title: Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America
author:  Paula S. Fass 
description: <br />"A rare combination of riveting narrative and acute, provocative historical and cultural analysis."--Sissela Bok, Harvard University
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  # ABOUT THIS BOOK
  
  Snatched
  
  
  STEPHEN EDGER
  
  
  
  
  
  Approximately one hundred and fifty thousand children go missing in the U.K.
  every year. That’s one child every three and a half minutes.
  
  
  ABDUCTION
  
  
  Every parent’s worst nightmare: seven year-old Natalie Barrett is snatched on
  Friday afternoon walking home from school. The police begin a desperate hunt
  to find her before it is too late. They fear the worst when a body is located
  near a golf course.
  
  
  THE FALLOUT
  
  
  Sarah Jenson is Natalie’s teacher. When one of the detectives on the case is
  suddenly killed, Sarah believes the events may be linked and begins to search
  for answers. With suspects stacking up, she is in a race against time to
  discover the true identity of the perpetrator before Natalie winds up as
  another statistic.
  
  
  UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
  
  
  Where were Natalie’s parents when they should have been collecting her? Why
  was Natalie so scared of her Uncle Jimmy? Could a convicted sexual offender
  from Sara