kidnapping

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

Presents a lost manuscript written by Mary Shelly in 1820 and rediscovered in the fall of 1997, in which she tells the story of Maurice, a young boy who has lost his parents; and includes an introductory essay that explores the literary and psychological importance of the story.

Just when fourteen-year-old Jack Morgan thinks he and his symbiont, the dragon warrior Draycos, are on the brink of finding information about the destruction of Draycos's race, he is kidnapped by aliens who ask him to serve as a judge, as his parents did before him.

Twelve-year-old evil genius Artemis Fowl 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.

Andrew Dougals is engaged to advise high-risk clients how best to avoid kidnapping and to negotiate with kidnappers when necessary. Dougals is involved in a kidnapping which leads him from Italy to the United States.

Nancy and George visit Anchorage, Alaska where George is kidnapped to warn Nancy off a case involving shipping magnate Henry Wilcox.

The lives of an eleven-year-old runaway foster child, an old man with a tragic past, and a worried foster mother intertwine as they rescue a group of kidnapped children from an evil tour guide at a cathedral in Northern France.

The Three Investigators foil a plot to kidnap the son of a political leader in an African colony.

When a Misfit is kidnapped, Elspeth is compelled to join the growing rebellion against the Council, but while her extraordinary mental powers could topple the corrupt authoritarian regime she is more concerned about destroying the remaining Beforetime weaponmachines.