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Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
The only parents Maddie knows are her grandparents. She’s lived with them for as long as she can remember. That’s okay. Maddie loves her grandparents. But she still wants to know about her parents, especially her mother who left her with her grandparents at the age of two and was never heard from again. While surfing the channels with her friend, Charlie, she’s surprised to find an infant photo of herself on the missing children’s channel. She decides to do some research, and the life she loves living in a trailer park with her grandparents is turned upside down. Maddie is reunited with her real parents, who are outlandishly wealthy. And all Maddie wants is to return to her grandparents and the normal life she had before she learned about her wealthy heritage.
Michelle Files’ novel, Girl Lost, is a coming of age story about a young girl who really is lost in so many ways. Confused about her parentage, she stumbles into adolescence and first love with reckless abandon. Becoming a parent at such a young age doesn’t help her sort out her feelings or come to terms with the reality of the life she has found herself living. Maddie is lost in so many ways. The plot thickens and unravels as threats get closer to Maddie as the ultimate target. Written in first person, this is Maddie’s story and it’s both passionate and heart wrenching and, at times, a little frightening. Although it sags a bit in the middle, this is a powerful narrative of a young girl trying to grow up when she doesn’t really understand who she is.
