The final book in the series is here! The most interesting one in the series, and also when all the Cahill's unite against a crazy Cahill named Isabel. The genre is fiction, mystery and realistic fiction. I thought this book was very detailed and showed us the rest of the secrets of the 39 clues ...
Into The GauntletMargaret Peterson HaddixDan, Amy and Nellie get a clue, figure it out and go to a island and all the other groups follow them. They all go in the gauntlet and they make it to the end just to find out that Isabelle Kabra beat them and she forces them to say their ingredients and s...
The Always War is a science fiction book full of action and adventure. The war has been going for 75 long and hard years. Tessa a young, intelligent girl, is watching her neighbor, Gideon Thrall, getting a medal for his courage in the war he has fought in.Later, in the story, they go into enemy t...
This is the book series that not only got me into reading but gave me what genre I liked: Dystopian. Haddox does such an amazing job at making the story line believable and making Luke the main character and drawing force while also letting you get to know other characters. Even when other books ...
I think Risked was a very good book. It kept me on the edge of my seat wondering how they were going to get out of the problem they got themselves into. The book had many problems that had to be immediately solved or they would be dead. The book also acknowledges lots of historical standpoints si...
I loved this series! I could read it over and over and never get bored with it. I want to read them again soon, and if I got them for Christmas, I would be glued to the couch for weeks reading through them all. I think this series has a great plot and a really cool message about survival and purs...
This is a great series. The author keeps you hanging on when you just think you know everything that is going on. This is a great series for kids to get hooked on.Books 1-3 are a smaller books and I notice that books 4-7 are longer books. Information gets added and more challenging to figure thin...
The book Claim to Fame by Margaret Peterson Haddix was an okay book. This book was a little boring because I like books with some action, like tragedy deaths, in it. This book didn't have any of that. With those things I like in a book, plus a lot of mystery, I have to give this book a 2 star rat...
They could have made this book a little better because stuff actually starts to happen around chapter 12 and everthing before that is slow and boring. THe good thing about this book is that it makes you really think "What if that happened?" What if the government allowed two kids? That would be c...
I think that this book was very mysterious and quite the cliffhanger. After Chip finds out he was adopted to they go on an adventure to find out who they really are. I recommend this book to people who are interested in Sci-fi and if this book has it's very own series that I cannot wait to read...
1/ Paragraph 1: SummaryThis book is the fifth book of the Shadow Children Series Haddix. At this time, the government installs a law saying that there can only be two children per family, so the government makes the population police. The population police is an organization that tries to catch t...
I’ve read a lot of Margaret Peterson Haddix’s books. And I noticed that no matter what the plot is or who the main character is, there’s one common theme – the main character is a kid, and the adults won’t tell him or her anything.Not that it’s a bad thing, mind you. The “what the heck is going...
Margaret Peterson Haddix' Among the Brave is a science fiction story, focuses on what the character does to rescue what he needs to rescue for. The character has to go through many different obstacles to rescue that objective.Trey, the protagonist or hero, is a "third child", described so by the ...
ENOUGH GAMES. Luke Garner is a third-born in a restrictive society that allows only two children per family. Risking his life, he came out of hiding to fight against the Population Police laws. Now, in the final volume of Margaret Peterson Haddix's suspenseful Shadow Children series, Luke inadver...
I decided to read “Among the Betrayed” by Margaret Peterson Haddix because I read her first two books in the shadow child sequence and I loved them. “Among the Betrayed was an attention-grabbing book. I kept wanting to read more. The main character is this book is Nina. Nina is a shadow child wit...
Among The Imposters- Post 1/4 Luke Garner masked himself for the sake of his family, he masked himself from society. In a crumbling world, the third child in any family is meant to be cast away due to a government that can't sustain the population. His whole life has been spent running and hi...
Nick PeotterMrs. WhiteOctober 30, 2014Advanced English, Hour 8Among the BaronsHave you ever heard of the one child policy in China? Well thats kind of what happened in the book i'm reading called Among the Barons by the well known author Margaret Peterson Haddix. Among the Barons is the fourth bo...
When Britt's older brother, Bran, lands a summer job house-sitting for the Marquises, an elderly couple, it seems like a great opportunity. Britt and Bran have moved to Florida so their mother can finish college, and the house-sitting income will allow their mom to quit her job and take classes f...
The issue faced by the characters in the book, that of overpopulation and what to do about it, is an important one, and deserves to have a children's book written about it. The possibility that we will one day be limited to two children or fewer per family, and people will undergo forced steriliz...
Jessie is growing up in 1840 in Clifton, Indiana. She spends her days like all the other kids in the frontier village; she goes to school and does chores. Lately a lot of kids have been missing from school because of illness. One night, Jessie's mother takes her along to help a nearby child who i...
Have you ever felt like you are being forced to do things you dont want to by your friends? Well the book called Leaving Fishers is pretty much all about "friends" pushing her into doing things she doesn't want to do. The author had a good strategy to keep readers hooked to the book. What I did a...
