Find the Miracle

Watching Alice #4

by Daniel Parker, Lee Miller, Barnabas Miller

Wanted for murder and kidnapping, Tom Sinclair is on the run in the hopes that he can track down his one true love who will help him set the record straight--despite what the cops and his own father may think. Original.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Teen, Young Adult

176 pages, Paperback

First published April 21, 2005

About the author

Daniel Parker is a pseudonym of Daniel Ehrenhaft.

Reviews

[Sharlyn Paulino · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think that this book is a good. It draws a reader in right from the star. "Alice is so close. i can feel it"(Miller 1). The title on its own draws u in and gives a feeling that it's something about mystery.
Being that this is from a journal, there is a lot of inner thinking and its good because we get to see what the character is thinking and at some points feel how the character feels.
The book is just well written and interesting at times and makes you infer about whats going to happen next.

[Sarah Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars
We finally found Alice!

* So, Tom eventually gets to speak to Shaquina, and learns some things.
- The Shepard is Carter, and his friends are the flock.
- The little lamb is Tara.
- Shaquina is the prophet as Tom had already worked out.
- The 2 doctors at the university were the wolves, and that was why Alice didn't want to go to their evening in book 1.
- The miracle is a drug that Alice developed. Shep got hooked on it, and that's how he ended up in the hospital.
* The wolves had made a deal with a drug dealer to supply them with the miracle, but Alice refused to produce it, and burned down the church where she used to produce it.
* The wolves try to make it themselves, and their efforts are what killed Shep and Tara.
* The teacher Mark Lowrey was also involved, they go to see him, but he is in withdrawal from the miracle too, and says he doesn't know where Alice is. They believe him because he's so strung out.
* They find some vials and keys, which slot together to form crucifixes. Tom realises that if this was what they were using to distribute the drug, then the obvious persons o distribute it would be Danny - the kid who was always hanging out Christian pamplets, and crucifixes.
* They try to find Danny but can't, but he calls to say that Alice is in 'seventh heaven' which Tom figures must be down near where Jimmy plays, as that is a line from one of his songs. He also realises that the small room that Alice was being kept in could have been Danny's van.
* Tom and Shaquina go down there, and Tom's father also meets them down there, but the police turn up before they can get into Danny's van. Shaquina convinces the police to look in the van and they discover Alice, malnourished and dehydrated.
* Everything is explained to the police, and Tom is finally no longer on the run. Nothing happens concerning the miracle because it isn't a known drug, and therefore not an illegal drug.
* Alice and Tom finally go on their cruise.

[Gurvir Bajwa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gurvir Bajwa
11/8/13
Period 6
Watching Alice Book Review

"Watching Alice, Find the Miracle", by Daniel Parker and Lee Miller has a very interesting and shocking story to it. This book is about a word-for-word copy of a high school student, Tom Sinclair's journal in Manhattan, New York. Tom is looking for his missing girlfriend, Alice Brown, who vanished out of nowhere, so she is now missing. Tom has been keeping a journal and writing down everything he does everyday while his search continues for his girlfriend. The police suspects that he took Alice because he is hiding in a building. Tom doesn't leave the building at all unless he is going to meet someone to find information on Alice.
I liked a lot of things about this book. First of all, the fact that this story is true and happened in real life, the authors of this book decided to get the story out to a lot more people so they could learn from these kinds of situations. Also, the fact that Tom Sinclair was very dedicated to finding his girlfriend, Alice, shows how much he cares for the people he loves. Even though everyone suspected that he took Alice, Tom's dad knew the truth and believed Tom when he said that he was trying to find her. I liked everything about this book, it was a mystery and kept me reading it all the way through.
I would recommend this book to teenagers from ages fourteen and up. I think it would be best if teenagers read this book because it has some foul language since it is a journal type and is written by a high school student. The book also has some criminal activity going on in search of Alice Brown. Teenagers will relate more than anyone else to this book because it was written by a high school student's point of view and what he had to go through during this investigation. "Watching Alice, Find the Miracle", was one of my favorite books that I have read and it made me realize that if you think you have no one that cares for you, you actually don't know how much they really care.

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[Teri · Rating 4 out of 5]

When Tara died I hated this series but this book and series waas actually really good.

[Ginny · Rating 1 out of 5]

The last one redeemed the others.