1-800-Where-R-You?-When Lightning Strikes

When Lightning Strikes was the book that I read as one of my independent reading books. This book is written by Meg Cabot. In this book Jessica Mastarini, a girl whose plays the flute in Orchestra and gets detention because of fights on a daily basis, gets struck by lightning giving her the ability to find lost people. I choose this book because sister and mother told me to and I had just finished the Maximum Ride series and honestly, I had nothing to read.

In this book, Jess and her friend Ruth are walking home from school when it starts to rain. So they do something oyu should never do in a thunderstorm, they decided to hide under metal bleachers. That's when Jess gets the ability to find people, only she doesn't know it yet. After a few days, she has made some calls to an organization called 1-800-Where-R-You and told them where to find some missing children. After that the government gets involed and takes her to a military base that is supossed to be shut down. Jess then finds out that one of the boys that she rescued was in the care of his abusive dad while his mom is in jail for kidnapping him away when he was 6. She decides that it is all her fault and she is goin g to fix it. Jess wanted to help kids become found but one particular rescue backfires so she is determined to help fix it. You will have to read it yourself to find out more.

Two things that I liked about this book was that once you got into the book, it was hard to put it down. Another thing that I liked was that it was that all except for being struck by lightning and getting into trouble with the feds, the characters wwnt through problems with friends, school and family isuses like most of us do so it's pretty easy to relate to them. Two things that I didn't like was that the begining was slow so it took a while to get into the book. Another thing that I wasn't so fond of was that descrimination between upper townsmen and rural people int he same town. Tjis is appropriate for teens. I would reccomend it to a fiend because it is very good once you get into it.