How would you feel if your daddy went away for a really long time? Would you miss him? Jana does. She's been having a hard time ever since her daddy left to go far away to Afghanistan. Whether picking up her toys, going to a new school, being nice to Jaci or just having a really bad day, Jana is having a lot of trouble. Life is hard sometimes, without a daddy around. She misses him a lot. Sometimes it feels like no one understands. Sometimes she thinks about her daddy and how much she misses him, especially when she thinks about the fun stuff they used to do. All of this makes Jana very sad. Then one day, she receives a letter in the mail Who could it be from? She isn't sure, but she knows she can't wait to read it and maybe see that she isn't the only one who misses her daddy.

"Rubini frames the story as a mystery, asking why, despite Nancy Drew's fame, most people have never heard of Benson and tracking down clues and evidence to uncover more information about the life of this little-known author...VERDICT A solid option for those interested in the 'Nancy Drew' mysteries." -School Library JournalGrowing up in Ladora, Iowa, Mildred "Millie" Benson had ample time to develop her imagination, sense of adventure, and independence. Millie left her small hometown to attend the University of Iowa, where she became the first person to earn a master's degree from the school of journalism. While still a graduate student, Millie began writing for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, which published the phenomenally popular Hardy Boys series, among many others. Soon, Edward Stratemeyer tapped Millie for a new series starring amateur sleuth Nancy Drew, a young, independent woman not unlike Millie herself. The syndicate paid its writers a flat fee for their work and published the books under pseudonyms. Under the pen name Carolyn Keene, Millie went on to write twenty-three of the first thirty books of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. In all, Millie wrote more than a hundred novels for young people under her own name and under pseudonyms. Millie was also a journalist for the Toledo (Ohio) Times and The Blade. At the age of sixty-two she obtained her pilot's license and combined her love of aviation with her passion for writing, sharing her travels and adventures with readers. Follow the clues throughout Missing Millie to solve the mysteries of this ghostwriter, journalist, and adventurer.