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Kit: 15 year old kidnapping victim
Monster: kidnapped Kit. Kidnapped a kitten too. General monster.
Blue: is Grunt's older brother who rescued him from the sister and sister's husband who wanted Grunt for a paycheck only and abused him.
Griz: Because he looks like a Grizzly Bear and mean like one
Grunt: got his name because they said he was a Grown up Runt
Moe: missing her (view spoiler)
Willow: female that likes Griz but he hit her and treats her bad. they did have a sexual relationship
Chowder: master carpenter by trade and the motel handy man and maintenance person for Griz
Chicky:
Delia: Kit's sister who was a drug addict and didn't pay attention to Kit and I am not sure she reported her sister missing
Damien & Lucifer: two dogs
Gwennie: Kit's cat
I start books all the time without reading what it's about just because someone recommends it, etc. and I did the same thing with this one. (Had to stop, back up & read the blurb!)The story evolves quite a bit through out so I don't really want to say too much but I had the same concerns about my kids and afraid that somehow they would get into a car with someone they didn't know.. In the community I live in, there are alerts that go out about suspicious activity of that nature or cautions of attempts. Not all of the parents go out to the bus stops with the kids - but there are parents out at all the bus stops. My daughter's in HS & we're lucky the stop is right at our corner so I can drink my coffee out front and keep an eye without being too hovering. One afternoon my daughter and her 3 friends were outside with their skateboards and a car pulled up asking them where a street was located ~ I was glad they ran to the closest house (ours) and asked me to talk to the person in the car. It seemed totally legit and I gave them directions but was glad the girls didn't go up to the car and talk to them even though they knew the answer to what they were asking about.
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she is right, we do speak to strangers at the grocery story, or at the playground BUt then tell our kids not to do so
It's true - I can see where adults give mixed messages. I know we don't know what we don't know, but we know a lot more about the bad things that can happen. We have a better idea when it's ok (& not ok) to be nice to strangers. Our job is to protect our kiddos and it's safest for them to do as I say & not as I do - until they are adults. Kind of like bad words...and coffee...
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but what am I yapping about, I give my kids soda, it's just as bad right?
my little boy has a password and he knows that if ANYONE even mummy's friends say that they are picking him up from school or anywhere, then he asks the password. If they don't know it then he is to run in the school and tell the teacher and get them to call me.
Really??? Third grade & drinking coffee? I think I'm mostly surprised that they even like it at that age. LOL! The HS has a coffee shop in it so my daughter's getting on the coffee wagon too now.. I'm sure it's in her DNA.My grandpa's saying used to be 'everything in moderation'.. I try to pass that along. -- Except for reading books..uh..and coffee... (My 2 vices) If I'm going to have 2, those aren't terrible. Although I sort of wish I was addicted to working out or carrots or something like that.
V - That's a good way to do it with your little guy!
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The police detective was telling the ABC new crew that those creeps are good at enticing kids with candy and stuff like that. Elizabeth Vargas bragged about how she had always been instructing her kids to run. So they did a sting on ALL of the new peoples kids while the parents watched from a hidden camera.
The detective went to Vargas' son's school where he was walking home. he was like 10 or 12 yrs old at the time. The detective drove a van. He came along side the boy and said something about Have you seen my puppy? He ran off and I can't find him. The boy said No, what does the puppy look like? The detective described a dog and the boy said no.
He asked the boy to help him look for his dog. Vargas's son said "well, I am supposed to go straight home." The detective said how sad he was about losing his dog, and hopes someone doesn't hurt his dog, BLAH BLAH.
the boy said okay. The detective asked him to get into his van--THE BACK--and the boy went into the back of the van where Elizabeth and some of the other reporters were hiding watching on the camera.
Of course Elizabeth Vargas starts crying like a baby. She was like "it was that easy. Freaking 3 mins and her son was in the back of a stranger's van.
ALL of the correspondents kids fell for the same trick!
Lost puppy/cat and Candy seem to the top choice for these kidnappers.
My daughter is a sucker for both!Sooooooo freakin' scary!!!
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If there was a flood, and there was a dog or a stranger in the water---who do you save?
This is assuming you can only save one person.
My daughter said "the dog!"
HaHa! Dogs are loyal friends... :)Strangers are a danger...
Really coffee in 3rd grade now I can't tell my oldest she isn't old enough for coffee and she's 15.
IKR?! But now I find I'm noodling Ezi's point about which is worse, coffee or soda?
Yeah I guess if you look at it that way but I guess I am trying to not make her like I am where I really am addicted and have to have coffee for my day to go right. I don't want to start her out at 15 already like that. My kids are funny in that they don't like soda and are addicted to the fruity water things or the flavor mixins which I'm sure aren't that good for them either.
