Fighting Back

Cheerleaders #42

by Carol Ellis

A shopping expedition turns into a nightmare when Mary Ellen Tilford is kidnapped for ransom, and Tara Armstrong, in the wrong place at the wrong time, is taken, too.

Mary Ellen says, "Do what they say. Don't make any trouble." Tara says, "We've got to fight. We've got to save ourselves."

Someone's right. And someone's wrong. Maybe dead wrong.

Genres: Young Adult

156 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1988

About the author

Carol Ellis is an American author of young adult and children’s fiction. Her first novel, My Secret Admirer, was published in 1989 by Scholastic as part of their popular Point Thriller line.

She went on to write over fifteen novels, including a few titles in the Zodiac Chillers series published by Random House in the mid-1990s, and two titles in The Blair Witch Files series for young adults, published by Bantam between 2000 and 2001.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mary Ellen gets kidnapped for the 2nd time in this series. She is the Meredith Grey of "Cheerleaders." But Pres is no Liam Neeson. Full recap: https://cheerleadersrecaps.wordpress....

[Sarah Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

* Mary Ellen and Tara get kidnapped by a man with a gun who is hiding in the back of Mary Ellen's car.
* The kidnappers call Pres and tell him not to go to the police, but also don't tell him what they want 🙄 he tells Patrick what has happened and Patrick insists they go to the police.
* The police try to help, but it seems to take days for the kidnappers to tell them what they want.
* Sean finds Mary Ellen's car abandoned and Pres explains what's going on.
* Eventually the kidnappers ask for $500,000 and Pres goes and drops it off, then the police manage to catch the kidnappers and save the girls.
* Oh, and Olivia broke up with both Walt and Duffy.

[Judy Tarver · Rating 2 out of 5]

A far reach for this series. A but unrealistic. I didn’t like this one very much at all.