Have you ever heard of the author, Peg Kehret? Well let me be the first to tell you that she’s spectacular at writing mysteries. She wrote these two amazing books, ABDUCTION! (right) and Stolen Children (left). In the book, ABDUCTION!, a boy named Matt Sholter never knew his father. Not even in picture. Not until the afternoon he went missing by his father, Denny Thurman from a bathroom trip. No one notice he was missing until Bonnie Sholter, Matt’s sister, notice Matt wasn’t on the bus. She and the school teachers check through the whole school and Matt wasn’t found. Meanwhile, Matt was in the car with his father after being lured into the car by his dog, Pookie, was headed to Denny’s apartment. Matt thought he was heading to the vet for Pookie's illness. As they headed home Denny forgot Matt needed to use the bathroom. So he found a place that had a bathroom. When Matt came out and climbed into the car, Pookie left tied to a post purposely. After searching the school Bonnie and Matt’s mother, Mrs. Sholter got there. Denny has disguised as an UPS worker and held a box and a clipboard supposedly to mail the box to the library, but went to look for his son. The woman at the desk, Mrs. William, didn’t notice whether he signed back out and return the visitors badge. Denny kept the boy for over a week. Denny watched movies and gambled on boxers and race horses. Denny also tried to show Matt how to play the P.S.3; he got angry when Matt could not play correctly. So he played it himself. Meanwhile, Mrs. Sholter tried to help Officer Calvin to get clues. As Bonnie and Mrs. Sholter got home, Officer Calvin introduced Detective Morrison and her canine partner. Mrs. Sholter ordered Bonnie to lock up the kitchen just in case Pookie smelled the canine. As Bonnie looked, Pookie was nowhere to be found. Now a child and a dog are now missing. Meanwhile, Pookie was found by an elderly couple who called him Monty since he didn’t have his collar. Bonnie and Mrs. Sholter got help by neighbors, including neighbors they didn’t even know, helped out putting posters of Matt. People help out by bring them food or making food in their own house knowing that Mrs. Sholter was stressed out. Out of the blue, Mrs. Sholter’s boss offered $10,000 for the information that leads to the safe return of Matt. Amber Alert was used and the news reporters were outside bugging around. Eight days later, on Saturday, Denny got some tickets to the Pirates baseball game for Matt. Denny had planned to visit his sister, Celia, and his brother-in-law, Winston, to show off his son Matt but as in Travis. At the same time, Bonnie’s track team went to the same game; Bonnie thought it wasn’t right to go have fun while Matt was still abducted. By the 6th inning in the game, Bonnie spotted a boy that did the same gestures as Matt; the boy looked different, he had black hair and glasses. But then Bonnie remembered Detective Morrison say the abductor might change the physical feature of Matt. She still went to investigate herself. Denny was having some problems about owing money. He got a phone call saying he had a deadline to pay the debt. So he left the game so that he could ask his sister for money. As they left Bonnie caught up with them, and Denny took her, warning her not to scream; he had a gun. On the way to the car, Matt was in need to use the bathroom. They went inside a restaurant and ask to use the bathroom. Bonnie and Matt went into the woman’s restroom and she attempted her escape with her brother. Her attempted failed when she tried to flag down a car. Denny stopped her and act like their father and scared the driver away. Later on, they took a taxi to the ferry to get to his sister. During the ride, Bonnie told Denny that she will tell his sister everything that’s happening if he doesn’t let her go. So he decides to shoot her. Meanwhile Detective Morrison was asking questions to Bonnie's track team. Matt throws the ball at him before Denny could shoot Bonnie. It hits him on the neck causing him to drop the gun and fall. Bonnie immediately grabs the gun and throws it over board while Matt starts screaming for help. The ferry workers and the other adult s hurried to their aid and took Denny down. As they got to shore, police came aboard and arrested Denny. Bonnie and Matt got home safely. And then everybody was happy. In the book of Stolen Children, a girl got kidnapped with her babysitter, Amy by 2 armed men. The purpose of kidnapping Kendra was to get a ransom after five days of keeping Kendra hostage. They didn’t know Amy was going to be there to babysit Kendra, so they took Amy just in case she calls the police. Every day the kidnappers, Hugh and Smokey, would take videos of Amy and Kendra so that their parents could get more anxious about getting their children back. At the fifth day of the being kidnapped, Smokey took a video of Kendra sleeping and announced the ransom of five hundred thousand dollars. After the announcement, Smokey stop recording and put DVD in an envelope and went to mail the DVD. At the afternoon, when Smokey came back, Hugh started a big argument about a missing gun, when Amy dropped it in the toilet of the outhouse. When Smokey left the engine running, Amy got in the car with Kendra and drove away. The car stopped before it got to the main road but far enough to be away from Smokey and Hugh. The thing left to honk the horn and wave their hands in case helicopter or a car past by. In less than second a helicopter saw her and they called the Detective Rockford and came to her aid in minutes. Smokey and Hugh were arrested immediately. After that Amy and Kendra went home with Detective Rockford. Kendra’s nanny, Darielle Monroe, was also arrested for planning the kidnapping. Later, during the reunion of Amy and Kendra with their parents, Kendra’s mother, Mrs. Edgerton offered Amy to be full time baby-sitter. She gladly accepted the offer. She knew her dad would be proud of her.
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