""JacksonтАЩs characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system."" (Publishers Weekly, ""An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List"")
From the critically acclaimed author of┬аAllegedly, Tiffany D. Jackson, comes a gripping novel about the mystery of one teenage girlтАЩs disappearance and the traumatic effects of the truth.
Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparableтАФmore sisters than friends. So when Monday doesnтАЩt turn up for the first day of school, ClaudiaтАЩs worried.
When she doesnтАЩt show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday wouldnтАЩt just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. Not after last yearтАЩs rumors and not with her grades on the line. Now Claudia needs her bestтАФand onlyтАФfriend more than ever. But MondayтАЩs mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and MondayтАЩs sister April is even less help.
As Claudia digs deeper into her friendтАЩs disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that sheтАЩs gone?
Tiffany D. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Allegedly, Monday's Not Coming, Let Me Hear a Rhyme, Grown, White Smoke, The Weight of Blood, and coauthor of Blackout and Whiteout. A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book and Coretta Scott KingтАУJohn Steptoe New Talent Award winner, she received her bachelor of arts in film from Howard University, earned her master of arts in media studies from the New School, and has over a decade of TV and film experience. The Brooklyn native still resides in the borough she loves. You can visit her at www.writeinbk.com.