kidnapping

"Mosquitoes don't bite Nala Simiyu. It's part of who she is, like being a half-Kenyan seventh-grader whose mother is in a wheelchair. But when a schoolmate's father--who happens to head up a large drug company--learns of Nala's special power, the excitement begins. After helping out with mosquito research, Nala has the chance to travel to Kenya to investigate mosquitoes' reactions to her father's family. All goes well until a man heartbroken by his daughter's death from malaria kidnaps Nala."--Provided by publisher.

"When the young prince of Zapada is imprisoned by invaders, he needs all the help he can get to escape. As he flees dressed in his red pajamas, his captors are hot on his heels. But soon he realizes that he is not alone. The whole land of Zapada has joined forces to help him, each person dressing in red to confound and confuse his enemies."--Provided by publisher.

When a snow monster captures Radar, Niko and his crew are on the case.

When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question: who is she, and where was she stolen from.

"Marzana and her best friend are bored. Even though they live in a notorious city where normal rules do not apply, nothing interesting ever happens to them. Nothing, that is, until Marzana's parents are recruited to help solve an odd crime, and she realizes that this could be the excitement she's been waiting for. She assembles a group of kid detectives with special skills--including the ghost of a ship captain's daughter--and together, they explore hidden passageways, navigate architecture that changes overnight, and try to unravel the puzzle of who the kidnappers are--and where they're hiding. But will they beat the deadline for a ransom that's impossible to pay?"--Provided by publisher.

When his entire village is massacred by slavers and the woman he loves kidnapped and sold for gold, Druss the Deathwalker battles savage monsters, black magic, and demons to find her again and bring her home.

Inventor Jeremiah Emerson is planning on unveiling a weapon that will showcase the power of his province, St. Cloud, to the rest of the First American Kingdom at the World's Fair. He has kept his daughter Claire under his control as he believes her touch grants him his genius. But when the weapon fails on opening day, Claire is kidnapped by St. Cloud's governor Remy Duchamp. With rival governorships jockeying for power, Claire realizes she may be the only person who can allow Remy is retain power. Soon, she must decide if she is going to remake her world or tear it down.

After a mad dash to safety out of a windowless shack in the woods where her captor had been holding her, a young woman calling herself Lena returns to the world after fourteen years missing. However, this is only the beginning of a new nightmare--her family swears she is not their Lena, in spite of the matching scar she has. The little girl who Lena escape with is also a question mark--she is not saying everything she knows. Meanwhile, Lena fears her tormentor is not done with her, and will not rest until the whole truth about what happened in that shack in the woods.

Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.

"An orphan girl undertakes a dangerous journey to rescue her friend the prince from a powerful sorceress"--Provided by publisher.