kidnapping, parental

Discusses the problem of children being kidnapped by one of their parents, usually parents involved in a divorce, and suggests ways for children to deal with the problem.

Accounts of four rescues: bringing an abused mother and her daughter home from Tunisia, returning a girl abducted from her mother in Texas and taken to Jordan, setting a trap in Bangladesh for the man who had taken the daughter of an Oklahoma woman, and rescuing two children kidnapped and taken to Columbia by their father, an ex-commando and trained killer.

Professor Michael Branden, Pastor Caleb Troyer, and Sheriff Bruce Robertson attempt to penetrate the secrecy of the Old Order Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in order to recover a ten-year-old boy who has been kidnapped by his outcast father.

After their parents divorce, eleven-year-old Elsie and her younger brother Tommy, who is mentally "different," must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding.

Leedie Ann Alcott was kidnapped just before Kiley's ninth birthday and now Kiley sees Leedie looking out the window of the Alcott mansion, but strangely no one admits Leedie is back.

Fourteen-year-old Terri remembers only life with her father, but then she discovers that he kidnapped her from her mother after a divorce and that her mother is still alive.

Deb feels vaguely uneasy about her upcoming vacation with her dad, knowing that her mom is also going to be away and out of touch, and her feelings are borne out when she finds herself abducted, along with her brother and sister, by a father determined to make them a family again.

Three-year-old Ethan's divorced father offers to drive him and Rebecca, his babysitter, home after their trip to the park, but he is not taking them home. He is headed for a remote cabin in the woods.

After their parents divorce, eleven-year-old Elsie and her younger brother Tommy, who is mentally "different," must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding.

When their little sister doesn't come home from school, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her brother must face up to some deep, dark secrets about their natural mother, whom they must consider as a kidnapping suspect.