When Lightning Strikes

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Summary: 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU #1:When Lightning Strikes
Review: While Jessica Mastriani is walking home from school she gets hit by lightning. At first, she doesn't even notice it, but then the next morning she wakes up and she all of a sudden knows where two kids from the milk carton are. After checking it out to see if it's true she calls 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU. The next day she knows where two more kids are just from looking at their pictures. After a few days these two federal agents come looking for her and ask her to go with them to an army base for testing. She goes there and when she finds out that they want to use her powers to find fugitives she isn't too sure she wants to. The reason she's not sure is because of Sean Patrick O'Hanahan. He was the first kid she found, and he begged her not to tell. When she finds out what happened to Sean she immediately blames herself, so when he goes missing again she decides to help him out. But the government isn't going to let her out of there that easy. This was a great book and it was really interesting how the narrator wasn't really telling us her story, but the people at the army base. This series, like The Mediator, is going to be very good.

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Summary: a lot better then I expected
Review: While the story of a teenager with superpowers is getting a little over done, Jenny Caroll makes this story a winner becuase of her fantastic protagonist, Jessica Mastriani a proud tomboy who loved playing the flute and riding on motercycles with equal passion. Other characters like Doug, Ruth and Roy are pleasant departures from the typical cliches in teen books. Also caroll's writing is above par. I'm looking foward to reading the sequal.