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Off the Face of the Earth
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SOLVED. boy had a little behavior problem, he loved basketball cards. He was mad at his mother one day so he ran away from home to the mall [s]
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ETA: looks like it was also published with the shorter title: Off the Face of the Earth.
"When eight-year-old David Greene climbs through his bedroom window and walks to a nearby suburban mall, he intends only to give his mother Drew a scare. But on this Southern California evening, David's game turns into every parent's worst nightmare. Denver's abduction of David is practiced and nearly perfect. A friendly "stranger" masking a deeply confused and dangerous mind, Denver woos David with stacks of baseball cards, swiftly undermining the boy's trained responses. When David accepts the offer of a ride home, he disappears - off the face of the earth. As the hours pass, Drew's emotions escalate, from anger at her son's disobedience to fear, to stunned disbelief when she realizes David is not with his father or friends. He's gone. All too soon, the Sherwood Police charge a local schizophrenic with David's murder and declare the case closed. Fueled by terror and an acute instinct that her son is still alive, Drew appeals to her disjointed family and a maverick police officer. Together they launch their own full-scale search. The story alternates between Drew's frantic hunt for the son she knows is still living and the boy's brave struggle to survive by leaving clever hints of his presence even as Denver retreats further and further into insanity."
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It was about a boy who lived with his Mother, sister, grandma, and her 2 show hound dogs.
His parents were divorced because his dad cheated on his mom with a skank that he’s married to now.
The boy had a little behavior problem, he loved basketball cards. He was mad at his mother one day so he ran away from home to the mall. At the mall he met a strange man who was nice at first. The man talked the boy into his car by telling him he had baseball cards. Once they were in his car he stopped being nice, the man wouldn't let him out. If the boy resisted or yelled he would beat him until he was quite. I think the man renamed the boy David. His family tried to find him they even put out a reward. His grandmother use her dog’s to try and track his scent. No one was more passionate about finding him more than his mother. The man would just travel around with the boy acting like he was his dad. The man lied to the boy saying that his mother told him that he could keep him.
He beat him so bad he damaged his throat and he couldn’t talk for a while. He would take him from hotel to hotel to sleep and they ate nothing but fast food or junk food. Sometimes he would take him to buy a few baseball cards. The boy carried a collection of cards with him as well as mustard and ketchup packets. Every fast food restaurant the man took him to the boy would leave a mess of mustered and ketchup with 2 or 3 baseball cards while the man wasn’t looking, hopping his mother and police would see the trail pattern he left and find him.