kidnapping

Seventh-grader Jonah Stone discovers that he is one-quarter angel--his mother is the daughter of a human and a fallen angel--and when she is kidnapped, Jonah and his sister Eliza must try to rescue her, with the help of prayers and a guardian angel.

Robert, with his best friend, Tom, and sister, Emma, attempt to save the other survivors from the strange parallel world before winter sets in and destroys them all.

When an eight-year-old boy is kidnapped and the top suspect is found murdered, Nancy must forget her feelings for detective Sam Fanelli and help him solve the crime.

When Bayport High's newest soccer player, Carlos Capac, is nearly killed in an act of sabotage, Joe and Frank learn that his father has been kidnapped and there's only one way to save them both: fly to the Capacs' South American homeland and into the middle of a political powder keg.

Nancy goes to bat for a star pitcher when a kidnapper throws him a nasty curve. She investigates the true motive behind the crime.

Thirteen-year-old Amy is babysitting Malcolm, an eight-year-old with a reputation for making up stories. When he tells her he's witnessed the kidnapping of a schoolmate, Amy doesn't know if she should believe him.

Sixteen-year-old Clifton Carlson, emotionally scarred from having seen his father beaten to death by white police officers ten years earlier, grows up without friends or the support of his mother, who has become an alcoholic, but his life is changed when, desperate for friends, he puts messages in bottles and sends them down New River where they are intercepted by Swamper, an elderly man who lives in a shack on the riverbank.

After being kidnapped and barely escaping, sixteen-year-old Jack goes to London with his best friend Connor, where someone gives him a pair of glasses that send him to an alternate universe where war is raging, he is responsible for the survival of two younger boys, and Connor is trying to kill them all.

A new evil draws best friends Jack and Conner back into Marbury, where the war still wages, in order to save their friends--and themselves.

An innkeeper just back from the First Crusade disguises himself as a court jester to save his wife, who has been abducted by an evil duke searching for a holy relic.