Three Days

by Donna Jo Napoli

Book Overview

When her father suddenly dies while on a business trip, leaving her alone on an Italian highway, eleven-year-old Jackie worries what will happen when she is picked up by two men with unknown motives This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142500259
• ISBN13: 9780142500255
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

Amazing

I bought this book months ago and never actually got around to reading it. Tonight I grabbed it from my shelf so I could bring it to work tomorrow and decided to read a chapter. That turned into me reading the entire book in one night. It was absolutely amazing, it had a great story line that sucked me in. It filled me with sadness and confusion of emotions for her situation as she felt herself. When i bought it I wasnt expecting it to turn out how it did but I truly loved it. I would recommend this book to absolutely anyone. Its great for younger readers as well as for adults. I myself am 23 and this will stay one of my favorites. Absolute bravo to the writer.. If youre reading this to see if you want to buy it or not then I'm telling you to add it to your cart. You won't be disappointed. Its a book i wish would go on forever so i could keep reading it.

Wonderful

I read this book and couldn't get it out of my mind. I felt that the author presented a very realistic story. As I read, I felt the same loss of control, the sense of disbelief, and the fear of the unknown. Being 17, I am old enough to understand when Jackie doesn't, know when to scream - and ache when Jackie doesn't, and wonder how I would react if put in a similar situation. This is a small book but worth reading. It's great for younger children, but also enjoyable for adults.

courtney clark

Three Days by: Donna Jo Napoli is a great book.I would reccemend this book to anyone who likes adventure and suspence.I like the way she describes how the problems are solved and how the setting of the book looks like and every tenee tiny detail of what is happening to Jackie in the book.I think that anyone who reads this book will think the same thing about the book.

Three days

this is a wonderful and nerve wrecking book. It is about a girl in Italy with her dad. While they are driving her dad collapses... read to find out what happens next.

Three days

I think Three Days is a very scary, suspenseful, and a really shocking book. Jackie,an 11-year-old girl from Minnesota, goes on a business trip with her father to Italy. The night after they arrive, Jackie's father collapsed at the wheel of their rental car and eventually dies leaving Jackie all alone in the middle of the highway in a foreign country. She starts to panic, unsure of what to do or what is happening. Jackie figures out a plan. She starts running,screaming,and starts waving her hands for attention or help...but no one can hear her. Two men in a white, old car come to help Jackie, so she thinks. The men and Jackie drive past the hospital and stop at a river to throw all Jackie's identity that she was with her father. Eventually, they end up at the men's home. There was a lady standing outside this creepy old house drying their clothes.Her name is Claudia. Claudia does not think this is a good idea from what she is seeing. But Jackie runs into another problem. They do not speak English and Jackie doesn't speak Italian! The rest of this story revolves around Claudia helping Jackie escpape, or will she escape this nightmare? Read this very suspensful book to find out!!!!

Riveting story!

The stark, first person, present tense narration of Three Days caught my interest, but it was the charactors who held me to the last page. An eleven-year-old girl traveling with her father in Italy is abducted. She has no idea where she's going, why she's been taken, or whom she can trust, and on top of that, she can not speak to or understand anyone around her. My first thought was that the very simple style of this book put it below the reading level of my seventh graders, but the narrator caught me up in the story with her realistic voice and feelings and I had to finish the book in one sitting. This is my first Donna Jo Napoli book, but I plan to go back and read all her others now.