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The Girl in the Box

by Ouida Sebestyen

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Kidnapped and left in an underground room, Jackie explores her psychological strengths and limitations as she tries to make contact with the outside world by writing messages and sending them through a slit in the door.
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The girl in a box... I still can't remember why I picked it up at a school book fair, but I can remember the emotions that flowed off the page. This book does leave you in an emotional wreck at the fate of the girl. Does she die? did she live? It's a question that's never answered, but reading this girl's story gripped me from the very first line.

A brilliant read and a book that stays with you long after you've finished. ( )
  Claire.Warner | Feb 8, 2015 |
The girl in a box... I still can't remember why I picked it up at a school book fair, but I can remember the emotions that flowed off the page. This book does leave you in an emotional wreck at the fate of the girl. Does she die? did she live? It's a question that's never answered, but reading this girl's story gripped me from the very first line.

A brilliant read and a book that stays with you long after you've finished. ( )
  Claire.Warner | Feb 8, 2015 |
A girl types in the dark of a cement prison, where she’s been left with food & water, her typewriter & paper. I’ve been curious about this one because I lived in Memphis when a girl there was kidnapped & later rescued from the ceiling space of a church. This story is an examination of a mind, rather than mystery or adventure. Some typos would have made it more realistic.
  colvin | Jan 23, 2009 |
Kidnapped and left in an underground room, Jackie explores her psychological strengths and limitations as she tries to make contact with the outside world by writing messages and sending them through a slit in the door.
  smee04 | Oct 21, 2006 |
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If you have found this note in my pocket and need to identify me, I am Jackie McGee. My parents are Brian and Carol McGee, 301 East Hutto, Shickley Heights.

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The diary of a teen girl, typed in the darkness of an underground bunker after she is kidnapped for mysterious reasons and left alone there. The diary covers a period of weeks or months, as the protagonist slowly runs out of food and water and begins to lose her mind.
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