Grace, Annie's sister goes missing after a game of hide and seek at the bay of Point Nepean. A storm is brewing and the ocean is rough. The story is told from the view of Kip and Annie. Kip is in the wrong place at the wrong time and also the other character in the story is Ted who is a rather strange.
Someone knows where Grace is...... ( )

Told from the points of view of three characters. When Annie's sister Grace gets lots during a game of hide-and-seek, a boy named Kip and a mysterious stranger may hold the key to her whereabouts. ( )

Genre Mystery and suspense
Reading age 11 to 14
Series Puffin Teenage


Annotation:
Grace goes missing one winter's afternoon on the cliffs on Point Nepean near Portsea as a storm brews, the tide rises and dark descends. Her younger sister Annie had been urging her up the cliff but Grace was 'unco' and fell back, taking much of the crumbling sand and rock with her.
Meanwhile Kip finds their lost backpack on the main beach holding a dead penguin and a ringing mobile phone. As the only person who might possibly have seen the girls he is under suspicion, as is Ted, a once-famous musician now permanently drunk and acting strangely. And who is the child Kip saves in the wild seas?
Kip is bewildered. Is he so changed that he could be the subject of so much doubt? After all, the only thing he has done is give up swimming training.
Much is made here of age. Grace and Annie are only eleven months apart, but their characters and outlook are quite different. Kip is fourteen but looks much older and Ted is a childish adult. Younger children in the novel have a less complicated, though distressed reaction to events. The notion of the journey from innocence to experience is a binding theme.
A great read for a cold grey day. Godwin builds a fine portrait of the setting, and of the miscommunication that seems to arise between the young and adults. ( )

Told from the perspective of 2 different people – Kip and Annie. Annie is the (almost) twin sister of Grace. While they are out walking on the beach, Grace slips and falls. Annie thinks she has gone under the sand, but as there is a storm raging, she is not sure if she has fallen into the water. Kip is walking along the beach when he finds a back pack belonging to Grace. He uses the mobile phone to contact the girl’s father but ends up being a suspect in her disappearance. This is because he was at Ted’s house when she disappeared and Ted gave him alcohol, despite the fact that he is only 14. What is going in with Ted – the strange man who can’t seem to remember one day from the next? Does he have something to do with Grace not being found where she should be? p.53 Kip meets Andrew Grace & Annie’s Dad to p.57