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Roberts, Willo Davis

Hostage

140 pp. | Atheneum/Karl | February, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-689-81669-3 $$16.00
(4) 4-6 Stopping home from school in the morning to get allergy medicine, eleven-year-old Kaci surprises burglars in her house and becomes, along with a "nosy" elderly neighbor, their captive. The dialogue is fairly stiff, and the first-person narrative sometimes sounds too adult, but readers can still feel an adrenaline rush from wondering how Kaci will manage to escape this tense situation alive.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

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