num_pages: 192
description: A group of high-school seniors are taken hostage by their history teacher and are forced to write poems, five each, about the experience as well as about the past four years spent attending their urban high school.
language: English
title: The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems
titlecomplete: The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems
genres: Drama, Teen, Fiction, Young Adult, Novels, Poetry, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 253
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
category: Senior
publisher: Dutton Juvenile