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Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming's mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were no screams when she was taken, suggesting the culprit was someone familiar to her, and when she turned up again in a nearby village several days later, she was found in perfect health and happiness. No one was ever accused of a crime. The incident quickly faded from her memory, and her parents never...
3) My story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime. On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding. In this latest narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex,...
6) Cropsey
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Staten Island, Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio and other kids had often heard the legend of the escaped mental patient 'Cropsey' who would come out late at night and snatch children off the streets. Urban legend was turned upside down in the summer of 1987 when a little girl with Down syndrome disappeared from their neighborhood. Two filmmakers delve into the mystery behind five missing children and the real-life bogeyman linked to...
Author
Publisher
Worthy Publishing, a division of Hachett Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"At ten months old, Holly Marie was brought to the door of a church by three barefoot women in white robes and head coverings. Adopted by the pastor and raised in a loving Christian home, Holly nevertheless struggled with the ache of not knowing what had happened to her biological parents. She still felt their absence even as she married and started a family of her own. When two detectives showed up at the restaurant where she worked and informed...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the 1940s through the 1960s, young pregnant women entered the front door of a clinic in a small North Georgia town. Sometimes their babies exited out the back, sold to northern couples who were desperate to hold a newborn in their arms. But these weren't adoptions--they were transactions. And one unethical doctor was exploiting other people's tragedies. Jane Blasio was one of those babies. At six, she learned she was adopted. At fourteen, she...
13) Searching for life: the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the disappeared children of Argentina
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
16) Missing children
Author
Publisher
Watts
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Discusses missing children including those who run away or are abducted by strangers or parents and outlines ways to prevent and cope with this increasing problem.
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