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Now in paperback, the acclaimed Printz Honor Book: Sensitive, sharp, captivating!

A girl: Gemma, 16, at the airport, on her way to a family vacation.

A guy: Ty, rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar, eyes blue as ice.

She steps away. For just a second. He pays for her drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. To sand and heat. To emptiness and isolation. To nowhere. And expects her to love him.

Written as a letter from a victim to her captor, STOLEN is Gemma's desperate story of survival; of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.

A Michael L. Printz Honor Book * ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * A 2011 USBBY Outstanding International Book

*"An emotionally raw thriller."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Disturbing, heartbreaking, and beautiful all at once." --School Library Journal

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Grade 9 Up While 16-year-old Gemma is en route to Vietnam from England with her parents, she is drugged and kidnapped from the Bangkok airport. She regains full consciousness in a rustic house deep in the Australian Outback with a 25-year-old man who is going to keep her forever. Ty never sexually abuses her, but she is truly a captive. Little by little, Ty wears down her defenses as Gemma realizes that escape is impossible. Soon she discovers the stark power and vibrancy of the wilderness and becomes absorbed in it. She also learns that Ty has been stalking her for years, devising a crafty plan to steal her away to make her love him which she ultimately believes she does. Ty's capture, taming, and release of a female camel effectively parallels Gemma's ordeal. Her unique first-person narrative is written to Ty after her release. Both characters are as vivid as the desert setting in which they are immersed. Despite the fact that Ty is a kidnapper, the revelations about his difficult youth and his usually caring behavior allow readers, like Gemma, to eventually care about him. Disturbing, heartbreaking, and beautiful all at once, this book is the antithesis of the situational horror in Elizabeth Scott's Living Dead Girl (S & S, 2008). Diane P. Tuccillo, Poudre River Public Library District, Fort Collins, CO
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Drugged and kidnapped from her parents at the Bangkok airport, English teen Gemma wakes to find herself in the weirdly beautiful but desolate Australian outback. Her only company is her captor, a handsome young Australian named Ty, who is obsessed with her. Indeed, he tells her that he has been watching her since she was a child and now plans to keep her with him forever. Told in the form of a letter Gemma is writing to Ty, Christopher’s first novel is a complex psychological study that is also a tribute to the hypnotic beauty of the outback, which Ty passionately loves and feels has been “stolen” by those who would exploit it for gain. Though Gemma at first hates both her kidnapper and the landscape, she gradually begins to warm toward both. Some readers may feel the novel is weighted down by too much symbolism (if the outback is Edenic, watch out for a serpent!) and find Ty to be too sympathetic a character, but at the same time these potential drawbacks offer ample opportunity for thought and discussion. Grades 9-12. --Michael Cart --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Chicken House; Reprint edition (April 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 054517094X
ISBN-13: 978-0545170949
Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.2 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 472 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #23 in Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Social & Family Issues > Physical & Emotional Abuse
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- #1064 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary

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An Enjoyable Read Despite the Exaggerated Play on Romance

ByAmazon Customeron December 18, 2015

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This story was incredibly gripping and compelling and I almost couldn't put it down (until I had to oblige to other responsibilities in my life). Gemma, a high school girl who is on vacation with her parents, gets kidnapped by Ty, a handsomely tan and older man, who takes her from the Bangkok Airport and to the Australian Outback. Uncertain exactly why Ty has kidnapped her, Gemma is surprised to learn that it is more than just to fulfill a stalker obsession. Yet, Gemma still fights to stay alive in the deserted landscape full of poisonous spiders and dangerous snakes.

The plot did not quite go where I thought it was going to go and I had a lot of mixed feelings about the characters and the ending. Although I wasn't as fond of the romance aspect of this novel (because I felt it downplayed the novel as a young adult romance from the initial psychological young adult thriller that I anticipated it being, the characters and the setting of the story were quite captivating. There was so much more to Gemma's life than meets the eye, Ty isn't as much of a psychopath as he is played up to be, and the description of the Australian Outback is both incredibly beautiful and powerful, at times almost feeling as if I could in fact be in that hot and exotic environment. Overall, the novel was compelling in several ways despite the exaggeration of romance in it and I would recommend it to anyone that loves a good young adult novel that gives readers a wonderful sense of a beautiful Australian landscape.

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I don't usually go for this genre, but was deeplysurprised

ByPaolaon June 18, 2016

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I give this books 4 stars I really loved how is different in terms of writing and how the story is told. Since the beginning you know that she make is out (escapes/rescued) but you don't know what happened and how it happened so this makes the reader keep reading to find out. I do think that in the middle of the book, before the climax it gets a bit slow and difficult to read. Difficult because you start to meet Ty and the reader start to feel that maybe Gemma's feeling aren't necessarily misplaced. Of course, the authors makes the Stockholm syndrome pretty obvious, but Gemma's actions make you feel that there's something going on. The only thing that was a bit of a bummer its the fact that I didn't feel such a character development at the end of the story for Gemma. I thought her feelings will be clearer, but I understand its hard for her to figure everything out. I love the story and yes, it had some surprises along the way. I recommend this book.

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Stolen from Life and Grown with Beauty

ByMcKenzie Blackmanon June 2, 2016

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

Gemma is a normal young girl goes to school, struggles to fit well with her peers, and doubting her parent's love. Soon her entire life is turned upside down and finds herself abducted from the Bangkok airport by a man she knows, but can't remember why. He is young and striking, coercing her into drinking a coffee he purchased and spiked for her. She wakes up and finds herself in the middle of nowhere, in a dry, hot desert with her capture. As she struggles through trying to understand who he is and why he chose her, she also finds more about herself along the journey.

Gemma's story is told through her eyes in a letter to her abductor, experiencing the moments of confused emotions, fear, and hope. This was a great read, that only took a short time to get through. A great rainy day book. I give this a four star review for the readability and the author's skill at enticing our minds to live with her capture for those weeks.

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Bored now...

ByLindsayon October 22, 2016

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I don't have a problem with the POV or even the subject matter. I've read Stockholm Syndrome books before, so I can handle the subject matter. The issue I have is the story drags so much! I'm so bored with both of them that I don't even have the energy to finish this. I realize Gemma is probably in shock but her narration is so flat and emotionless that I feel NOTHING! At this point I don't even care what happens to Gemma. Such an incredible disappointment...

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Very uneventful

ByNick Evanson June 14, 2016

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This book started out great. It caught my attention from the beginning and then it crashed, burned, and failed miserably. Three quarters of this book was just rambling about what happened day in and day out with these two. No details. No emotion. No character connection. Nothing.

The end (last 20%) redeemed itself some which is what allowed me to give it another star. Overall very poorly done. A much better option with a similar story line is Paper Swan by Leylah Attar.

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Who holds the truth?

ByTug Boat Sherylon May 30, 2016

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I loved this book. I loved that it was an open letter to the kidnapper.
I loved the character development in the lines of the story and the plot.
I held my breath to see if Gemma was going to live or die.
. I sweated out the anxious trip to Perth for emergency intervention.
I cried when she said good- bye to the camel. ..and good- bye to Ty.
I loved that Ty saved her as a young girl and as his captive, his love- however jumbled- "Greater love hath no man than this: That he lay down his life for his friend". - his love saved her. He loved her. She loved him. I wonder what would have happened after 4 months? My mind is still buzzing back and forth from this book I couldn't put down.

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