Risked
This book was received as part of a grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation (clif).
Torn
Kirkus Reviews The fourth installment of this enjoyable time-travel series for preteens takes readers to a lesser-known historical event than those in the earlier books: the mutiny on Henry Hudson's ship, theDiscovery, in 1611. Jonah and Katherine land on board the icy ship just when the mutineers cast Hudson and his remaining loyal crewmembers adrift, […]
Into the Gauntlet
Sabotaged
From the Publisher: After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea, face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help Andrea fix history, but when their journey goes […]
Sent
Kirkus Reviews: Historical time travel for the middle-school crowd continues in this second installment of Haddix's latest series, The Missing. The first book (Found, 2008) set the premise-36 endangered children have been snatched from history. Here, readers are catapulted immediately into 1483, with all of its inconveniences, bad food and lack of sewage treatment. Hero […]
Caught
Jonah and Katherine come face to face with Albert Einstein in the fifth book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series. Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when learn they next have to return Albert Einstein’s daughter to history, they think it’s a joke—they’ve only heard of his sons. […]
Found
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 […]