Ransom By Lois Duncan

The book I chose is Ransom by Lois Duncan. This is a story about five teenagers, Dexter, Jesse, Bruce, Glenn, and Marianne, that get kidnapped and their parents are contacted to pay a ransom to get them back. The teenagers are from very different backgrounds and have different social statuses at school. They all live in a “rich” known neighborhood called Valley Gardens which is how the kidnappers chose them. Ransom is a crime thriller and the mystery of not knowing what’s going to happen next keeps your reading. This book teaches the reader a lesson about not judging somebody off their looks and what other people say, but to really get to know a person and accept them for who they are. Glenn is the star athlete for the school. He is muscular and tall. He thinks that everybody likes him and wants to be his friend. This makes him seem like he thinks he is better than everybody else. Bruce, however, is Glenn’s little brother he is more into technology. He lives in the shadow of Glenn. He doesn’t mind it though because he looks up to his brother and wants to be like him in many ways. Bruce is the tiny one, he doesn’t look at all like he is Glenn’s little brother because they are so different. Dexter is a very shy, kind of guy. He sits back and watches the world
Three individuals take them into the woods where they hold them prisoner until they get the money they need. The teenagers have issues of their own. Jesse is the average girl, and nobody pays much attention to her. Dexter is the teen that separates himself from everybody as a result of his disability. Glenn is the boy that solely cares only about himself and Bruce is his little brother that cares about others. Marianne is the popular girl with a tousled family. Although they suffer from their circle of relative issues, all of them find themselves teaching one another a