I think you're lucky!
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But now I find I'm noodling Ezi's point about which is worse, coffee or soda?"
I don't feel like Soda is addictive though it's 17 teaspoons of sugar. BAD!
But Coffee is addictive. so starting a kid at 3rd grade isn't right. they aren't even cognizant of caffeine addictions.
Have you heard of something called "zipfizz"? My son was telling me about it. I guess he and some of the guys will drink it in their water some days before practice when they are dragging. It's supposedly all natural and without caffeine. A blend of the vitamin Bs.. He got me curious about it. I'd never heard of it before.
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Oh my kids LOVE sprite and orange sunkist. My son asked for Mountain Dew when we were at Taco Bell, I asked him.
He said because Mountain Dew gives you energy to climb mountains (he is 6yrs old). so the creative answer, I let him have a sip of mine :D
LMAO, I see that I am the problem. If I don't get soda, they won't either.
There was a viral video going around recently about a man in a park asking children about puppies.He asks the mums who are in the park if it is ok and they all said yes as they won't go with you.........Every single one of them took his hand and walked off with him !
Ezi my Cam is the same way because he is like his dad and loves people and complete strangers and animals. He will talk to anyone and I always try to explain to him that some people are friendly for the wrong reasons.
Now I have to read this book after I fully read the blurb.
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Mine too and mine love animals. This book is really gripping me
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did you read book 2? Did you know this is a trilogy?
I already added your name
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He asks the mums who are in the park if it is ok and they all said yes as they won't go with you...."
those b*tches are just Lazy. that's ridiculous.
It was like an experiment to see if the children would go with him.
Ezinwanyi~Boo boo kitty wrote: "K~Terror wrote: "What book?:)"
did you read book 2? Did you know this is a trilogy?
I already added your name"
I haven't read past this book. I knew there was a second book but didn't realize it was a trilogy. Count me in!
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What a deed for Griz to tell him to do. That makes me stomach roll. (view spoiler)
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Oohhhh. Ok. I need to talk to my kids more often about stranger danger and about molesters
As soon as I saw that video I spoke to Brogan and we made the password system, it scared me too much because I KNOW that he would go with someone, he's animal mad !I'm still to put it to the test though lol
okay when did you change your name, I've only just noticed haha
Ezinwanyi~Boo boo kitty wrote: "BLUE has a WIFE? Kids? WTF?"I know... it's a strange crew for sure. The thing with Gris (view spoiler)
Lol I see you added my name up there Ezi ok you twisted my arm enough. I just bought it. I have my book to finish up for SOS and Bingo for this week then this one will be up next.I really need to talk to my kids more about it too and my major issue with Cam is with the dogs. He walks up to complete strangers and automatically has his hand out to pet their dogs and I am afraid of that one day he gets one that't not friendly.
Lol at BooBook Kitty when did you change that.
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a few minutes ago. There is a character Annika on the show Empire, that Cookie hates and calls her Boo-Boo Kitty. It cracks me up.
I thought Boo Boo Kitty would be cute for Halloween
ah right, I saw it and wondered why I hadn't noticed it before
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But Kit let her have it:
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Ezinwanyi~Boo boo kitty wrote: "blue's wife Jan was sooo nice and then turned into satan's bride.But Kit let her have it:
[spoilers removed]"
YES - that was hilarious! (view spoiler)
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Book 1 in the Nine Minutes Trilogy.
On May 15, 1975, fifteen-year-old Ginny Lemon is abducted from a convenience store in Fort Lauderdale by a member of one of the most notorious and brutal motorcycle gangs in South Florida.
From that moment on, her life is forever changed. She gets a new name, a new identity and a new life in the midst of the gang’s base on the edge of the Florida Everglades—a frightening, rough and violent world much like the swamps themselves, where everyone has an alias and loyalty is tantamount to survival.
And at the center of it all is the gang’s leader, Grizz: massive, ruggedly handsome, terrifying and somehow, when it comes to Ginny, tender. She becomes his obsession and the one true love of his life.
So begins a tale of emotional obsession and manipulation, of a young woman ripped from everything she knows and forced to lean on the one person who provides attention, affection and care: her captor. Precocious and intelligent, but still very much a teenager, Ginny struggles to adapt to her existence, initially fighting and then coming to terms with her captivity.
Will she be rescued? Will she escape? Will she get out alive—or get out at all? Part psychological thriller, part coming-of-age novel, filled with mystery, romance and unexpected turns, Nine Minutes takes readers into the world of one motorcycle gang and inside the heart of a young girl, whose abduction brought about its fall.