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Vanishing acts

In Portland, Oregon, between soccer games and beginning seventh grade, twelve-year-old Madison Kincaid and new classmate Jake try to track down her missing best friend, while also helping her attorney father solve a missing-persons case.

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Main Author: Margolin, Phillip
Other Authors: Rome, Ami Margolin
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Missing persons > Juvenile fiction.
Junior high schools > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Soccer > Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
Portland (Or.) > Juvenile fiction.
Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:In Portland, Oregon, between soccer games and beginning seventh grade, twelve-year-old Madison Kincaid and new classmate Jake try to track down her missing best friend, while also helping her attorney father solve a missing-persons case.
Physical Description:169 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience:Ages 8-12.
ISBN:9780061885563 (trade bdg.)
0061885568 (trade bdg.)
Author Notes:Philip Margolin was born in New York City in 1944. He received a bachelor's degree in government from The American University in 1965. From 1965 to 1967, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia. He graduated from New York University School of Law in 1970. From 1972 until 1996, he was in private practice in Portland, Oregon, specializing in criminal defense. He has tried many high profile cases and has argued in the Supreme Court. He was the first attorney to use the battered woman's syndrome defense in a homicide case in Oregon.

His first novel, Heartstone, was published in 1978. He has been a full-time author since 1996. His other works include The Last Innocent Man; Gone, But Not Forgotten; After Dark; The Burning Man; The Undertaker's Widow; Wild Justice; The Associate; Sleeping Beauty; Capitol Murder and Sleight of Hand. He also writes short stories and non-fiction articles in magazines and law journals.

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