In a mixture of pique, projection, and protectiveness, Victoria semi-accidentally kidnaps a toddler on a train at New York’s Penn Station, determined to keep him safe from his teenaged mother’s drug-dealing boyfriend, and finds herself on the lam with a cute kid as she tries to figure out how to keep her charge and herself from the law on the one hand and angry criminals on the other.
(provided with permission from Deborah Stevenson, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Tough Issues for Teens (kidnapping)" at Bildungsroman.
