Hide the Children (Vintage Paperback) by Victor Miller

BY 9 A.M. THE SCHOOL BUS HAD VANISHED. 

NO ONE COULD BELIEVE IT... EXCEPT THE CHILDREN WHO WERE ON IT.

Children like Brookie Purnell-beautiful, physically endowed beyond her years and wiser than she had a right to be. At 16, she was more than every boy's dream. Sammy Gertz-fot, clumsy and acne'd. Even he couldn't bear what he was, and he was only 12.

They, and 23 other children of The Ridge, were bound for the exclusive Beenadewin School. It was a morning like any other when they boarded the yellow bus. But suddenly they were innocent hostages in a grim, crazed scheme... bound for another kind of school where every lesson had been planned methodically with malicious expertise.