Three Days
By (Author) Donna Jo Napoli
Penguin Putnam Inc
Penguin USA
14th July 2003
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction and true stories
FIC
Winner of Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year.
Paperback
160
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 13mm
130g
While driving in the Italian countryside, eleven-year-old Jackie's father suddenly collapses at the wheel. Fear for her father's life quickly turns to terror when two Italian men kidnap her and drive to their remote home in the countryside. Jackie soon discovers that her captors are actually a family, plagued by a mysterious secret. Award-winning novelist Donna Jo Napoli has created a haunting thriller that gives life to Jackie's utter desperation and determination to escape.
"Nightmarish scenes...a suspenseful reading experience." -School Library Journal
"Taut and suspenseful...the present-tense narration gives it a you-are-there immediacy."-The Horn Book
Donna Jo Napoliis the author ofCrazy Jack,The Magic Circle,Stones in Water, and many other books. She is the chairperson of the linguistics department at Swarthmore College.