kidnapping

When the Pasha of the City of Sun becomes convinced that Gozo is his kidnapped son, Bartlett and Jacques le Grand try to rescue their young friend by using "Ingenuity, Perseverance, and Desperation" to get the Pasha's real son back from the underground City of Flames.

While trying to ransom a scientist who was studying a rare metal, Mortensen is drugged and packed in a crate headed for Africa, but soon learns that the scientist is wanted by more than one person, in more than one place and time.

Artemis gets an urgent plea for help from a man he thought he would never see or hear from again, his father, and must employ the help of the fairy police to save his father from the Russian Mafiya.

Kidnapped as a baby by Puddlejumpers, little people who live in a world below puddles, twelve-year-old Ernie must find courage to save the Puddlejumpers by leading them into battle against their mortal enemies, the Troggs.

Princess Rhia joins other princesses and princes at a party for the Crown Prince of Vesarja. When Princess Iardith is abducted, Princess Rhis and her friends go after her with the princes in pursuit.

Twelve-year-old Nick McIver tries to help his father and sister send vital information to England about imminent Nazi invasion, until he finds himself transported through time to help his ancestor stop a mutinous captain who is aiding the French fleet and endangering British sailors.

Dominic's children are kidnapped, but before they can be sold into slavery, a deadly plague strikes.

Eleven-year-old Sam, who enjoys telling lies, has a difficult time trying to convince people that his father has been kidnapped; so he sets out on his own to find him.

Eleven-year-old Lyra Belacqua journeys from her home at Oxford University to the frozen North on a quest to save kidnapped children from the evil Gobblers; and then rescue her father from the Panserbjorne, a race of mercenary polar bears who have taken him captive.

After fifteen-year-old Ginger runs into a photographer in the park, Ginger begins to think the man--who has taken a mysteriously keen interest in her younger stepsister--is her biological father, who walked out on Ginger when she was three.