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Three Days, by Donna Jo Napoli ISBN: 0-525-46790-4 c2001 151 pages R.L.- Points-

Good sections to read aloud: p. 42 where Jackie really realizes for the first time that she has been kidnapped

Summary: Jackie is on vacation with her father in Italy. They are driving along one day when suddenly he becomes sick and can no longer drive. Jackie manages to get the car pulled over to the side of the road, but doesn’t know what to do to try and help her father out. She frantically tries to flag down other cars to stop, but no one does...for a long time. Finally, after many, many hours, two men stop. She tries to tell them what has happened and they get her into the car. They don’t speak any English and she is frantic that they aren’t taking her to the police to get help. She realizes that they have kidnapped her and she has no idea how to get away. She doesn’t speak Italian, she doesn’t know directions on where to go for help, and there are no phones to call out anywhere. What will become of Jackie?

YA fiction--survival/adventure; kidnapping; Italy; death

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