The Fall of Lisa Bellow
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"What happens to the girl left behind? When a masked man with a gun enters a sandwich shop in broad daylight, Meredith Oliver suddenly finds herself ordered to the filthy floor, cowering face-to-face with her nemesis, Lisa Bellow, the most popular girl in her eighth grade class. Lying there, Meredith is utterly convinced she is going to die. Then the man orders Lisa Bellow to stand and come with him, leaving Meredith the girl left behind."--Book jacket.
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I'll post a full review later, but in the meantime I found this to be a gripping read. The primary point of view (we also hear from her mother) is that of Meredith Oliver, an 8th grade girl who has a mysterious connection to a classmate, Lisa Bellow, who is abducted.
Meredith Oliver is on the floor at the Deli Barn, next to Lisa Bellow, the most popular girl in school, and there's a gun pointed at them both. The gunman tells Lisa to come with him, and he drives away, with Lisa.
The author did what I thought would be impossible: she wrote an immensely captivating story from the point-of-view of the person that got away.
There are lots of other small but equally powerful storylines in this book—a baseball-proficient brother who is hit in the eye with a ball and goes partially blind, a mom who isn't comfortable with her role or her life, Lisa's friends who oddly become Meredith's friends—and it makes for a wonderful novel.
