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Children's Literature: Margaret Peterson Haddix is good with children in peril. She is also good with slightly futuristic scenarios. She melded the two in her popular "Shadow Children" series and seems set for another success in her brand new series offering, "The Missing." Book 1 sets up the premise and major characters. A planeload of babies mysteriously arrives at a Middle-western airport. Thirteen years later, the adopted children begin receiving threatening messages. Jonah, his non-adopted sister Katherine, and adopted friend Chip attempt to solve the mystery. The thirteen-year-olds soon find themselves enmeshed in an investigation as bizarre as the Watergate Affair: shadowy characters, disappearing computer files, and the convergence of all thirty-six adoptees in and around their Ohio town?not to mention the curious interest of the FBI. Can the kids find the answers before the unknown "They" come back to get them? Well gee, then there would not be a series, would there? Haddix's clever hypothesis promises a whole bunch of sequels. Reviewer: Kathleen Karr