kidnapping

"13-year-old Alice TodHunter Moon goes in search of her friend Ferdie, who has been kidnapped by the malevolent Lady, encountering Septimus Heap, ExtraOrdinary Wizard, and awakening her own Magykal potential"--Provided by publisher.

When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

Gwen and Vic learn that Vic's father has finally made it through the crystal doors to the magical island of Elantya; however, they and their friends are kidnapped by their underwater enemies and taken beneath the sea.

Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.

Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.

When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

Callie and Nick embark on a dangerous adventure after their archaeologist parents are kidnapped on a Greek island, and they battle deadly tombs, a lion-headed monster, and the schemes of a psychotic millionaire while trying to obtain a Mycenaean treasure that could cover their parents' ransom.

Despite horrible conditions at the boys' home where kidnappers left him, eleven-year-old Colley, an orphan, finds a reason and a way to live, along with comradeship.

Max and his robodog Rivet attempt to rescue Max's kidnapped father from a giant cyber squid, and on the way they encounter Lia, princess of the underwater Merryns, on her quest to recover the magical items stolen from her people.

The Kingdom Keepers, five teens who have been transformed into Holographic Hosts at Florida's Disney World, mount a search for Wayne, their missing Imagineer mentor, and find themselves fighting for their lives in imaginary worlds that have become real.