Girl, Missing gets into full swing immediately, no messing around with backgrounds or character development - the first page tells us all we need to know. Lauren Matthews is fourteen and knows she is adopted but becomes suddenly curious when she has to write a school essay called "Who am I?" and her parents become cagey and withold imformation. Lauren decides to try and find out where she came from herself with the help of the internet, a missing childrens website and her best friend, Jam. Lauren and Jam end up on an adventure that takes them to America where they find themselves on the run.
Although it was clearly aimed at the younger end of the YA spectrum, it still had it share of excitement and was a very pacey book with plenty of cliffhangers at the end of chapters.
I think I would be interested enough to check out McKenzie's other books The Set Up and Blood Ties look interesting.
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