Wanted! | Caroline B. Cooney

Wanted! | Caroline B. Cooney | In an emergency....

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Wanted!

	Wanted! Caroline B. Cooney Scholastic Paperbacks, 1997 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 113 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

When her father is murdered and the police obtain an e-mail confession that implicates her, Alice Robie realizes she will have to flee and prove her innocence. Original."

awsome book

It was an awsome mysterie with a pretty simple ending, but thats not the point! it makes you think one thing than another and then it finally tells you the answer after this big dangerouse adventer that the main character goes on, escaping for cops and even her freinds!

In an emergency....

What would you do if your father frantically called and gave you specific instructions to follow, including driving his Bronco when you are just fifteen and don't yet have your license? Alice dallies and soon someone comes into her house talking about killing.

From this point on, Alice's inherent strength for survival kicks in and she acts on adrenalin. Hiding under her father's Bronco saves her the first time. There are many more to go. She hears on the radio that she is wanted by the police for the murder of her father. Apparently, Alice sent an email to the police confessing the murder, but of course Alice knows better. Her mother's radio/television statement seems accusatory. What is Alice to do? Where is Alice to go?

This is the set up for the story. Most of the novel has Alice confronting one set of dangers after another. Not that she is a superhero, she uses every wile, every subtlety in eluding police and the real killer. People who trust unknowingly help her find shelter and hiding without knowing that is what they are doing. What is most important is that she has an all-important disk that apparently contains secrets key to the revelation of the murderer.

How the story unfolds in the last quarter is fast-paced and surprising. I think the point is to show how we often do not know people around us and how often we do not open up to those we love.

Wanted: freedom from hidden pasts and ability to show love.

Caroline B. Cooney is a very popular young adult writer. This book makes the fourth I've read and quite enjoy, but it is not on the level of adult fiction. If a movie, it would be PG.

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Teen on the Run

One afternoon, Alice's father phones her, sounding strange, and tells her to take a specific computer disk and drive his Corvette to meet him at an ice-cream place. He hangs up before Alice can get any more information. She is torn--she can't believe her father would ever actually encourage her to drive without a license, and he especially wouldn't want her to drive his beloved Corvette. She dawdles and considers and finally decides to do as he asked. While in the garage preparing to take the car, though, she hears the voice of a strange man in the house, who is looking for a disk and who talks about having killed someone.

Alice hides under the car until the house is empty again, then tries to pretend to herself that everything is okay. She drives to the place where she is supposed to meet her father, and waits for a very long time for him to arrive. Then she hears on the radio the horrifying news--her father has been murdered and she is the prime suspect. A description of her and of the car are included in the news broadcast.

Suddenly Alice is a fugitive. She phones her mother, who tells her she received an emailed confession from Alice. Even worse, she seems to believe that Alice actually would be capable of killing her own father. Alice can't go home to a woman who thinks she is guilty of murder, so she goes on the run. Now Alice must avoid police and everyone else looking for her, while she tries to figure out what is so important about her father's computer disk and who would be willing to kill him to get it.

I liked the ingenuity of Alice in finding ways out of bad situations. She managed to eat, sleep, and hide for much longer than would seem possible. I liked the ending of the story, although I saw it coming.

The police in this story seemed terribly inept. They should have been able to track Alice down when she stayed so close to home, and they should have handled the whole situation better.

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Wanted

Wanted

By Caroline Cooney

I enjoyed the book, Wanted, very much. It kept me on my toes a lot of the time not knowing what Alice was going to do about her father dying and everyone thinking it was her. Alice went many places when she heard that on the radio her father had been murder and she was the leading suspect. The author did a good job not giving away any on Alice's next movie or what she decided to do about her problems. For example when she was on the run from the police she just didn't stick at one place she went many, the mall, and girls dorm and so on. It became more and more suspenseful as you kept reading.

The things I dislike very much so was the ending. It thought it should have been a lot longer and explains more about the events before Alice's father died. When Alice read her dad's file TWIN and discovers more hiding secrets about her family should have been brought out more. The ending could have explained more of what happened after it was all over also. People might get a little bit confused on what's really going on.

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