03557cam a2200505 4500 91637484 TxAuBib 20090805120000.0 090720s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009026330 9780545170932 0545170931 (OCoLC)429634703 TxAuBib Christopher, Lucy. Stolen [Print] / Lucy Christopher. Stolen: A Letter to My Captor. 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House, 2010. 304 pages ; 1.08" H x 8.44" L x 6.32" W (0.9 lbs.) Stolen ; 1 Accelerated Reader level 4.3 points 12. Australia. It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere. Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back? The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback. Months when the lines between love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don't exist—almost. 14 to 17. 20150122. Children's Book Council of Australia Award Nominee for Older Readers Book of the Year (2010), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2011), Prime Minister's Literary Awards Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2010), Branford Boase Award (2010), The Inky Awards for Gold Inky (2010), Lincoln Award Nominee (2015), CYBILS Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2010), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2010), Michael L. Printz Award | Honor Book | Young Adult | 2011 ; Cybils | Finalist | Young Adult Fiction | 2010 ; Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens | Recommended | Fourteen and Up | 2011 ; Tayshas Reading | Commended | Young Adult | 2012 ; Iowa High School Book Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2013 - 2014. Kidnapping Fiction. Kidnapping Juvenile fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Interpersonal relations Juvenile fiction. Adventure and adventurers Fiction. Adventure and adventurers Juvenile fiction. Adventure stories. JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age. Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Themes - Sexual.) YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Themes - Sexual.) Australia Fiction. Australia Juvenile fiction. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age. JUVENILE FICTION / Places / Australia & Oceania. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Places / Australia & Oceania. Stolen ; 1. TXTLL