kidnapping

Little Nicholas Nosh, left behind with a babysitter while his family goes off on pirate adventures, is not too small to come to the rescue when they are captured by the bad pirate Red Beard.

At a refugee camp following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried Pompeii, Flavia and her friends discover that children are disappearing and a very powerful citizen might be involved.

Twelve-year-old evil genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, but the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

Teenage James Bond is on the case when a professor is kidnapped in a north London cemetery, and an encoded letter arrives which, once deciphered, leaves James with just forty-eight hours to rescue the captured scholar and save the world.

Despite horrible conditions at the boys' home where kidnappers left him, eleven-year-old Colley, an orphan, finds a reason and a way to live, along with comradeship.

Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.

The famous inventor of an ice-making formula must rescue a skating star of the Mice Capades from Kidnappers.

A wordless picture book that presents a children's story with a twist. A fox kidnaps a hen but the fox is not a villain.

Princess Salamaji of Rashipah arrives in Bayport to attend school, bringing her pet snow leopard Emi to stay at the nearby zoo, but Emi and the princess are both kidnapped and Frank and Joe Hardy must battle jaws, claws, and the more dangerous human animal, to set them free.

Feeling unloved by his mother and new stepfather, Andy hides out in a luxurious San Francisco hotel and stages his own kidnapping in order to obtain ransom money to pay for a trip to England to see his father.