Missing Pieces

The book I have read is called Missing pieces, written by Norma Fox Mazer. The most interesting part of this book is that when the 14-year-old girl, Jessie, after years of anxiety, starts to track down her father who walked out of the family when she was a baby. In addition, her conflicts with her mother would touch many people¡¦s hearts, as her emotions are very realistic and would echo with our emotions.

The most important character in the book is Jessie Wells, a 14-year-old girl whose father walked out of her family when she was a baby. Her family¡¦s incompleteness made her to seem more mature and heavy hearted than normal 14-year-old, she collects ¡§D words¡¨ because they ¡§dominant in doom and gloom¡¨(Mazer 24). She is unique and wants to be identified, as she claimed that ¡§don¡¦t call me a teenager, I¡¦m a person¡¨ (Mazer117). She follows her will and sometimes can be describes as stubborn too, even though her mother forbids her from finding her father, sh...