Book excerpt: Disneyland Hostage finds Liz Austen on her own during a California holiday, where she is on the hunt to find a missing boy from the Disneyland hotel and stop terrorists threatening to strike Disneyland itself. Appealing to children's inherent keen interest in mystery, Eric Wilson has skillfully woven accurate Canadian geographic and historic information into his writing. As such, these novels lend themselves to the integrated study of the mystery genre with Canadian geography topics in social studies, and investigation units in science. Disneyland Hostage provides rich material for the study of setting, characterization and plot development. This Novel Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, chapter questions, crossword, word search, and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.