num_pages: 369
description: From the author of the Michael L. Printz awardwinning novel In Darkness comes a critically-acclaimed fast-paced thriller that's as dangerous as the seas on which it's set.The last thing Amy planned to do this summer was sail around the world trapped on a yacht with her father and her stepmother. Really all she wanted was to fast-forward to October when she'll turneighteen and take control of her own life.Aboard the Daisy May Amy spends time sunbathing dolphin watching and forgetting the past as everything floats by . . . until one day in the Gulf of Aden another boat appears. A boat with guns and pirates  the kind that kill.Immediately the pirates seize the boat and its human cargo. Hostage One is Amy's father  the most valuable. Hostage Two: her stepmother. And Hostage Three is Amy who can't believe what's happening. As the ransom brokering plays out Amy finds herself becoming less afraid and evenstranger still drawn to one of her captors a teenage boy who wants desperately to be more than who he has become. Suddenly it becomes brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things . . .
language: English
title: Hostage Three
publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens