Three Days
by Donna Jo Napoli
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When her father suddenly dies while on a business trip leaving her alone on an Italian highway, eleven-year-old Jackie worries what will happen when she is picked up by two men with unknown motives.Tags
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Three Days is about an eleven year old girl named Jackie who is in Italy with her dad on vacation, when all of a sudden as they are driving her dad dies of a heart attack. She is on the side of the road trying to get someones attention, when two men pull up and she gets in their car. She soon realizes they aren't going to get help and she finds herself in trouble. They arrive at a house in the countryside and inside awaits a mother who is thrilled to see Jackie, none of the three people speak English and Jackie is wondering what they want with her. This is a haunting thriller as Jackie fights to escape and figure out the truth. 5th grade and up.
Booktalk: (from jacket) "What if you and your father were driving late at night in a foreign country and he collapsed at the wheel? What if no one stopped as you frantically tried to flag down help? Then...what if two men picked you up but instead of going to the police, they kept on driving?" SPOILER ALERT: Jackie's kidnappers take her to an Italian village home where she is treated well, fed, and given her own room. It is never clear why her captors took her, only that Jackie surmises from the photos of a little girls in one bedroom that the girl died and Jackie was taken to replace her. Somewhat farfetched ending and narrative gets a little sentimental as Jackie warms to the female captor.
A 5th grade girl is kidnapped by a father and son to take the place of their niece who died.
No violence, just a really intense story.
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Wende Sairio (Audiofile, October/November 2002)
Imagine the agony of watching your father collapse and die at the wheel of a rental car, while stranded in a remote area of a foreign country. When two men finally stop to give her a ride, 11-year-old Jackie is thinking only of getting help for her dad. O Unabridged. 2002 (orig. 2001), Recorded Books, Three cassettes, 4.5 hrs., Book pak, $28.00. show more Ages 10 up. show less
Imagine the agony of watching your father collapse and die at the wheel of a rental car, while stranded in a remote area of a foreign country. When two men finally stop to give her a ride, 11-year-old Jackie is thinking only of getting help for her dad. O Unabridged. 2002 (orig. 2001), Recorded Books, Three cassettes, 4.5 hrs., Book pak, $28.00. show more Ages 10 up. show less
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Kidnapping -- children's/young adult fiction
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Donna Jo Napoli was born on February 28, 1948. She received a B.A. in mathematics, an M.A. in Italian literature, and a Ph.D. in general and romance linguistics from Harvard University. She has taught on the university level since 1970, is widely published in scholarly journals, and has received numerous grants and fellowships in the area of show more linguistics. In the area of linguistics, she has authored five books, co-authored six books, edited one book, and co-edited five books. She is also a published poet and co-editor of four volumes of poetry. Her first middle grade novel, Soccer Shock, was published in 1991. Her other novels include the Zel, Beast, The Wager, Lights on the Nile, Skin, Storm, Hidden, and Dark Shimmer. She is also the author of several picture books including Flamingo Dream, The Wishing Club: A Story About Fractions, Corkscrew Counts: A Story About Multiplication, The Crossing, A Single Pearl, and Hands and Hearts. She has received several awards including the New Jersey Reading Association's M. Jerry Weiss Book Award for The Prince of the Pond and the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- Jackie Holt; Claudia
- Important places
- Italy
- Dedication
- For Nick -- thank you
- First words
- "Try some?" Daddy pushes the bowl toward me.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I curl the edge of the bag in my fists and sing inside my head, "Ah, li o li o la."
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- English, German
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- ISBNs
- 14
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