Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realiz...
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Nov 07, 2011
Cara
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From the get go we know what we are going to get. Cheyenne is blind and is accidentally kidnapped by a young man named Griffin. Unbeknowst to him she is in the Escalade, and he is in a world of trouble to say the least. At first he just doesn't have any idea what to do with her, but his dad finds out that she is the daughter of a CEO, and a CEO for Nike at that. Cheyenne knows she has the disadvantage here. She's blind and sick with pneumonia; she is not in top fighting shape. Can she dare hope
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Jul 01, 2010
Eva
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The YA genre has not stopped surprising me. Everytime I crack a YA book I have a fear deep down inside that it'll be so childish I'll cringe. While there certainly have been a few like that most are not and this falls in the latter category.
Henry's biggest feat here, in my opinion, is Cheyenne's blindess. Everything that she went through is suspenseful. Add in blindness and it throws it all right through the roof. I kept think, in almost every single situation, how scared I'd be if it was More...
Henry's biggest feat here, in my opinion, is Cheyenne's blindess. Everything that she went through is suspenseful. Add in blindness and it throws it all right through the roof. I kept think, in almost every single situation, how scared I'd be if it was More...
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Dec 22, 2011
Sarah
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4 1/2 stars. Wow this book was really good I didn't expect it to enjoy it this much I thought it would just be more the fun read it but it turned out to be great page turner.
The twisting the story were amazing Cheyenne is intelligent and she's very cunning and brave and strong and independent and I loved everything about her.
And I love to hate the bad guys and story they we're brutal and actually bad bad-guys.
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The twisting the story were amazing Cheyenne is intelligent and she's very cunning and brave and strong and independent and I loved everything about her.
And I love to hate the bad guys and story they we're brutal and actually bad bad-guys.
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Apr 21, 2011
Valerie
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A book about a blind girl who gets kidnapped. Well that sounds good to me. The girl's name is Cheyenne and her kidnapper is a boy named Griffin. He didn't kidnap her on purpose but still it creates a problem.
The book is in both Cheyenne's point of view as well as Griffin's. When I was reading Cheyenne's point of view I was very aware of it; it felt like I was seeing the way she would picture it in her head. When I was reading Griffin's it was the same.
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The book is in both Cheyenne's point of view as well as Griffin's. When I was reading Cheyenne's point of view I was very aware of it; it felt like I was seeing the way she would picture it in her head. When I was reading Griffin's it was the same.
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Jan 05, 2011
Brandy
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I was very excited when this book came in. Being new to Goodreads' giveaways, this was the first one I won and received. Opening the package, I pulled out a short, 224 page book with the cover art as seen above. The teaser for the book is that 16 year old Cheyenne Wilder, blind for three years, is kidnapped after begging her stepmother to leave the keys in the ignition of their high-end SUV while she goes into the pharmacy to pick up Cheyenne's prescription for pneumonia.
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Jan 17, 2012
Stacey
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Woah, I wasn't expecting this. I loved it. Cheyanne was this strong willed girl who had been through so much, and then to get accidentally kidnapped, and with all the plot twists and turns and the information overload at some points, it worked this book just worked. I wish it had been longer, but for being such a short book I really liked it. Griffin was such a great character as well, I loved the dual POV for this book. Getting to see both sides of how they each felt about the situation and how
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Jan 04, 2012
Belann
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This book will really pull you in. It begins with sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder curled up in the back seat of her car while her step-mother goes in to get a prescription filled for Cheyenne's pneumonia. Her step mother has left the keys in the car so Cheyenne can turn the heat on if she gets cold. The keys in the Escalade are an open invitation to Griffin, who ends up stealing the car with Cheyenne in the back seat. The situation turns from bad to worse, however, because we soon learn that
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Jan 03, 2012
Amanda (Born Bookish)
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I found it hard to choose a rating for this book. It was a page-turner for sure, it was impeccably written, but it was also about what I consider to be dark subject matter.
This book made me feel like I was reading an episode of Without a Trace or another one of those crime dramas. I usually don’t like reading books about this kind of stuff. So my first reaction to a book about a young blind girl who gets kidnapped was No Thank You! But then I started to read a lot of good things about More...
