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Taken

Taken

by Edward Bloor

2007FictionGated communitiesJuvenile fictionKidnappingSocial classes
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BY 2035 THE RICH have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and kidnapping has become a major growth industry in the United States. The children of privilege live in secure, gated communities and are escorted to and from school by armed guards.But the security around Charity Meyers has broken down. On New Year's morning, she wakes and finds herself alone, strapped to a stretcher, in an ambulance that's not moving. She is amazingly calm - kids in her neighborhood have been well trained in kidnapping protocol. If this were a normal kidnapping, Charity would be fine. But as the hours of her imprisonment tick by, Charity realizes there is nothing normal about what's going on here. No training could prepare her for what her kidnappers really want . . . and worse, for who they turn out to be.From the Hardcover edition.

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FictionGated communitiesJuvenile fictionKidnappingSocial classes
First published 2007

About the author

Edward Bloor

1950

Author

Edward Bloor

First published

2007

Pages

272

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

ISBN

9780375836367

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