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February 21, 2008
TAKEN by Edward Bloor
It is 2035 and a most profitable industry is kidnapping, because there are people with money and people without. Children of the rich and famous are the easy targets. Communities of wealthy families have sprung up; with security for the community and security for each family includes at least a butler/body guard and cook/maid. The children are always accompanied by security and most of their schooling is accomplished by satellite connections, however, Charity Meyer, our victim, is TAKEN in the Edward Bloor book.
Charity Meyer, 13, lives in secure community. She has been schooled in the rules of kidnapping including how to avoid stress. The rules are simple: the child is taken, the parents pay up within the 24 hour time period: the child is released and the victim stays cool by thinking of the good times.
Charity follows these rules. By staying cool we learn about who she is, her parents, her friends, and the servants through flashbacks. But this is not a normal kidnapping, one of the kidnapping is a young man, who life is very different from Charity. Through conversations between Charity and Dessi's life unfolds. Two teenagers with two different backgrounds meet during one kidnapping.
Once again, this is not an ordinary kidnapping. There are twists and turns that will keep the reader reading this thriller to the very end.
I RECOMMEND TAKEN FOR GUYS AND GIRLS IN GRADES 7 AND UP.
Mrs Jackson
Head of Young Adult Services
Posted by fjacksonem at February 21, 2008 1:12 PM