Sam has a non-traditional family. His parents are gone, and he lives with his grandfather, Mack. One day, he finds a newspaper clipping in the attic. Unfortunately, Sam can't read. He can only tell that it's a picture of him as a child, and that is has the word missing. He begins to wonder if Mack is really his grandfather after all. He enlists the help of Caroline, the new girl in school, to work with him on a class project. He hopes that when they get to his attic, she will be able to read the clipping and solve the mystery.
Overall, this was a pretty disappointing read for me. It might be because I listened to it, and the reader was really dry. Very little inflection in her voice, so perhaps if I had read the print version I would have felt differently. This is marketed as a mystery, but the plot had very little tension, and the resolution was just kind of what you think it's going to be. Not a bad story about friendship, family, etc., but not what I expected.
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