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Hostage

Hostage( )
Author: Roberts, Willo Davis
Illustrator: Williams, Anna
ISBN:978-0-689-81669-7
Publication Date:Mar 2000
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $32.75
Book Description:

Kaci enjoys reading mysteries and adventure stories as long as there are other family members around and especially when she has a big bowl of popcorn nearby. Sometimes, though, she longs for a little excitement and wonders what it would be like to have a real adventure.Kaci is feeling this way at the time her family moves to a house in a new development that is supposed to be safer than their old neighborhood. She likes everything about the new place except the nosy neighbor next...
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Book Details
Pages:144
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Law & Crime
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.681 x 21.819 x 1.753 cm
Book Weight:0.277 Kilograms
Author Biography
Roberts, Willo Davis (Author)
Author Willo Davis Roberts was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on May 29, 1928. Her first novel, Murder at Grand Bay, was published in 1955. The View from the Cherry Tree was originally meant to be an adult novel, but was then sold as a children's book; it was published in 1975 and started her career as a children's mystery writer. Roberts wrote a total of ninety-nine children and adult books during her lifetime and won numerous awards including the Mark Twain award for The Girl with the Silver Eyes (1980) and Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job (1985) and the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Megan's Island (1988), The Absolutely True Story of My Visit to Yellowstone with the Terrible Rupes (1994), and Twisted Summer (1996). She died on November 19, 2004 from congestive heart failure.

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