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Author
Series
Lexile Measure
980L
Summary
Fresh from his escapades with Tom Sawyer, with six thousand dollars in the bank and the Widow Douglas as his guardian, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who is so determined to get his hands on Huck's fortune that he kidnaps Huck and threatens to kill him. Escaping from Pap, Huck meets the runaway slave, Jim, who plans to head north and buy his wife and children our of slavery. Huck joins Jim on a salvaged raft, and together the two...
Author
Series
Star Wars adventures in wild space volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile Measure
630L
Summary
When their parents are kidnapped by the Empire, Milo and Lina head to Thune to ask a friend for help, but the evil Captain Korda has set a trap for them.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Summary
Shane resorts to kidnapping in his dangerous dance with the Armenian mob. Dutch risks everything by becoming personally involved in a homicide investigation. The Strike Team mobilizes to free a drug lord's daughter. But when it comes down to it, Detective Vic Mackey must confront his greatest adversary: himself. Pressured to take down Pezuela, Vic negotiates an immunity deal with ICE to vanquish Beltran at last, causing the skeletons to come tumbling...
1146) The factory
Pub. Date
c2013
Summary
Detective Mike Fletcher, a rugged and obsessive police officer, and his partner Kelsey Walker, are on the trail of a serial killer who prowls the streets targeting young streetwalkers. When his teenage daughter disappears, Fletcher discovers that the killer has kidnapped her after mistaking her for a prostitute. Fletcher's obsession goes into overdrive when he drops all professional restraint to get the killer and save his daughter.
Author
Series
Star Wars adventures in wild space volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile Measure
670L
Summary
After escaping from Captain Korda on Thune, Milo and Lina track the source of a rebel transmission to a jungle planet, but they are unaware of the dangers lying in wait.
1148) Hilda and the time worm
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
"The city's naughtiest mischiefmakers, the Yule Lads, are trying to kidnap Trolberg's kids. But being grounded means Hilda has to get creative in order to save her friends. Can she escape a tangle of timelines and a hungry time worm to protect the whole town from harm?" --
1149) To seize a queen
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
"1594. Ursula Stannard is attending on her half-sister, Queen Elizabeth, when she receives an urgent summons from Sir Robert Cecil. Cornishman Master Roskilly was fished out of the sea by Sir Francis Godolphin, and has a shocking tale of being snatched by pirates and put on a slave vessel to Constantinople before his audacious escape. And he's not the only one . . . Folk in Cornwall are mysteriously disappearing. But why are only exceptional or unusual...
Author
Series
World of Claris volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Summary
Abigail Fig is a very curious pig. She's full of questions, which can sometimes be a little annoying. But one day, her observation skills come in handy when she witnesses a pignapping -- can she follow the clues to find her friends?
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
"Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It's a good plan! Or it would've been, if he wasn't kidnapped by a mermaid. With her last shot at happiness lost in the deep blue sea, Jane must venture to the world underwater...
Author
Summary
"After a high-profile kidnapping case goes wrong, criminal inspector Leonore Asker is relegated to the so-called Department of Lost Souls where she, drawn into a peculiar case, one possibly linked to the kidnapping, is led to the darkest recesses of the city where an unusual kind of evil lurks in the shadows"--
Author
Series
Enola Holmes volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]-
Summary
"Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead ..."--Back cover of Book 1
1157) The deadly race to space
Author
Series
Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 9
Pub. Date
[2011], p2010
Summary
Destination: Russia. On the even of the first manned mission to Mars, Secret Agent Jack Stalwart learns that the mission's chief rocket engineer has disappeared. When he finds out that engineer is his father, Jack vows the kidnapper is going to live to regret it. Can Jack keep his cool to save the day?
