kidnapping

In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.

Young Damian Drooth puts his newly-acquired detective skills to the test when the daughter of a wealthy movie director is kidnapped from the set.

When her mother goes on a NASA mission, Cat Starr is sent to live with her father, stepsister Olivia, and younger brother Geoffrey, but interference by her inept fairy godmother causes toads to appear when Cat speaks and gems to fall from Olivia's mouth, bringing one to the attention of jewel thieves and the other to a secret government laboratory.

Erik Morrissey Ganger and his friend, fourteen-year-old Sadie Dopple, meet a wealthy recluse while trying to escape tunnels under Isambard Dunstan's School for Wayward Children in order to pursue a former foe who has inadvertently kidnapped Sadie's twin sister, Saskia.

When twelve-year-old Alex's Scottish castle of Carra is sold, dismantled, and moved to Texas, the ghosts that raised him from a child have difficulty relocating.

Collects the first five books in the series featuring evil genius Artemis Fowl and his adventures as he uses illegal ways to try and obtain money to rebuild his family fortune and save the world from impending doom.

When Liverwurst the baby rhinosterwurst disappears, Wackatoo Indians, survivors of the 49th Cavlary, and children from the Koala Scouts join the circus company in rescuing him from a burger tycoon interested in creating Rhino-burgers.

Explains what instincts are and how to say no when your instincts tell you something is wrong or dangerous.

After saving the lions from evil Maccomo, Charlie, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats, goes to Venice to search for his parents and solve the mystery of their kidnapping with help from Bulgarian King Boris.

In the winter of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Perc? village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Perc? Indians.