kidnapping

Eleven-year-old Kaci and her nosy elderly neighbor Mrs. Banducci are kidnapped and held hostage after Kaci accidently interrupts burglars in the process of robbing her house.

On the planet Chiron, a girl who has been afraid to venture Outside must face germs and other frights when her mother and her holographic best friend, Star, are kidnapped.

Pete the cat uncovers a pet-stealing ring, and before he can tell his owner, he is stolen and must escape to rescue the rest of the kidnapped pets.

Gray hopes that going to a slumber party with the "Lucky Seven" at her private school will take her mind off her mother's cancer, but when she is taken from the party by a deranged woman, both she and the other girls discover things about themselves and each other.

When his parents divorce and his mother moves with him to Belfast, Northern Ireland, twelve-year-old Eddie contends with the Reservoir Pups, a gang of children who rule his neighborhood.

The reader, overhearing a conversation about a plot to kidnap a millionaire's son at a Little League game, makes decisions which determine the outcome of the story.

While Princess Millie and her dragon fiance prepare for their wedding, the entire royal family of Greater Greensward teams up to find Millie's baby brother, who has been kidnapped and turned into a frog.

Fern Verdant's mother, a famous botanist, disappears just before Fern's thirteenth birthday, and when Fern discovers that she has inherited the ability to communicate with plants, she realizes that this is the only way she will be able to find and save her mother.

Kidnappers in Italy have their hands full when the captive American children advise them on running a better kidnapping and on proper nutrition.

In 1975, as he is held hostage by an Arab and an Italian who plan to trade him for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners, storyteller, writer, and husband Shaltiel Feigenberg relates stories about his life, including those about his Communist brother and childhood hiding from Nazis in a cellar.