Review: The Girl in the White Van

The Girl in the White Van by April Henry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Savannah is not looking forward to returning home after kung fu class.  She fought with her mother’s boyfriend and she knows she will need to grovel to get in his good graces.  Her thoughts quickly change gears when she is attacked outside of her kung fu class and is kidnapped by a man driving a white van.  When she finally wakes up from her head injury, she finds that she is not alone.  Jenny was kidnapped 10 months earlier and has been tasked with getting Savannah trained properly.  But this captor does not know what he has grabbed.  Savannah may only be an orange belt, but she has the heart of Bruce Lee and plans to get both of them out alive … if she can.

The Girl in the White Van is a stand-alone young adult mystery that reads short, yet not so sweet.  Henry has crafted a story that gets quickly into the turmoil and brings readers into the mystery without wasting a lot of pages.  Although I felt like the story could have used more details, the fact that it was barely over 200 pages means that readers can easily sit down and read it in one sitting.  Once again, Henry has written a young adult thriller that will be easily consumed by boys and girls alike.

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