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| Captives | 
enlarge | Author: Tom Pow Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Category: Book
List Price: $17.95 Buy New: $8.96 You Save: $8.99 (50%)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 1 reviews Sales Rank: 941251
Media: Hardcover Reading Level: Young Adult Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 192 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1596432012 EAN: 9781596432017 ASIN: 1596432012
Publication Date: May 1, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Martin and his family are enjoying a sun-filled vacation on a beautiful Caribbean island--until they are stopped at gunpoint, blindfolded, and bundled into a truck that heads for the dense forest of the island's interior. Pushed to their physical and emotional limits as they are forced deeper into the wild terrain, the hostages come to understand something of the harsh political backdrop of life on sunny Santa Clara, and the events that have shaped the lives of their captors and fueled their actions.
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Made me think, but didn't tug at my heart strings July 23, 2008 Two families go on vacation, but get taken captive by guerrillas. The book chronicles the families with their captors from two perspectives. One is a journal, written by Martin's father. The other is third person and includes back stories, but created by Martin. The book emphasizes the complications of third world terrorism and the multiple perspectives. It isn't terribly personal and sometimes falls short in emotion. It was very interesting, though. Haha, and I liked the "bad guys" better than some of the "victims."
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