Vanish By: Karen Spafford-Fitz

New Town, New School, New Friends
Book Review #4

   Simone just moved to a new town. She is having troubles making new friends. On the first day of her of her Kindergarten Mentor class she doesn't want to be there, she just wants to disappear. Simone is paired up with a young boy named Yuri. Aaron is paired up with Lily, who wanted to be with a girl mentor. Simone comes up with this good idea to combine with Aaron and Lily, so they work as one big group.

   Lily asks Simone to play with her at the playground after class. Simone goes and meets all of the Kindergartens parents.Simone gets many of the parents numbers, that way she can go babysit eventually. But something is different about Lily's mom Rachel. She shows no emotion and seems like she is hiding something. Later in the week Curriculum Night comes around and Simone meets Lily's dad Blake. She is not happy with him, based on what Rachel has told her. From skipping times to see Lily's to not contacting Lily in over 2 weeks, she was not pleased. Simone doesn't know the whole truth though.

   Lily and Simone become really close. They are best friends, then something tragic happens. Lily and Rachel are missing. Nobody knows where they went. Simone thinks that Blake had something to do with this whole thing The person who took her doesn't seem like the kind of person to do something like that.