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Summary: KIDNAPPED!!
Review: "Why me? " is the question that Christina finds herself asking when she wakes up in a cold, dark, and damp basement. She has just signed a ransom note to her grandma against her will. The next day her kidnapper makes her go through the house and put her fingerprints on everything from a glass to a light switch. After her kidnappers get back with the ransom money they divide it to two piles on the table. Suddenly there is a noise at the door. They drop the gun into Christina's lap and put their hands in the air, it's the police and they blame Christina for setting up her own kidnapping! Can she prove her innocence?
I like this book because it is very interesting to see if Christina will prove her innocence. You will just want to read, read, and read some more. In fact I read the whole book in one day. You should read this book, too. It shows how strong one girl is to go to such great lengths to prove her innocence
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Summary: A pretty great book
Review: "The kidnapping of Christina Lattimore" is a pretty good book. I just read it a couple months ago and enjoyed it. I really like the suspens Nixon creates. I don't really like how some of the stuff isn't solved and other things that might get to you.
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Summary: Kidnapped!
Review: Christina is walking in, and she is druged and kidnapped. She wakes up in a basement, with kidnappers she can not identify, until abou the middle of the book. When she is released, the kidnappers tell evryone that she was in on it to get money to go on a class trip. And everyone belives her. She must find a way to prove her inocense with her new friend, Kelly.
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Summary: It was a mystery book
Review: christina was driving home from a friends house about midnight.A car was following her,she turned onto her driveway,got out of her car,all of a sudden, someone in a ski mask came and dragged her off to the kidnappers house.They hold her for ransom. It is a while before she figures out who they are.They make her sign a ransom note.This can happen in real life.We see pictures of children all over the place. Christina was just a charater in this book, but it could happen to anyone of you out there.
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Summary: Not The Usual Nixon-Suspense!...
Review: I absolutely love Joan Lowery Nixon! I've only read two books by her so far, but they were both good! A couple days ago I read "The Name of the Game Was Murder," which is creepily suspenseful. That's where "The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore" comes in...
I personally loved this book; once again Nixon astounded me. Even though it was a book I'd put at the top of a mystery list, after reading "The Name of the Game...," it just wasn't very suspenseful. By suspense I mean "what's going to happen next?"
The storyline revolves around a girl named Christina. She is desperate to go on a trip to France with her class, but her father refuses, being that the trip is to study Roman Catholics and her father is a priest, not believing in the religion. She asks her weathly grandmother who owns an oil company if she could take some money out of her trust fund to pay for it by herself. But, she is turned down.
Later that night, coming back from her best friend Lorna's house, her mouth is covered and she is drugged.
She wakes up laying in a cot in a dank basement. She realizes she was kidnapped! The oddity of the situation is that her kidnapper brings her food and makes sure she is well taken care of. He tells her to sign a ransom note to her grandmother.
The next day she soon figures out who's kidnapped her, but doesn't reveal it to him, knowing she'd have to be killed. The kidnapper has her take a bath and change. Then he walks her around the house making her touch everything. She is left with a woman who makes her sit down and watch TV.
Later on, the kidnapper returns saying that they got the money. Suddenly, they hear, "Police!" and the woman gives the gun to Christina. The cops think that Christina was the one who asked for the money, trying to get money for the trip. Christina also finds out they dust for fingerprints and find Christina's all over the house (remember, the kidnapper made her touch things). She realizes she was framed, but no one believes her! Will Christina be able to prove her innocence, or will her snooping around kill her? Find out in "The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore!" Also recommended: "Name of the Game Was Murder" By Joan Lowery Nixon
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Summary: I have to admit this book was pretty good.
Review: I have read almost every horror book of Joan Lowery Nixon's, and this one wasn't as good as some of the other ones she has written, such as Spirit Seeker, Secret Silent Screams, or Whispers From the Dead. But it was pretty good. I really didn't understand the ending that much, I think she (the author) could have made it a bit better.
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Summary: Such a good mystery!
Review: I have to admit, the cover was what really got me interested in reading this book, it looked creepy and interesting so I picked it up and read the back, it was a good thing I did because I really got into it. This is about a girl name Christina Lattimore who got kidnapped, and she knows who kidnapped her. The police soon finds out where she is. You are probably thinking The End! What a boring book! But it is just beginning. No one is really sure if Christina actually was kidnapped, they think that she faked it so that she could get the ransom money of her grandmother. Christina soon decided that there must be someone else who thought up of kidnapping her, because someone was able to get her clothes out from her house. So it must be someone who she knew very well...Will she be able to find enough evidence to prove that she is innocent? This is quite a creepy book, I read it at midnight and I have to admit I was quite disturbed. Anyways this book won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery.
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Summary: Kidnapped!!!
Review: I LOVED this book! It's about a girl named Christina Lattimore (duh!) who gets kidnapped. The book gets off the ground kind of slow but then really picks up speed. After Christina is released she is accused of staging the whole thing so she could get enough of the ransom money to go to Paris on a class trip. She has to find out who masterminded the kidnapping to prove her innocence. By the way, don't listen to "A Reader From Wyoming, Illinois,USA" because she/he is talking about "A Candidate For Murder" By Joan Lowery Nixon.
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Summary: The kidnappin of kristina lattimore
Review: I read the kidnapping of Kristina Lattimore because I wanted to start a new series. This was a very intresting book. It was about a teenager girl that has a normal life. At school her class was going a way to somewhere and she wanted to go. However her parents would not pay for her to go and did not want her to go. So she went to her grandmother for money. Although her grandmother would not lend her the money. So one day she was coming home and someone kidnapped her as she was walking from her door. The kidnappers took her to their house and got her to sign a letter. So she signed it. The letter was a ransom the kidnappers had wrote. When her grandmother got it she thought that Kristina had kidnapped herself to get the money to go away. This is a fast moving book. I really enjoyed it.
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Summary: A worthwile read!
Review: I read this book for summer reading (for my school), so I thought it was going to be dorky and "educational" like all other summer reading books. Boy, was I wrong! This is one of my all-time favorite books, because it has a touch of mystery (which I love), a little humor, and it had a habit of keeping me up till midnight reading it! I would definitely reccomend this.
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