The Girl in the Box

The Girl in the Box
Author: Ouida Sebestyen
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-10-20
Genre: Kidnapping
ISBN: 9780440228738

"To Anybody Out There My name is Jackie McGee. I am the girl who disappeared. Listen to the news. See if other pieces of paper are scattered nearby. Maybe if you yell really loud I can hear you and yell back. I am not making this up. Please help! Left in an underground cement room by an unknown captor, Jackie has food and water but no light or human contact. She does not know when--or if--her abductor will retum. As her desperation mounts, Jackie touch-types to focus her mind: letters to her family, a story for her English class, and reflections on her life in the past few months. In her isolation and fear, Jackie is forced to test her emotional boundaries, and in doing so she finds new meaning in her past as well as rich reserves of strength and courage within herself.

The Boy and the Box

The Boy and the Box
Author: Leila Boukarim
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9814928186

A boy sets out on a journey, full of wonder. He comes across an empty box and imagines all the things he can do with it. But when the path he is on splits, the boy must make a decision: to follow the advice of others or to follow his own heart. Specially created for readers aged 5¬–9 Excellent as a teaching tool for the six comprehension strategies: (1) making connection, (2) asking questions, inferring,(4) visualising, (5) determining importance and (6) summarising Explores the complex issues of growing up and making choices, and demonstrates the importance of being true to yourself

Box Girl

Box Girl
Author: Lilibet Snellings
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1619023628

When 22-year-old Lilibet Snellings moved to Los Angeles on a whim, she unintentionally became a “slash” to keep her head above water—a writer/waitress/actress/Box Girl. One night each week, Lilibet would go to The Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, don a pair of white boy shorts with a matching tank, touch up her lip gloss, and crawl into a giant glass case behind the front desk. There, she could do whatever she wanted—check email, catch up on reading, even sleep—as long as she ignored the many hotel guests who would point and ask the staff, “Is she allowed to use the bathroom?” (Yes.) Dog-paddling through her twenties, Snellings resisted financial bailouts (for the most part) from her sweet Southern mother and business-oriented dad, while pondering her peculiar position as a human art installation. Was she a piece of art or a piece of ass? Was she allowed to read both Walt Whitman and US Weekly as she lounged in an oversized, waterless aquarium behind a hotel concierge desk? From misinterpreting a modeling agency interview as a talent audition, to avoiding Bond-girl-style deaths at New Year’s Eve parties, Snellings shares and laughs at her many mishaps while living in LA.

Box Girl

Box Girl
Author: Sarah Withrow
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554984696

Gwen's mother ran away five years ago. Now Gwen is receiving postcards from her that promise a reunion -- postcards with French stamps and no return address. Gwen is sure that it is only a matter of time before her mother sends for her. Until then, she plans to be a loner. After all, there's no point in making friends you are just going to leave behind. But then Gwen meets Clara, the new girl in the grade eight class, who behaves oddly and is determined to befriend Gwen. But, even though Gwen is drawn to her, the more she finds out about Clara's life, the less she wants to tell about her own. In Gwen and Clara, Sarah Withrow has created two utterly believable thirteen-year-olds who struggle to sort out their place with friends, school and family.

The Girl in the Box Series, Books 1-3

The Girl in the Box Series, Books 1-3
Author: Robert J. Crane
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2018-12-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781791618674

From Million-Selling Author Robert J. Crane...Her mother is missing. A psychotic beast is stalking her. How will she escape?AloneSienna Nealon was a 17 year-old girl who had been held prisoner in her own house by her mother for twelve years. Then one day her mother vanished, and Sienna woke up to find two strange men in her home. On the run, unsure of who to turn to and discovering she possesses mysterious powers, Sienna finds herself pursued by a shadowy agency known as the Directorate and hunted by a vicious, bloodthirsty psychopath named Wolfe, each of which is determined to capture her for their own purposes...UntouchedStill haunted by her last encounter with Wolfe and searching for her mother, Sienna Nealon must put aside her personal struggles when a new threat emerges

Perfect Victim

Perfect Victim
Author: Christine McGuire
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2013-03-12
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0062284525

A true story of riveting psychological intensity by the assistant D.A. who prosecuted the captor of "the girl in the box". Called the "sex slave," and "the girl in the box" case, this is the story behind Colleen Stan's terrifying, seven-year-long imprisonment by Cameron Hooker as told by the district attorney who tried the case. Too bizarre to be anything but true, it is a tale of riveting intensity and gripping courtroom drama.

Little Girls in Pretty Boxes

Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
Author: Joan Ryan
Publisher: Doubleday
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0307828557

A sports reporter investigates the training of girls as professional gymnasts and figure skaters, arguing that the pressure to succeed and to look beautiful results in mental and physical harm, from eating disorders to psychological trauma.

The Girl in the Glass Box

The Girl in the Glass Box
Author: James Grippando
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2019
Genre: FICTION
ISBN: 9781643852263

"James Grippando's crusader Jack Swyteck is back in his sixteenth adventure, a timely and pulse-pounding thriller"--

Silver Tongue

Silver Tongue
Author: Robert J Crane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2021-08
Genre:
ISBN:

When a smooth operator attacks one of Sienna's friends, she is drawn into a scheme of terror run by one Fortune Renard. Smooth and debonair, Renard seems to be everything Sienna has been lacking in her life. Except the whole supervillain thing. She's had plenty of those cross her path. But everything is not as it seems with Renard, and with every turn and escalation of his plan, Sienna is left wondering - is Renard a villain? An ally? Or is he after something else entirely? Something, like, say...Sienna herself.