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Twelve-year-old Steven and his younger brother Benjy make a desperate attempt to force their extremely busy parents to spend more time together with them.
Author : Todd Strasser
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Families
ISBN : 9780399231117
Twelve-year-old Steven and his younger brother Benjy make a desperate attempt to force their extremely busy parents to spend more time together with them.
Author : Paula S. Fass
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780195311419
A look at the history of child kidnappings and abductions in the United States, the motives of the perpetrators, the activities of the media, and the results in the law and in public opinions.
Author : Paula S. Fass
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780195117097
A look at the history of child kidnappings and abductions in the United States, the motives of the perpetrators, the activities of the media, and the results in the law and in public opinions.
Author : Peg Kehret
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101661666
Matt is missing. Bonnie's brother left his classroom to use thebathroom —and disappeared. A police dog traces his scent to the curb, where he apparently got into a vehicle. But why would Matt go anywhere with a stranger? Overwhelmed with fear, Bonnie discovers that her dog is gone, too. Was Pookie used as a lure for Matt? Bonnie makes one big mistake in her attempt to find her brother. In a chilling climax on a Washington State ferry, Bonnie and Matt must outsmart their abductor or pay with their lives.
Author : Paula Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Cats
ISBN : 9780192777843
Kitty is looking after her friend's pet hamster, Marvin, for the weekend when disaster strikes and he is kidnapped! It's time for Superhero Kitty to leap into action to rescue Marvin and bring him home before the night is out.
Author : Richard Bell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501169459
This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs “alongside the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edward P. Jones, and Toni Morrison” (Jane Kamensky, Professor of American History at Harvard University). Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home. Their ordeal—an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still—shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery’s rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War. “Rigorously researched, heartfelt, and dramatically concise, Bell’s investigation illuminates the role slavery played in the systemic inequalities that still confront Black Americans” (Booklist).
Author : David Finkelhor
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN :
Author : Peg Kehret
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142415138
When Amy agreed to baby-sit Kendra Edgerton, she had no idea she was stepping into a kidnapping plot. Two men force the girls out of the house and into a cabin in the woods, where they create DVDs to send to the families, in hopes of a large ransom from Kendra's wealthy parents. Using her wits and imagination, Amy stealthily sends clues to the police through the DVDs, but time is working against her: She has one week until her captors decide to return Kendra and get rid of Amy.
Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 9781435257115
Aiden works with the FBI in order to rescue his sister Meg, who was kidnapped. Where is Meg Falconer? Everybody wants to know. Her brother Aiden, who saw her kidnapped and is now trying to track her down, wants to know. The FBI, led by the very serious Agent Harris, wants to know. Her parents, who fear their pasts have something to do with why Meg was taken, want to know. Even Meg's kidnappers want to know. Because even though they caught her once, that doesn't mean they can keep a hold of her.
Author : Susan O'Brien
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Abduction
ISBN : 143811723X
According to the US Department of Justice, more than 250,000 children are abducted each year. This book explains the types of kidnappings, details government and law enforcement efforts to prevent and solve them, and explores the many practices and programs, such as the AMBER Alert, to help protect children.