This book made me feel like I was reading an episode of Without a Trace or another one of those crime dramas. I usually don’t like reading books about this kind of stuff. So my first reaction to a book about a young blind girl who gets kidnapped was No Thank You! But then I started to read a lot of good things about More...
Dec 22, 2011
Cheyanne Wilder is not having a good day. She has pneumonia and is waiting for her stepmom to pick up her prescription. When the car she is waiting in is stolen by a small time thief it officially becomes the second worst day of her life. What could be worse? The day her mom was killed and Cheyanne became blind.
Not realizing what he has done until it is too late, Griffin must now take the car back to his abusive father with the added inconvenience of a kidnapped teenager in the back More...
Not realizing what he has done until it is too late, Griffin must now take the car back to his abusive father with the added inconvenience of a kidnapped teenager in the back More...
Dec 10, 2011
Cheyenne
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Oh jeez, where do I begin? I initially picked up this book due to the shocking similarity between the main character and I's names. It's quite rare to find a fictional character I share my first name with, let alone have a similar last name. I wasn't too gung-ho about the plot, but I felt a strong urge to find out whether or not I felt Cheyenne was "worthy" of sharing a name with.
Then everything took a turn. I was hooked before the end of the first chapter. Somehow, April Hen More...
Then everything took a turn. I was hooked before the end of the first chapter. Somehow, April Hen More...
Nov 13, 2011
Diana
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Girl, Stolen
By April Henry
213 pgs
ISBN 0805090053
Cheyenne Wilder is not a normal sixteen-year-old who has no sicknesses or anything that affects her health and body. She is one who not only has pneumonia, but is also blind. Sleeping in her car while her mother was at the pharmacy, Griffin steals their car, not knowing Cheyenne's existence. Unintentionally, Griffin had kidnapped Cheyenne; but when his father knew that her father was the president of a powerful corpora More...
By April Henry
213 pgs
ISBN 0805090053
Cheyenne Wilder is not a normal sixteen-year-old who has no sicknesses or anything that affects her health and body. She is one who not only has pneumonia, but is also blind. Sleeping in her car while her mother was at the pharmacy, Griffin steals their car, not knowing Cheyenne's existence. Unintentionally, Griffin had kidnapped Cheyenne; but when his father knew that her father was the president of a powerful corpora More...
Nov 09, 2011
Jodi
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A few months ago, I read (and LOVED!) Lucy Christopher's Stolen. Yesterday, while searching for something to read, I pulled this title off the shelf. It sounded like it had a similar idea to it but with a little bit of a twist so I decided to give it a go.
Cheyenne, daughter of Nike's president, is waiting in the backseat of her family's Escalade when Griffin jumps in and steals it. When Griffin realizes that Cheyenne is in the back seat, he decides the best thing to do is cont More...
Cheyenne, daughter of Nike's president, is waiting in the backseat of her family's Escalade when Griffin jumps in and steals it. When Griffin realizes that Cheyenne is in the back seat, he decides the best thing to do is cont More...
Oct 23, 2011
Toneeshia
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Girl, Stolen is a contemporary realistic fictional book intended for advanced aged children. It has won the American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults, American Library Association Quick Picks for Young Award, Maryland Black- Eyed Susan award Maser List, and others. Girl, Stolen is about a car thief named Griffin accidentally kidnapping blind 16- year old Cheyenne while she napped in her stepmother's Escalade. Griffin takes her to his home and soon before she is to be released by G
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Sep 16, 2011
Amy
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It would be horrifying in itself just to be kidnapped as a teenager, but add in the fact that you are blind and it has to be the worst thing imaginable! When I first received Girl Stolen, for some reason I kept shoving the book to the back of my reading stack. The book wasn't really on my radar and I hadn't read many reviews at the time for it. So when I finally picked it up again, I decided to give it a go and see what it was all about.
