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Series
Michael Bennett mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a killer targeting not only the children of New York's wealthiest families--but the entire city of New York.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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When a deranged gunman forces his way into the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic, and takes hostages, the police hostage negotiator discovers his daughter is inside the clinic.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Centera womens reproductive...
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan Pub. House
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Attorney Jill Clark, taken hostage by a suspect in the bombing of the Newpointe post office, begins to believe the man's claims that he did not commit the crime, but her attempts to prove his innocence are hindered by his misplaced sense of loyalty that keeps him from naming the real killer.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
©2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom. Outside the school, the town of Broken Branch watches and waits. Officer Meg Barrett holds the responsibility for the town's children in her hands. Will Thwaite, reluctantly entrusted with the care of his two grandchildren by the daugther who left home years earlier, stands by helplessly and wonders if he has failed his child again....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Amy, her father, and her stepmother becomes hostages when Somalian pirates seize their yacht, but although she builds a bond with one of her captors it becomes brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things.
Author
Series
Prisoners of Peace volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 6
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Calling themselves the "Keepers" and armed with stolen U.N. arms, a group of greedy, maverick U.N. soldiers seizes control of the United Nations during a gala attended by the ambassadors of ten nations.
10) On blood road
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Taylor is a rebellious teenager with a habit of sneaking out to hang with his anti-war friends, so in January 1968 his mother drags him off to Saigon where his father is attached to the United States embassy; bored (and still rebellious) Taylor sneaks out of the embassy to watch the Tet celebrations, just as the war erupts all over Vietnam and there he is captured by the North Vietnamese Army and sent North as a prisoner and hostage--and during the...
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