Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr

Yet another of Zarr's amazing masterpieces. This time about a sixteen-year-old girl named Samara Taylor (or Sam) who has a pastor for a father and a pretty blondie for a mother.

Life for Sam had been pretty bumpy in the past few days. First, the air condition failed, then Sam's mom got into a crazy car crash and was thought mental and therefore was brought to a mental health ward for help. So Sam was left with a 100 degree temperature house and no mom. Add a busy pastor of a dad and a very close friend named Jody missing. Life was downright terrible. It was not long before Sam started having questions about her religion, and doubting there was even a God out there in the first place. And Nick, Jody's eighteen-year-old brother was being accused of kidnapping his own sister! Sam knew this was not true of course since Nick was the most innocent boy she knew; he would never do that to sister. He had neither the means, the motive, OR the opportunity. So Nick was off the list. Days passed, and thirteen-year-old Jody was still missing. More questions arose in Sam's head; more doubts.
Would Sam survive this difficult test, or would she give up and turn away? Would she ever see her mother again? 

Looking for the answers for these three questions? I've found the perfect solution for you; go to your library, or nook, or kindle, or anything like that, and enter Sam's world.