know what is real in her life and what isn't. It isn't until she seeks help from a compassionate psychiatrist (the doctor in Deaver's Say Goodnight, Gracie) that she begins to piece together memory fragments of an event that shattered her mind when she was nine. As serious as the story is, there are flashes of humor and teen insight. My students loved this book!

One of the greatest books I've ever read!!!

This book was awesome! Once I picked it up I didn't stop till I finished it!!! Sure, it's a small book, 200 or so pages, but it definitely doesn't leave you empty handed. You certainly do not want to miss out on a great book like this, I would suggest you buy it right way, don't wait! You'll be missing out on a great book if you don't!!!!

When a teen's mind shatters...

This fast read is a scary thriller about a seventeen year old girl named Jamie whose mind is splintered by a frightening event in her past. With the help of a caring doctor, she slowly figures out what happened to her one night when she was only nine years old. An excellent novel for teens!

spine tingling!...

at first it looks like Jamie is a normal teenager who just doesn't fit in at school, then some strange things start happening to her and you realize she is slowly falling apart. You will want to keep reading to find out what caused her problems. this is a great mystery!