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While driving in the Italian countryside, eleven-year-old Jackie's father suddenly collapses at the wheel. Fear for her father's life quickly turns to terror when two Italian men kidnap her and drive to their remote home in the countryside. Jackie soon discovers that her captors are actually a family, plagued by a mysterious secret. Award-winning novelist Donna Jo Napoli has created a haunting thriller that gives life to Jackie's utter desperation and determination to escape.
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Product details
- 9-12
- Paperback | 160 pages
- 121.9 x 190.5 x 12.7mm | 136.08g
- 14 Jul 2003
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- Penguin USA
- New York, NY, United States
- English
- Reprint
- 0142500259
- 9780142500255
- 1,391,447
About Professor of Linguistics Donna Jo Napoli
Donna Jo Napoli is the author of Crazy Jack, The Magic Circle, Stones in Water, and many other books. She is the chairperson of the linguistics department at Swarthmore College.
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"Nightmarish scenes ... a suspenseful reading experience."
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"Nightmarish scenes...a suspenseful reading experience." -School Library Journal
"Taut and suspenseful...the present-tense narration gives it a you-are-there immediacy."-The Horn Book
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"Taut and suspenseful...the present-tense narration gives it a you-are-there immediacy."-The Horn Book
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