Meg Cabot has made me fall in love with yet another one of her books. Taking up just after book one, When Lightning Strikes, lets off, Code Name Cassandra reintroduces the cast of characters. This time, it’s summer, and Jess is looking forward to weeks of french-braiding little girls’ hair, lounging by the pool, and hanging out with her best friend, Ruth.
Of course, for a girl who can figure out where lost children are when she falls asleep, things don’t always go exactly according to plan.
“Help me find my little girl.” Jess Mastriani – dubbed “Lightning Girl” by the press when, after a huge storm, she develops a psychic ability to find missing children —has lost her miraculous powers. Or has she? She would like the media and the government to think so. All Jess wants is to be left alone, by everyone except sexy Rob Wilkins—who still hasn’t called, by the way
But it doesn’t look like Jess is going to get her wish—especially not while she’s stuck working at a summer camp for musically gifted kids. Then the father of a missing girl shows up to beg Jess to find his daughter. Jess can’t say no, but now the Feds are on her trail again, as is one ornery stepdad, who’d like to see Lightning Girl dead.
