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The Kidnapping of
Christina Lattimore Joan Lowery Nixon Harcourt Children's Books © 2004 |
This book has won the Edger Allan Poe for best young adult mystery. As soon as you start reading this book Christina is getting kidnapped by two people. Christina tells you every thing that happened like your living throw it with her when she finally gets out she finds out that everyone believes its her that set up the whole thing. When really their is a third person that keeps quiet and set it up to look like it was Christina if they didn’t get away. No one believes her, not even her best friend. Then Kelly shows a man in college who was their behind a camera then she left the house that she was taken to. He helps her find out the truth. This part of the story is long and drown out I almost lost interest in the book but I pushed threw it. Very happy that I did because I was not expecting who it was. At the end of the story she finds out a lot more than just who the third person is in her kidnapping. She learn a life lesson that has set her on the right track for the rest of her life a lesson that every one needs to learn.
This is a good book for any teen because its not only a mystery story it can teach you some lessons as well. If you love to read in great detail than this book is great, but have some time and no distractions. When you read the back of the book it makes you believe that she was tortured. To be in that situation would hard, but to read about it is just a good mystery. The book spends more time on her finding out who did it than what happened. Mystery seekers get this book solve a mystery and learn a lesson.
~ Marie Flickinger, grade 12, Trumbull County Career and Technical Center/Warren G. Harding