Vanished

I am reading Vanished by Marc Tyler Nobleman. Vanished has a new story each chapter. The chapters are about people that have been kidnapped or just disappeared. I don't really want to have a connection with this book but I do. The first chapter is about this 7-year-old girl who gets kidnapped and the kidnappers keep her in a abandoned house that people think the house is haunted. She is trapped there over night while her family mourns over her disappearance. The next morning she find a way to get out and she gets rescued by to kids that were just playing around that house then heard her cries of help. She and the kids won an award for being brave.

I can connect with this 7-year-old kid because one time I almost got kidnapped and it is really scary. It was around 6:00 though and her kidnapping was when she was walking home from school with her little sister. When I almost got kidnapped me and Georgia were in third grade and we were having a sleep-over. Her mom said we could go outside until dinner. We were telling scary stories to each other, I was telling her about the frightening story "Claws." Then a white car with a black car bra came and stopped driving right next to where we were standing then the man in the car yelled, "HEY KIDS," amazed and worried I stood there and couldn't budge. Thankfully Georgia yanked me along and told me to run. So I followed her. We started to run and the car kept moving to stay next to us. This was the scariest part. Next I told Georgia to hide behind the trash can coming up. She dove behind it and I followed right after her. The man in the car thought we turned the corner and he kept going around. When ran inside and we told Georgia's mom, Brenda, what happened. She called the police and reported him. The next night I got a call, my mom answered it and told me it was for me. I picked it up, it was the police. He told me he went over to Georgia's house and asked her some questions about the car and the person inside it. He asked me all kinds of questions.

I couldn't imagine actually being kidnapped. I couldn't imagine how her family felt too. I bet it feels like a temporary death in the family. But I can't imagine how she felt after the kidnappers car drove away. The police found out who the kidnappers were and they got thrown in jail. If I didn't give away too much of the book I would recommend this book to whoever is reading my post.