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Aug 09, 2011
Karen
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When high-school dropout Griffin impulsively steals a luxury SUV from a shopping mall parking lot he doesn’t notice until it’s too late that a 16-year-old girl (Cheyenne) is in the back seat. Now his car heist has turned into an accidental kidnapping with several twists: Cheyenne is sick with pneumonia, is blind and just happens to have a very wealthy father. The rest of the book details feisty Cheyenne’s attempts to survive the clutches of Griffin’s unsavory father and his 2 friends, while
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Jun 26, 2011
Charlene
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Sick with pneumonia, sixteen year old Cheyenne Wilder is asleep in the back of the car while her stepmother runs into the pharmacy to get Cheyenne’s prescription filled. Suddenly Cheyenne wakes up and realizes someone is driving the car and it isn’t her stepmother - the car has been stolen. In the parking lot, Griffin had seen the keys in the ignition of the Escalade and decided to steal it. Little did he know there was a surprise in the backseat - Cheyenne. Girl Stolen tells the story of wh
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Jun 06, 2011
Monica!
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There's a reason, friends, that we're given book cover flaps to read prior to starting the actual novel. The flap serves as kind of an appetizer -- a precursor to the main event, if you will. Which is why I should have actually READ the flap of Girl, Stolen, instead of being lured in by the awesome cover. It would have warned me of the utter Meh I was soon to be taking part in.
No, for realsies. Here's a direct quote: "How will Cheyenne survive this nightmare because she's not More...
No, for realsies. Here's a direct quote: "How will Cheyenne survive this nightmare because she's not More...
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Apr 29, 2011
Em
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A blind girl gets "accidentally" kidnapped by a guy... sounds intriguing, yes? That's what I thought.
Warning, this review may contain spoileritos :)
This book doesn't waste any time on setting up the story, instead we're thrown right into it. I liked that, since all the backstory came later anyway. We were immediatelt in the center of the plot, and along for the ride.
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Warning, this review may contain spoileritos :)
This book doesn't waste any time on setting up the story, instead we're thrown right into it. I liked that, since all the backstory came later anyway. We were immediatelt in the center of the plot, and along for the ride.
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Apr 02, 2011
Colleen
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It could be this book suffered in my estimation because I read it immediately after Miles from Ordinary which was just exceptional, but I also thought it compared unfavorably to What Happened to Cass McBride? Though there are compelling elements to the story of the accidental kidnapping of a blind teenager who turns out to be the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, there are too many elements toward the end that do not pass the smell test. The book has a strong opening, and Henry does a great j
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Feb 02, 2011
Alyssa (The Shady Glade)
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I won't add a plot summary, since there are plenty of reviews here that can give you an idea of what the book is about. But basically Cheyenne is resting in the backseat of her stepmother's car when Griffin slips in and steals the car while her stepmother is inside the pharmacy. Things are further complicated by the fact that Cheyenne is blind.
After reading several books with the kidnapping plot element, I think this one does it the best that I've read. But in the end, the length More...
After reading several books with the kidnapping plot element, I think this one does it the best that I've read. But in the end, the length More...
Dec 22, 2010
Aik Chien
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As you can read from the synopsis, the protagonist Cheyenne is sick and blind. But her bad luck doesn't end there. When her stepmother, Danielle drives her to a pharmacy to get medicine supplies, she asks her to leave the key in the ignition to keep her warm. Then, when someone enters the car, she realizes from the person's micro-behaviours that he/she is definitely not Danielle. That's when reality hits - her car is stolen, and worse, she's inside it!
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Dec 08, 2010
Avery
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When I first read the back of the this book I thought that it sounded super unique, therefore I was quite excited to read it, thinking it would be amazing. But (isn't there always a but?)... It just wasn't my cup of tea. I think that a lot of other YA readers will enjoy this book, I think that my biggest problem is that I think that currently I am very much loving YA paranormal and anything that isn't within that genre just kinda falls flat for me.
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Nov 04, 2010
Peep (Pop! Pop!)
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I think this one had potential, in the end it just didn't work for me. It sounds like it would be interesting, right? A blind girl is kidnapped when her step-moms car is stolen. How crazy can get this story get?
I love how much I learned about the newly blind. I learned a lot about how it is to adjust and a little about how it is for people who have been blind longer. And what it's like to walk with a stick. The other day I was at the mall, and a lady accidentally walked into me with h More...
