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Araysa's Book Review

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Araysa's book review

 

 

 I will be doing a book review on a book called “The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore” written by Joan Lower Nixon. This book was awarded an Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. This book is about a 16 year old girl named Christina Lattimore who will be graduating in a year. Christina goes to an all-girls school. Her class is going to France, but her dad is a strong religious man and doesn’t like what they will be teaching when the go to France so he says that she can’t go. Christina’s Grandmother who likes to be called Cristobel, is very rich and has a trust fund for her. Christina goes to her grandmother and asks if she can use the money that’s in the trust fund to go to France but she says no too. Christina is then kidnapped and she gets put to sleep, when she wakes up she's in a basement. The man that kidnaps her comes down to the basement, the voice sounds familiar it’s Zack! The creepy guy that kept staring at her at her in the hamburger shop!  He threatens her, if she doesn’t sign the note asking her grandmother for money she won’t get any food. A couple days after the note was sent, the police finally find her, there’s not much evidence that she was kidnapped. Christina thinks there’s a third person involved. Zack and his wife Loretta say the third person is her, and she was going to use the money. Christina is trying to prove her innocence with the help of her small crush T.J Kelly. 

 

I personally loved this book because it keeps you on the edge of your seat, it keeps you thinking. It’s not one of those books that you can easily predict. The ending was so unpredictable! Another thing that I love about this book is the things that Christina says toward the end of the book, the quote that I loved the most was “But the Christina I feel inside me now reminds me of those potted spring bulbs with tiny shoots strong enough to break through pebbles packed over them, strong enough to reach up to the light and grow and grow and bloom and fulfill themselves. I am the shoot... and I know I’ve got a long way to grow and bloom , but it’s good knowing I’ve got a direction now. It will take a lot more thought, a lot more discovery, but I know where I’m going. That’s what counts.” I like this quote because I can kind of relate to it.

 

I would definitely recommend this book. It’s a great mystery. The ending is very unpredictable. It involves a little bit of drama that everybody can relate to.  The people I think that would love this book the most are people that love drama, surprises, characters that you can relate to, or the people that love mysteries.

Comments (1)

AKabodian said

at 7:04 pm on Mar 16, 2013

Thanks for sharing your book review, especially the quote you chose.

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