Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Girl, Stolen | 2010 | April Henry | Buy |
| 2 | Count All Her Bones | 2017 | April Henry | Buy |
Girl, Stolen starts with a teenager who has been left asleep in the back of her mother’s car at a pharmacy. A young man steals the car without knowing she’s there, and Cheyenne, who is blind due to complications from pneumonia, has to figure out what has happened and how to escape. The novel runs at a pace that does not slow down, and Henry uses Cheyenne’s perspective to put the reader in an unusual position: gathering information entirely through sound, touch, and memory.
The book became one of Henry’s most popular titles and was adopted by many schools. It won the Missouri Gateway Readers Award and appeared on multiple state reading lists. The second book, Count All Her Bones (2017), follows up on Cheyenne several years later while also following a girl named Griffin who is involved in a different kind of captivity situation.
The two books work together but have distinct central stories. Readers who enjoyed the first novel’s tight, constrained setting may find the second book broader in scope, though Cheyenne remains a presence.