kidnapping

Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft, and kidnappings.

Tiny Mpayipheli, a one-time government gun-for-hire, has retired to the countryside where he lives anonymously with the woman he loves and her son, but he is drawn back into his dangerous lifestyle once again when he agrees to help rescue an old friend who has been kidnapped, and quickly learns the situation is much more complicated than he had imagined.

Tells the true adventure story of Red Hugh, son of the chieftain of the powerful O'Donnell clan, who was kidnapped by English troops and held hostage at Dublin Castle for four years before escaping.

Maisie Voyager used to explore the world with her parents but is living a "normal" life with Aunt Hetty when strangers appear, cryptic messages are left, and Aunt Hetty is kidnapped, leaving Maisie to try to rescue her aunt and her parents as well.

Eleven-year-old Joshua Higgins' prize-winning science fiction novel draws the attention of sinister blue aliens who capture Josh and his sister Maggie and take them to the planet Yastrol.

An evil millionaire has kidnapped one of the Indestructable Metal Men--super-strong robots over one hundred years old--and is planning to use it to build an army of indestructible robots unless a fiesty young scientist can stop him.

Explains to children how to stay safe from strangers at home, in one's neighborhood, at school, on the phone, and on the Internet, and covers such topics as family code words.

In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape.

A graphic novel adaptation of Eoin Colfer's novel in which a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold; but the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

"Andi," a teenage girl who has been living in the mountains of New Mexico for four months ever since waking up at a bed-and-breakfast with amnesia, meets fourteen-year-old Mark Dark Hope and together they set out to discover who "Andi" really is and why she was abducted.