New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age Girls' Life Magazine, Ten Best Summer Reads Featured in Teen Discussion Groups @ the Library ".flowing prose and vivid characterization.Hawes deliverers a rewarding read." -Publishers Weekly ".behind the kidnapping drama, Hawes' eloquent words reveal complex truths of family love and sorrow." -Booklist "Hawes is excellent on the day-to-day difficulties of caring for a toddler, especially in secret." -Washington Post "Hawes deals poignantly with loss and longing in a novel that is full of disappointment and heartbreak but that in the end offers hope." -The Horn Book