An Essay On Stolen By Lucy Christopher
“You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes,
as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. No one had
ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me I guess.
Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty
powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful too.” That is the hook from the book, Stolen by Lucy
Christopher. In the beginning of the book, 16 year old Gemma was at an airport coffee shop.
Gemma starts talking with a guy named Ty and he asks if he can buy her coffee. Gemma trusted him
because she thought he looked familiar, but didn’t know he drugged her coffee. Sooner or …show more content…
This shows that Gemma is really smart to try and escape even though she didn’t make it.
I would recommend this book to 8th or 9th graders. Stolen by Lucy Christopher is a little bit
confusing in the beginning, but once you continue reading it you start to understand it better. Lucy
Christopher uses a lot of descriptive words and it really brings the whole book together. I think this
book is a great book for 8th and 9th graders to read because, as we get older we tend to think that
since were a teenager we can go out on our own. We don’t realize that we could easily be taken or
hurt by someone. I think this book would show a great lesson to 8th and 9th graders. “Those blue,
blue eyes, icy blue.” “I thought they were safe somehow. All the good guys have baby blues. The
dark eyes are for the villains … the Grim Reaper, the Joker, zombies. All dark.” I would rate Stolen
by Lucy Christopher an 9 out of 10! Lucy Christopher used a great amount of descriptive language
and it really brought together the whole book. This book had many great things and many bad
as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. No one had
ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me I guess.
Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty
powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful too.” That is the hook from the book, Stolen by Lucy
Christopher. In the beginning of the book, 16 year old Gemma was at an airport coffee shop.
Gemma starts talking with a guy named Ty and he asks if he can buy her coffee. Gemma trusted him
because she thought he looked familiar, but didn’t know he drugged her coffee. Sooner or …show more content…
This shows that Gemma is really smart to try and escape even though she didn’t make it.
I would recommend this book to 8th or 9th graders. Stolen by Lucy Christopher is a little bit
confusing in the beginning, but once you continue reading it you start to understand it better. Lucy
Christopher uses a lot of descriptive words and it really brings the whole book together. I think this
book is a great book for 8th and 9th graders to read because, as we get older we tend to think that
since were a teenager we can go out on our own. We don’t realize that we could easily be taken or
hurt by someone. I think this book would show a great lesson to 8th and 9th graders. “Those blue,
blue eyes, icy blue.” “I thought they were safe somehow. All the good guys have baby blues. The
dark eyes are for the villains … the Grim Reaper, the Joker, zombies. All dark.” I would rate Stolen
by Lucy Christopher an 9 out of 10! Lucy Christopher used a great amount of descriptive language
and it really brought together the whole book. This book had many great things and many bad