kidnapping

After a vagrant finds a dog wandering alone carrying a scrap of paper with the words "HELP US" attached to its collar, Caffery races against time to find the dog's owners, while a wealthy local family, held hostage in their remote home, fight for their lives.

Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they're not alone after all. There's something in the woods that wasn't there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and claws. When three strangers appear on the mountaintop looking for the creature in the woods, Mattie knows their presence will anger William. William won't want them there, and terrible things happen when William is angry. But the creature in the woods is angry, too.

Teen pirate princess Alosa has delivered the final treasure map fragment to her father, pirate king Kalligan, when she discovers she is not exempt from his treachery. He has imprisoned her siren mother aboard a ship for years, and by releasing her, Alosa signs her own death warrant. Running from her father, keeping her crew alive, and racing to beat him to the treasure keep her so busy she almost misses the fact that she?s falling in love with former rival Riden.

A science-fiction thriller, in which an ordinary man is kidnapped, knocked unconscious, and awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew.

After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.

Streetwise stray dog Mr. Whiskers and sisters Misty and Zelda follow clues through the streets of San Francisco in their search for the siblings' kidnapped father.

"Jake's friend Maria is the daughter of undocumented immigrants who have been living and working in the country for a long time. When they are suddenly deported, Maria decides to hide out in Jake's place rather than risk becoming a ward of the state. But when she is abducted by young men on the lookout for teenage girls who have lost their parents to deportation, Jake is determined to find a way to rescue Maria before she's turned over to the authorities. Or worse"--Provided by publisher.

"The sequel to The Rescue of the Unicorn takes you on a fantastic quest through medieval Scotland to find your missing pegacorn mentor, Dame Scotia. You believe she was kidnapped to use her magic to create a pegacorn army. Will you and your newly trained pegacorn, Liss, locate Dame Scotia in time to prevent a possible war?"--Provided by publisher.

Flamingo detective Fabio and his giraffe associate, Gilbert, investigate when a singing hippopotamus disappears during auditions for a talent show being staged to save the failing Hotel Royale.

Superspy middle schoolers Ben and Erica must embark on mission to rescue Erica's grandfather, who was abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility.