Stolen

A Michael L. Printz Honor Book

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults

A 2011 USBBY Outstanding International Book

Complicated and beautiful -- this novel left me doubting my emotions and missing a place I'd never been.” -- Maggie Stiefvater

All the tension of lightning, all the terror of thunder. A stunning, scary, and beautiful book.”-- John Marsden

* An emotionally raw thriller a haunting account of captivity and the power of relationships.” -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

Disturbing, heartbreaking, and beautiful all at once.” -- School Library Journal

A complex psychological study that is also a tribute to the hypnotic beauty of the Outback.” -- Booklist

Taut suspense and a riveting plot in a haunting setting.” -- Kirkus

Has a veracity and immediacy that rivets the reader to the page. Fascinating, disturbing...” -- Voice of Youth Advocates

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"Complicated and beautiful -- this novel left me doubting my emotions and missing a place I'd never been." -- Maggie Stiefvater

"All the tension of lightning, all the terror of thunder. A stunning, scary, and beautiful book." -- John Marsden

"A vivid new voice for teens." -- Melvin Burgess

TheDailyBeast.com, 10 Hot Young Adult titles” roundup, September 16, 2010

BCCB, review, June 2010
[A]n interesting book for examining what obsessive Twilight-style approaches to love can mean in a real-life context Readers who can't get enough of Cormier's classic After the First Death will find this induces both shivers and thought.”

Booklist, review, March 15, 2010
Christopher's first novel is a complex psychological study that is also a tribute to
the hypnotic beauty of the outback.”

Kirkus, review, April 15, 2010
From its compelling opening, the novel delivers taut suspense and a riveting plot in a haunting setting.”

Publishers Weekly, starred review, April 12, 2010
Christopher's debut is an emotionally raw thriller fast-paced novel It's a haunting account of captivity and the power of relationships.”

School Library Journal, review, June 2010
Disturbing, heartbreaking, and beautiful all at once, this book is the antithesis of the situational horror in Elizabeth Scott's Living Dead Girl.”

VOYA, review, June 2010
Stolen has a veracity and immediacy that rivets the reader to the page. Vivid descriptions of the Sandy Desert combine with Gemma's emotional turmoil to evoke a sense of danger. This fascinating, disturbing novel should appeal to teens fourteen and older.”

A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!

Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.