Hostage Three - Softcover

* "Intelligent, empathetic, and eye-opening." -- "Booklist", starred review, on "Hostage""Three"

* "Perceptive and harrowing. . . . An inventive narrative construction . . . plays on the highly unstable situation of this utterly compelling read." -- "Publishers Weekly", starred review, on "Hostage Three"

* "Vivid and poignant. . . . The narrative twist is brilliant, taking readers on an emotional ride to the very last page." -- "School Library Journal", starred review, on "Hostage Three "

* "This double-helix-of-a-story explores the nature of freedom, humanity, survival and hope. A dark journey well worth taking-engrossing, disturbing, illuminating." -- "Kirkus reviews", starred review, on "IN DARKNESS "

* "A startling but successful feat of literary imagination. . . . Powerful and moving." -- "PW", starred review, on "IN DARKNESS "

"A likely eye-opener for teenage readers. . . . "In Darkness" works on multiple levels by blurring realities--telescoping across time, between dreams and waking, and . . . between the depiction of Haiti by the artist and Haiti itself. This is what makes the novel so gripping." -- "The New York Times", on "IN""DARKNESS"

"Remarkable. . . . Lake's elegant, restrained prose and distinct characters will reward adults and older teenagers able to brave a story with strong language, harrowing scenes of brutality and an almost painful stab of joy at the end." -- "Wall Street Journal", on "IN DARKNESS"

"A bold storytelling move ripe for reader discussion. . . . Provocative, daring, and sure to be polarizing. Lake does not shy from the graphic depiction of life in past or present Haiti. . . . Such grittiness elevates his story above and beyond more typical historical fiction and gives the events an edge not found in classroom social studies lessons. . . . Readers are sure to have a hard time looking away." -- "VOYA", on "IN DARKNESS"

"Perceptive and harrowing. . . . An inventive narrative construction . . . plays on the highly unstable situation of this utterly compelling read." --"Publishers Weekly", starred review "Intelligent, empathetic, and eye-opening." --"Booklist", starred review "Vivid and poignant. . . . The narrative twist is brilliant, taking readers on an emotional ride to the very last page." --"School Library Journal", starred review

Perceptive and harrowing. . . . An inventive narrative construction . . . plays on the highly unstable situation of this utterly compelling read. "Publishers Weekly, starred review"

Intelligent, empathetic, and eye-opening. "Booklist, starred review"

Vivid and poignant. . . . The narrative twist is brilliant, taking readers on an emotional ride to the very last page. "School Library Journal, starred review""

Perceptive and harrowing. . . . An inventive narrative construction . . . plays on the highly unstable situation of this utterly compelling read. Publishers Weekly, starred review

Intelligent, empathetic, and eye-opening. Booklist, starred review

Vivid and poignant. . . . The narrative twist is brilliant, taking readers on an emotional ride to the very last page. School Library Journal, starred review

"Perceptive and harrowing. . . . An inventive narrative construction . . . plays on the highly unstable situation of this utterly compelling read." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Intelligent, empathetic, and eye-opening." --Booklist, starred review

"Vivid and poignant. . . . The narrative twist is brilliant, taking readers on an emotional ride to the very last page." --School Library Journal, starred review

As Amy sets out to sea with her family on a yacht, she's only thinking about the peaceful waters and the warm sun. But she doesn't get either after a group of pirates seize the boat and its human cargo, and the family becomes a commodity in a highly sophisticated transaction. Hostage One is Amy's father--the most valuable. Hostage Three is Amy, who can't believe the nightmare she's in. But something even stranger happens as she builds a bond with one of her captors, making it brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things.

From one of today's most exciting contemporary voices in YA comes a commercial page-turner you won't be able to put down.