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Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Two years after Nina Peterson's brutal murder her husband Steve is still fighting to bring the killer to justice. Their six-year-old son Neil remains haunted by the terrible vision of the murderer's hands wrapped around his mother's throat. And Sharon Martin, who has grown to love both Steve and Neil, wishes only to ease their pain and suffering. But as 19-year-old Ronald Thompson sits wrongly convicted on the eve of his execution, a stranger is still...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
A tragic kidnapping... the mystery of twin telepathy... a mother's search for a child, presumed dead. Hours after throwing a third birthday party for their twins Kathy and Kelly in their Connecticut home, Margaret and Steve Frawley return home from a dinner in New York to discover the police in the house, their daughters missing, and an eight million dollar ransom note. The Frawleys meet the kidnapper's demands, but the abandoned car they're led to...
3) Saint
Author
Series
Publisher
Westbow Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Carl Strople was covertly recruited to Black Ops and given the most brutal kind of training any man or woman could endure. Now he belongs to The X Group. But why do they call him "Saint"?
An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet . . . Carl Strople struggles to retain fleeting memories that betray an even more ominous reality. He's been told part of the truth--but not all of it.
Invasive techniques have stripped him of his identity...
4) The husband
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.
5) First family
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Description
A daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David into a national security nightmare, pushing agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to their limits.
Author
Series
His Dark Materials volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Description
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.
Author
Series
Michael Bennett volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
During a state funeral for a beloved former First Lady in New York City's largest cathedral, the unthinkable occurs. Armed men disguised as monks seize the church and seal themselves inside, along with more than one hundred of the most powerful people in America. The captives include world leaders, actors, TV stars, athletes, and politicians, and the kidnappers are armed with enough C4 explosives to blow a crater in the middle of Manhattan.
NYPD officer...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Description
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends: her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Formats
Description
Too bad former secret agent Cotton Malone knows how to unearth the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria; now his bookstore has been ransacked and his son kidnapped.
12) The cellar
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet.
13) Mirage
Author
Series
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry; she dreams of having adventures, and travelling beyond her isolated home. But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped and brought to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is to become a body double for the hated princess Maram"--
14) Room: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
15) The vanishing
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Jazz's best friend, Annika, has been kidnapped. She can't call the cops, so she forges a truce with her nemesis, Phoenix. In a race against time, Jazz and Phoenix only have 48 hours to collect the evidence, profile the kidnapper and find their schoolmate's location, or Anika will die.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The memoir of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991 from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California, when she was 11 years old. She was held prisoner by convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido. She was held captive by the Garridos for over eighteen years, all the while living in a tent on the Garrido property. During her captivity she gave birth to two children fathered by Garrido. She reappeared...
17) Split second
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Two Secret Service agents, one of them retired, have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the two discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making --and are a long way from over.
18) Kill Alex Cross
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
19) NOS4A2: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 31
Formats
Description
The spine-tingling, bone-chilling novel of supernatural suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Horns-now an AMC original series starring Zachary Quinto, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ashleigh Cummings.
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her...
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