I read the book A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard. This book is about a young girl named Jaycee. She was kidnapped at the age of eleven(in fifth grade), and kept under captive for eighteen years! I chose to read this book because I had watched a story about it on TV, and I just had to read it!

It was just any old regular morning with her step-dad Carl, and her sleeping baby sister in her room, until she was snatched by a husband and a wife on her way to school. They stun gunned her, and drove away for two hours to their home where the husband, Phillip Garrido would sexually abuse Jaycee for eighteen years. During that time Jaycee got pregnant twice, she had one baby at the age of 14, and one at the age of 17. She said after having the babies that "I wasn't so alone anymore. I had somebody that was mine." While trying to balance her weight after the babies by exercising, and taking care of the many stray cats that came around, Jaycee had two little girls to take care of! She was their teacher, and learned all of her parenting skills from the TV set, and the computer she was allowed to use. Jaycee desperately wanted her mom for those eighteen years, and stared up at the sky to look at the moon because her and her mom would always talk about the moon together!

After what seems like a lifetime of waiting to be discovered, and being stripped of her identity to the point where she was forced to pick a new name. For eighteen years she was called Alyssa and wasn't able to write or say her real name...but then, the unthinkable happens...

I liked many things about this book. One thing I liked was that it always kept me hooked! I read all day once, and I couldn't stop! I also liked that it was a true story because it opened my eyes to be very thankful for everything I have! The only thing that i didn't like about this book was that it was sometimes in too much detail... I think this book should be read by 13 and up because of the graphics. I would definitely recommend this to a friend too because I think this is a great and inspirational story about making the best out of an impossible situation, just like Jaycee did for eighteen long years!