hostage

__Hostage__, by Willo Davis Roberts ISBN: 0689816693 c2000 140 pages R.L.-5.4 Points-5

p. 13 pp. 37-38 (bottom of 37...meeting Mrs. Banducci) pp. 56-57 (when Kaci notices stuff missing) p. 77
 * Good sections to read aloud:**

Kaci and her family move from a neighborhood her mother considers not safe anymore, to a new subdivision across town. When Kaci has to leave school to go home and get her allergy medicine she interrupts burglars at work. They take her hostage as well as her nosy neighbor, Mrs. Banducci.
 * Summary**:

YA fiction--robbers, kidnapping, neighbors

©Lang - WDMS 2001