The Abduction / Gordon Korman / 137 pages / First Book in a Series

Were Aiden and Meg Falconer doomed to be misfits forever?  Their professor parents were recently released from fourteen months in prison where they were being held for aiding foreign terrorists.  Aiden and Meg had achieved almost as much notoriety as their parents when they escaped from a juvenile detention facility in Nebraska and became fugitives for eight weeks.  After their experience, high school and middle school seemed pointless.  Then Meg is kidnapped and the same FBI agent who arrested and later cleared her parents is put on the case. Meg is quick-witted and ingenious and almost escapes twice.  The kidnappers' attempt to collect a ransom is foiled.  To find out what happens next, you have to read book 2 in the series.  This was hard to put down.  The story moved rapidly and was over much too quickly.