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Mazer's novel for young readers, "Taking Terri Mueller" is the most widely read children's book that deals with the subject of Parental Kidnapping. This is saying a lost, considering that there are around 100 children's books that touch on the subject.

The author succeeds in representing the ambiguity of parental kidnapping situations -- avoiding the good guy parent vs. bad guy parent stereotyping that is so common among wriers on this subjects, and among the "experts" on the social problem as well.

The reader is presented with a father who commits parental kidnapping and a mother who is a "left behind" parent. Yet it is revealed that the "bad" act of parental kidnapping by the father followed a planned "relocation" overseas (which is revealed to be unneccary) that would have destroyed child-father access.

The novel is well crafted with genuine literary merit and deserves to be regarded as a "classic" of its type.


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Taking Terri Mueller Avon Flare Book Norma Fox Mazer Books Reviews

I feel that the book "Taking Terri Mueller" was an excellent book and really gives you the feel of how life is after a divorce. If your parents were divorced and you haven't seen your mom or dad in at least 8 years, don't you ever stop to think what might have happened to them? In Terri's case, she should answer this question with a "yes." She was too young at the time to realize the fact that her very own loving father had kidnapped her from her mother. He lied to her and said her mother had died in a car crash when she really was alive and well. When Terri gets older, she realizes she doesn't own one picture of her mother, her father never talks about her, and she doesn't even have her own birth certificate! This is where the tension really starts to build up in the book because then she starts asking her dad questions. She does find out that her father did lie to her and that she needs to get in touch with her mother. She gets her mother's number and goes and visits her across the country. She had never beeen happier to know that she had both of her parents alive. Her only other conflict was the fact that she had to make the choice to live either with her mother or father. She picked her father for good reasons. This book brought tears to my eyes. I enjoyed it.
I had remembered this book from when I was younger and when I saw a copy for sale second-hand, I was curious to see how it held up over time. I only had a vague memory of the plot, just a sense that it had disturbed me when I read it.

Taking Terri Mueller is a book that deals with the very adult issue of custodial kidnapping. Terri finds that her life is strange compared to other children-- constantly moving, no real family. As she gets older, she is less inclined to accept the differences, and starts pushing her father to find out the real story of what had happened to her all those years ago...

Even as an adult, I found it a disturbing book. Mazer does a good job of capturing Terri's mixed loyalties and the difficult intricacies of her situation. My only real concern is the book's refusal to judge the actions of Terri's father. It almost seemed as though Mazer was encouraging us to tacitly accept that he had a fair point of view and that his rightness had not been completely eroded by his actions. I find that very difficult to accept. I realize, however, that her audience is young people who might find themselves in a similar situation and that her purpose is to reach them without judgement.

Recommended.
Throughout most of her life, Terri Mueller has lived alone with her father Phil, constantly moving, constantly readjusting to a new life in some other state. She never thought much of her father's restlessness, just counted herself lucky to have such a doting dad.

But by the time Terri becomes a teenager, she begins to find their vagabond life a little odd. Why can't they stay put like everyone else? And why don't they have an extended family, like her friend Shaundra? Terri does have an aunt, her father's sister Vivian; but Vivian only comes to visit once a year, and in the meantime, Terri can't write or call her...

One day, going to fetch Vivian's cigarettes from her purse, Terri spots a photograph of her aunt with two boys. Who are they? Why haven't Vivian or Phil ever mentioned them?

All her life, Terri's been told her mother Kathryn was killed in a car accident when she was only four years old. So why are both her father and aunt so evasive about her mother? Why aren't there any photographs?

Despite knowing that the truth could be more harmful than anything she's ever known, Terri begins to realize that a life of lies is just as horrible. Slowly, but insistently, she begins to demand the truth...who is she?

Although this book was written over 25 years old, it is in no way dated. Sadly, Terri's story could have happened to anyone, and still often does...
This book was from my high school years and took me back right away. I gave it to my daughter to read.
Mazer's novel for young readers, "Taking Terri Mueller" is the most widely read children's book that deals with the subject of Parental Kidnapping. This is saying a lost, considering that there are around 100 children's books that touch on the subject.

The author succeeds in representing the ambiguity of parental kidnapping situations -- avoiding the good guy parent vs. bad guy parent stereotyping that is so common among wriers on this subjects, and among the "experts" on the social problem as well.

The reader is presented with a father who commits parental kidnapping and a mother who is a "left behind" parent. Yet it is revealed that the "bad" act of parental kidnapping by the father followed a planned "relocation" overseas (which is revealed to be unneccary) that would have destroyed child-father access.

The novel is well crafted with genuine literary merit and deserves to be regarded as a "classic" of its type.