Books with title Missing Dad!

This fourth book in the Cascade Mountain Railroad Mysteries series, based on a page from American history, follows a trio of mischievous and determined young crime solvers.It is 1926 in the remote camp town of Scenic, Washington, and ten-year-old Billy Cole is excited about the upcoming Fall Fish Fry fishing tournament and a visit from his cousin, Mim. But his enthusiasm is dampened by news that someone in the camp is a thief. Food, money, an overcoat, and a pair of binoculars have all been stolen. Now Billy, Mim, and Billy’s best friends Dannie and Finn decide it is up to them to catch the thief!Anne Capeci’s conclusion to this fast-paced historical series offers young readers a satisfying mystery, well-drawn characters, and an authentic portrait of the rough and tumble life of a western camp town in the 1920s.

Phillip was gone. He had been Miranda's best friend. She couldn't get over thinking about how he had gone out to sea in that boat and never returned. Not that it was atypical in this tiny village on the Oregon Coast that made a living out of fishing and fishermen. But when a bottle washes ashore, a tiny glass float, Miranda can't help but keep it next to her bed. It makes her think of him. She likes to imagine he put a note in it for her, a note in a bottle, so that maybe someday he will come back to her.But then she hears his voice. She thinks she must be going crazy or imagining things. Never is she more shocked to look down and see a tiny figure in the bottle who couldn't be more than three inches tall. Is that Phillip? How could it be possible? She must be dreaming, or this must be a nightmare.

This fourth book in the Cascade Mountain Railroad Mysteries series, based on a page from American history, follows a trio of mischievous and determined young crime solvers.It is 1926 in the remote camp town of Scenic, Washington, and ten-year-old Billy Cole is excited about the upcoming Fall Fish Fry fishing tournament and a visit from his cousin, Mim. But his enthusiasm is dampened by news that someone in the camp is a thief. Food, money, an overcoat, and a pair of binoculars have all been stolen. Now Billy, Mim, and Billy’s best friends Dannie and Finn decide it is up to them to catch the thief!Anne Capeci’s conclusion to this fast-paced historical series offers young readers a satisfying mystery, well-drawn characters, and an authentic portrait of the rough and tumble life of a western camp town in the 1920s.

MISSING. That's what the posters say about the girl. But this isn't just another missing kid - not for ten-year-old Calvin Crane. After he bumps into a strange guy at Yellowstone Park who's secretly removing the posters, Calvin thinks that their van is being tailed. Getting murdered isn't exactly on the family itinerary.In a cramped van full of farts and Frito-feet with his whiny older sisters, parents, and crabby Grandma Edith, Calvin presses forward on a cross-country road trip to California to attend the wedding of a family friend. But as the search for the missing girl widens state-by-state, Calvin can't escape her haunting face. Neither can he shake the eerie feeling that he's being followed - suspicious-looking people, strange vehicles. Who can he trust? Calvin's parents think it's just his OCD talking.As he learns more details about the missing girl, Calvin is forced to face a search of his own: one for self-acceptance. Sometimes being lost is more than just a matter of location. Still, Calvin can't shut-off those nagging questions: Where is that little girl? Is he being stalked by a kidnapper? Or is his mind playing tricks on him? Does danger lurk just a couple of steps behind?

From Bad to worse... Landslides, a deadly climate, and the increasingly unpredictable weather of Mars make survival nearly impossible, but the most immediate problem facing the Marsport colonists is the dwindling water supply. The group decides to onstruct an automated station in a rift valley where ice accumulated from the atmosphere will be melted and moved through warming pipelines to Marsport. The kids of the Asimov Project participate in the work, but then a fierce storm hits and a team that includes Jenny is isolated and lost. Despite orders not to leave Marsport, Sean puts together a group of kids to go out and find the team. As the race to save the missing colonists becomes increasingly dangerous -- and pits Sean against Amanda and the administration of the colony -- Sean quickly learns that schisms within the social order are almost as deadly as Mars itself.

Having moved around from home to home her whole life, Faith Elvenwood doesn't like to get attached. In fact, in her current school, she has managed to seep beautifully into obscurity, only ever needing to worry about her bully, Reese Grant. With only a little over a month left of her senior year, she thinks she's in the clear.That is, until the school counselor decides Faith would be the best person to show around new student, and fellow senior, Colman Nightingale. So many things don't make sense about this. Why would the counselor want a self-proclaimed loner to be the new kid's introduction to not only the layout of the school, but the social aspect of it? What is this guy doing transferring so close to graduation? How does that even work?Despite trying her darndest to put him off, Cole insists on becoming her friend. Just when Faith decides that it might not be so bad to have a friend, he goes and makes up some grand story about her being the daughter of a fae lord. Yeah right.This is the first book in the Faith in Concordia series. Read the rest:Missing (Book 1)Found (Book 2)Kept (Book 3)

There are two delightful stories contained within Missing! The first one is called Bobby's Pet - two brothers growing up on Connecticut's Long Island Sound. Bobby keeps and raises pets like wild birds, creatures from the sea, and slimy creatures from a nearby pond The second story is about Emily who is four years old. She has never seen an automatic dishwasher before, and discovers the magical things that happen within Grandpa's dishwasher through a wild story told by him.Two delightful stories, appropriate for kids and adults.