[The Disappearance] is a combination of a Black "street boy's" refluctant acceptance into a Black middle-class family's life and the suspense of an eight-year-old girl's disappearance…. There are some soft points: surely the police spend more time and effort searching for lost Black girls than is indicated here, and the Aimsley family seems to accept Perk's disappearance a bit too readily. Some readers might have difficulty with the Black and West Indian speech; others may not appreciate the "down" ending. But, by story's close, each character has touched us and the fine delineation of all of them stands out as Guy's greatest strength.

Robert Unsworth, in his review of "The Disappearance," in School Library Journal (reprinted from the November, 1979 issue of School Library Journal, published by R. R. Bowker Co./A Xerox Corporation; copyright © 1979), Vol. 26, No. 3, November, 1979, p. 88.