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1) Amelia's war
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c1999
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A Confederate general's threat to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless its citizens pay him an exorbitant ransom, prompts twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend to find some way to save their community.
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Fourteen-year-old Amy's excitement over her first babysitting job ends when she and her three-year-old charge are kidnapped, but a daily videorecording sent to little Kendra's parents allows Amy to send clues, in hopes of being rescued before the kidnappers decide they no longer need her.
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In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.
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Gamer volume Bk 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Cynthia Cyber has trapped two programmers in the video game Space Racers, which she invented but did not get credit for, and sends a monster racer to destroy them if she does not get a ten million dollar ransom--and it is up to thirteen-year-old Tyler Morant in his secret identity as The Gamer to rescue them before they are destroyed.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 81
Pub. Date
c1988
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Nancy is in New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras. The father of her friend Brian wants to possess a haunting portrait of his late wife, but the painting is stolen and held for ransom and Brian's father is accused of the crime.
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The 39 clues. Cahills vs. Vespers volume 6
Pub. Date
2013
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"It started with a kidnapping. A shadowy organization known only as the Vespers snatched seven members of the Cahill family and demanded a series of bizarre ransoms from around the world. Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister Amy began a global treasure hunt, determined to bring back whatever Vesper One needed, so long as it kept the hostages safe. But when they deliver the last ransom, Amy and Dan discover Vesper One's terrifying endgame....