I love how much I learned about the newly blind. I learned a lot about how it is to adjust and a little about how it is for people who have been blind longer. And what it's like to walk with a stick. The other day I was at the mall, and a lady accidentally walked into me with h More...
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Oct 26, 2010
The Rusty Key
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Reviewed by Rusty Key Writer: Jordan B. Nielsen
Recommended for: Both girls and boys, aged 13 and Up. The narrative is split between a male and female character, and its highly suspenseful central plot will make it appealing to both genders.
One Word Summary: Raw
Visceral, harrowing and engrossing, this slender, micro-focused work is strung taught as a trembling violin string.
Set in a frozen Portland, Oregon, ‘Girl Stolen’ tells the story of sixteen-ye More...
Recommended for: Both girls and boys, aged 13 and Up. The narrative is split between a male and female character, and its highly suspenseful central plot will make it appealing to both genders.
One Word Summary: Raw
Visceral, harrowing and engrossing, this slender, micro-focused work is strung taught as a trembling violin string.
Set in a frozen Portland, Oregon, ‘Girl Stolen’ tells the story of sixteen-ye More...
Oct 19, 2010
TheEagerReaders
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April Henry's Girl, Stolen is a suspenseful thriller about sixteen year old Cheyenne, a blind girl with pneumonia who is inadvertently kidnapped by a carjacker while her stepmother is in the pharmacy picking up her prescription. When Griffin, the teenage carjacker, discovers Cheyenne in the back of the SUV, he wants to let her go but decides to consult with his father first. Unfortunately for Cheyenne, when Griffin's father finds out that her family is extremely wealthy, he decides to hold her
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Oct 05, 2010
P.M.
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16-year old Cheyenne Wilder is sick with pneumonia and just wishes her stepmother would hurry up and get her prescription from the pharmacy. Unfortunately the keys dangling from the ignition of the car where Cheyene is waiting prove too much of a temptation for Griffin. He steals the car and kidnaps Cheyenne in the process. Once Griffin's father Roy finds out that Cheyenne is the daughter of the president of Nike, he hatches a plot to extort money for her release. Cheyenne's plight is complicate
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Sep 29, 2010
Katie(babs)
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A sick sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is napping in the backseat of her stepmother Danielle’s car. She’s waiting for Danielle to return with her medicine to help her get over her pneumonia, when suddenly someone gets into the driver’s seat and starts the car. Cheyenne knows this isn’t Danielle from the sound of the car door closing, to the smell, and the fast speed of the car Cheyenne quickly comes to the conclusion that she has been carjacked. Cheyenne has no choice to go along for the ride w
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Sep 12, 2010
Allison (The Allure of Books)
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Hmm. I wasn't sure what I'd be getting when I picked this up to read. A blind girl kidnapped? How would that plot unfold? How would the characters interact? Could the author pull such difficult circumstances off?
Well, in some ways April Henry excelled, but in others? Not so much.
The plot was engaging and constantly moved forward. I think the circumstances were very realistic and believable, and the back-and-forth between Griffin and Cheyenne was quite intriguing.
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Well, in some ways April Henry excelled, but in others? Not so much.
The plot was engaging and constantly moved forward. I think the circumstances were very realistic and believable, and the back-and-forth between Griffin and Cheyenne was quite intriguing.
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Aug 27, 2010
Nancy
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This is a very suspenseful read. Written for tween-agers, it's a pretty quick read yet the author develops major characters comprehensively. Cheyenne's story is shared throughout the book and includes amazing insights into a blind person's life. Very well researched and describes aspects of life without sight I'd never considered. She also describes how a cane is used (sweeping) and how to discern surfaces by sound, and the immeasurable worth of a dog.
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Jul 18, 2010
Jessica
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Girl, Stolen is a book that you have to step away from and mull over for a few days in order to really appreciate how you feel after reading it. I had no idea what I was going to be reading when I opened the book to the first page, and so I went in with a fresh perspective. Upon completing the book for the first time, I was hit with such a sense of (then unexplainable) awe that I wasn't sure how I felt overall. It stuck with me, and I was thinking about it for days afterwards.
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