Ransom

by: Lois Duncan

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Five were missing on a terrifying ride into a nightmare.

Average Rating:

Rating: - Ransom Book Review
This book is about a group of five kids who are riding the school bus home, and get kidnapped by the substitute driver. They are held for ransom in a faraway cabin, where they are treated harshly by the kidnappers until the ransom is paid. I found this book to be unimaginably captivating and interesting from the very start. The beginning and ending could not have been better, in my opinion. I truly love how Lois Duncan utilized great imagery to vividly portray all the settings and events in the ... Read More

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Rating: - Ransom book review by TLVK
After reading "Ransom" by Lois Duncan, I've decided to write a review on it. First of all, I really liked the book. It all starts out with a simple, regular seeming bus ride home for all the kids. Little do they know that their substitute bus driver is a kidnapper. Buck(the bus driver) purposely misses the stop for the rich kids to get off the bus. This is when the kids start worrying. He takes them to a gas station where Juan and Rita(his friends helping him)are there. Juan calls the families ... Read More

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Rating: - A Great Book
Ransom is a book about 5 teens in High School who get kidnapped. The tennagers, Bruce, Glenn, Marianne, Dexter, and Jesse have rich families or so the kidnappers think. When the teens get on the bus, they realize they have a sub bus driver. The driver doesn't know the routes, so Bruce sits in the front and tells the driver where to go. After all the kids are dropped off, the driver ignores the 5 teens left. This when they realize that they are being kidnapped. The kidnappers take the teens to the Rocky ... Read More

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Rating: - Early teen suspense, but holds up for the most part
This will be a mini-review, instead of a full one, since the book in question is less than 150 pages long and told in the omniscient viewpoint, so character complexity is minimal. Lois Duncan was rather the R.L. Stine of the X generation, except that she wrote for a slightly older audience and was more psychologically creepy than blood-and-gore. Her stories weren't the type made for around-the-campfire telling; they'd take too long to explain in full. I remember reading and enjoying this one, Ransom, ... Read More

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Rating: - Ransom
Ransom, by Lois Duncan, is a very good book. It is a realistic fiction book.
In Ransom five kids from a rich neighborhood are kidnapped and kept for ransom, but only a few families are able to stretch their money and use it for the ransom. This book is about what the kids, and parents, go through when the kids are kidnapped.
Ransom was a very good book and keeps you interested throughout the whole entire book. If you like exciting and exhilarating books you will love this one.