Lake, Nick Hostage Three, 368 pages; Bloomsbury Children’s
Books, 2013. $17.99. Approximately 20
swear words, 13 F words.
This is Amy Field’s story. Her mother had suffered from mental illness
most of Amy’s life, but when her mom commits suicide and her dad remarries with
in the year, the wheels come off of Amy’s life.
To “fix” things, Amy’s Dad buys an elegant yacht and plans a six month
trip around the world. The adventure of
a lifetime turns into a fight for a lifetime when Somali pirates hi-jack the
yacht and Amy becomes Hostage Three. The
language is tough, there is one very brutal scene that starts out as an
attempted rape and ends up as an execution, but the book has an excellent
moral. At the end of the book sullen
broken Amy realizes that broken can be fixed.
Mature themes PG13, violence PG13 maybe R but interesting story and background
material make it palatable. High School
interest level, a hesitant yes on the recommendation.
HS – OPTIONAL.
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