kidnapping

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.

A little helicopter who longs for adventure finds it when he is able to assist in rescuing a kidnapped schoolgirl.

When the Riddler kidnaps the son of a police detective, Batman comes to the rescue.

A woman working to protect Ridge City, a coal mining town, is kidnapped, and the Hardy brothers dig into a world of dirty politics, dirty deals, and dirty tricks as they try to find her.

Catspeaker Charlie Ashanti finds himself on a boat to the Caribbean where he will be sold to the Corporacy, but his parents and lion friends are in pursuit, and he is determined to outwit his captors.

Aided by his friends, Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective, sets out on the trail of kidnappers who took Queenie Bee.

When Echo's human friend, Rebecca Silver, is kidnapped by a witch who wants her for an assistant, Echo and the Bat Pack must risk their lives to rescue her.

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose head out to see the sights of Washington, D.C. in the snow in December, and meet KC, the president's stepdaughter, and her friend Marshall, and when the president's dog goes missing, the kids head into the dusk to search as the snowstorm increases.

Provides a detailed account of the 1874 kidnapping and ransom of a boy named Charley Ross, who was taken from his family's front yard in Philadelphia while the city was preparing for the nation's centennial celebration, describing the wide-spread media attention on the case, and discussing the efforts of the Philadelphia and New York police departments, elicit American citizens, and others to recover the child.

Discusses the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, how two policewomen discovered who she was and the trial that followed for Phillip Craig Garrido, the man who kidnapped her eighteen years earlier.