Hatching Pete: Poole has becomes his school's mascot. He comes from a long line of mascots in his family, but it turns out that he can't do it because he's allergic to the costume. So his shy best friend, Pete, does it for him. But when Poole starts becoming popular for being the mascot, and people don't know that it's really Pete, trouble starts between the friends. Dadnapped: Melissa has a bad case of sibling rivalry. Her competition is a fictional...

"Abandoned by her father as a child, Alice is accustomed to men being unpredictable, but Jack Chase is on a completely different level. Just moments after surprising her with a rare family ring, he's suddenly kidnapped by two thugs and expelled into the ether. Alice is then confronted by a sharply dressed stranger who answers to the name White Rabbit, and who promises to reveal all of Jack's secrets. Alice follows him through the enormous liquid glass...

A definitive account of the rescue mission to free hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls after their kidnapping by Boko Haram describes how a global social media campaign initiated with the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls prompted a dramatic worldwide intervention. In the spring of 2014, millions of Twitter users, including some of the worlds most famous people, unwittingly helped turn a group of 276 schoolgirls abducted by a little-known Islamist...

"Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Investigation, In Light of All Darkness embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation-the kidnapping of Polly Klaas-a case as pivotal in the history of the FBI as the Unabomber or Oklahoma City bombing. On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a sleepover...

Where the red fern grows: A young Oklahoma boy uses his own savings to buy two hunting dogs, which he grows to love. The legend of Wolf Mountain: Kerrie, Casey and John have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble. First, they were sent home from school and then they were accidentally kidnapped by a pair of ex-cons! The proud rebel: John Chandler is traveling the country with his son, David, and their sheep dog, Lance, in search of a doctor who...

Three months after four-year-old Holly Gebhardt was kidnapped, she was inexplicably returned to the same park from which she'd vanished, with no memory of the ordeal. Though a local handyman was convicted, suspicion also fell on his friend--Holly's mother, Cecily. The troubling doubts about her involvement shattered the family, forever driving a wedge between mother and daughter. Twenty years later, another girl goes missing under eerily similar circumstances....

Kidnapped by an intruder, Claire, a sufferer of acute panic disorder, finds herself imprisoned in a hotel with her abductor as her only companion, a trauma that forces her to reevaluate her life and threatens to shatter her sense of sanity.