Taking Terri Mueller
by Norma Fox Mazer
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Fourteen-year-old Terri remembers only life with her father, but then she discovers that he kidnapped her from her mother after a divorce and that her mother is still alive.Tags
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meggyweg Clay is a much more realistic take on family abduction in my opinion.
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As always, Mazer has teen-agers down cold, and their voices are authentic and clear in this novel. Terri Mueller is an ordinary girl until she starts asking her father too many questions about her dead mother. Discovering that her father had kidnapped her after a custody battle changes her life, and the reader is right there with her every step of the way. One of my favorite young adult books.
Interesting exploration of what happens when a teenager finds out her father kidnapped her from her mother, and that her mother is really alive. I enjoyed the book but am sad that so many children are abducted from the custodial parent. This story is well written and one that is difficult to put down.
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Author Information
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Norma Fox Mazer was born in New York City on May 15, 1931. She studied at Antioch College and at Syracuse University. She contributed first-person articles to pulp magazines like True Confessions and True Story. Her first juvenile novel, I, Trissy, was published in 1971. She wrote more than 30 books during her lifetime including Dear Bill, show more Remember Me?, Summer Girls, Love Boys, and Other Short Stories, Silver, Out of Control, A Figure of Speech, and Good Night, Maman. She won numerous awards including a Newbery Honor in 1988 for After the Rain, an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1982 for Taking Terri Mueller, a Christopher Award, and an ALAN Award. From 1997 to 2006, she taught writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She died of brain cancer on October 17, 2009 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Taking Terri Mueller
- Original publication date
- 1981
- People/Characters
- Terri Mueller
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .M47398 .T — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English, Finnish, German, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 3
