California

Bonnie said, "Place Last Seen by Charlotte McGuinn Freeman is a novel set in the Sierra Nevada range in California. I wrote a book review about it this morning which you may want to read."

During an idyllic autumn-day hike in the Desolation Wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas, the Baker family is hurled into a nightmare when six-year-old Maggie, a child with Down Syndrome, runs away while playing hide-and-seek with her brother. As the Search and Rescue team combs the place where Maggie was last seen, all the family can do is wait and hope that a clue will lead them to her. Much of the story is seen through the eyes of the search and rescue team members, mapping quadrants, sending out tracker dogs, trying to imagine what a little girl might do when she doesn't think like most children in the first place.