When I began reading this, my eyes started rolling and all I could think of is, "Oh no, not another teen angst story!" However, as I continued I realized this story was much more. It is very simply written and could easily be overlooked. But somehow this short novel worked for me. I loved how...
Very educational book about alopecia areata. I appreciated that the author told the story from both the point of view of a girl who has the condition and a classmate who wants to help her but doesn't know quite how. It made me think about other conditions as well. Reading this book gave me enc...
Around her the workers were screaming out prayers and curses.... She herself was sobbing tearlessly....Her only prayer was still, "I don't want to die." Oh, please, God, don't let me die, she thought. I've never even had a chance to live. Bella, newly arrived in New York from Italy, gets a job...
In the year 2000 Melly and Anny Beth had reached the peak of old age and were ready to die. But when offered the chance to be young again by participating in a top-secret experiment called Project Turnabout, they agreed. Miraculously, the experiment worked -- Melly and Anny Beth were actually gro...
JANIE WHO? It's hard enough being the new kid in school. It's even tougher when all of your new classmates live in big houses and wear expensive clothes, while your parents have little and are risking everything just to give you a chance at a better life. Now Janie's about to do something that...
Eryn asked. So Eryn’s capable of asking deep, philosophical questions, Nick thought. Even if Mom and Dad couldn’t teach us about philosophy. Then he looked out the window and realized she wasn’t asking about their purpose in life. ...
Luke said aloud. And then he stepped out from behind the tree. Twenty Luke felt twelve pairs of eyes on him. Nina’s mouth was frozen in a little “o” of surprise. Jackal boy’s jaw dropped in astonishment. But nobody was more astonished than Luke. Why did I do that? he wondered. He rememb...
Chip said, bouncing the basketball low against the driveway. Jonah waited to answer until he’d darted his hand in and stolen the basketball away. “Adopted,” he said, shooting the ball toward the backboard. But the angle was wrong, and the ball bounced off the hoop. “Really? You or her? Or both?” ...
He slammed into it, making too much noise—but what did that matter when everyone was going to see him in a few moments anyway? Look for a window, he thought disjointedly. Or a door. Weren’t there any breaks at all in the wall? Any other way to get through? Jonah spread his hands along the wall, f...
I fling myself at the door, shoving against it. The bar and the lock hold firm. I wrap my hands around the window bars and jerk on them, uselessly. “Desmia, you don’t understand,” I say. “I came to save you! Didn’t anybody ever tell you the truth?” She’s backing away from the door, toward the sta...
Yes! KT thought. It must be the regular world, back again! Why else would Mom bother coming in to talk to me? “About last night . . . ,” Mom said, sitting down on the edge of KT’s bed. “Yes?” KT said, springing up eagerly. This must be the way yesterday was supposed to go. All that weirdo-world s...
She just throws her arms around my shoulders and hugs me tight. And I hold on to her just as hard. We both clutch each other and sob into each other’s shoulders. And there are so many things we need to talk about that I can’t sort them out. I just say the first thing that pops into my mind. “Why ...
We had fought. Prince Charming had tied me up. How could that be? I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn’t laugh. What would happen next? I listened for footsteps in the hall outside, ...
“Please tell me,” Jonah began, “that in that other dimension you lived in, Mom and Dad never limited your time on the computer, and you became some genius programming-hacking expert. Please tell me you don’t have the same friends I do, and, I don’t know, you’ve been hanging out with Dushaun Ross ...
No—it was a pole. “Nice,” I said. “You’ve only been here a day and already you’ve run away from your parents to go fishing. And goof off.” “They’re making me fish, Rosi,” Edwy said. “They said I can’t come home until I catch enough fish for the whole family. Aunts and uncles and cousins and every...
she asked, switching her baffled gaze from Andrea to Jonah.“‘Jonah made me lose the Elucidator,’” Jonah mimicked in a mincing, whiny voice that didn’t actually sound anything like Andrea’s. “‘It’s all Jonah’s fault.’” Okay, she hadn’t exactly said that, but Jonah was mad. “She was lying!”“Jonah, ...
I asked. Tog pointed out toward the ballroom. “Get out there and tell those Fridesians the truth!” he said. “Get them to help you find the real princesses!” This never would have occurred to me. Truth? In a palace? “Why would they care about helping me?” I asked. “You don’t know what royalty and ...
Katherine was shaking her head in despair and mouthing the words, What were you thinking? The others just looked furious. “Caught listening at doors,” Prickett muttered darkly. “Eavesdropping.” “No,” Jonah said, thinking hard. “I wasn’t. I—” He decided to buy some time—and a little dignity—by try...
Jonah yelled, even though of course Charles Lindbergh couldn’t hear him. “They’re liars and cheats, and—and kidnappers! They’re kidnappers, your worst enemies! They kidnapped your son, or they will, or—well, I don’t know how the timing works, but you can’t trust Gary and Hodge!” Jonah was surpris...
They said the rest of time was not like 1918. And that, the strangers said, was why they’d rescued Leonid. They said he should be grateful. * * * Leonid opened his eyes to a room without windows or doors. It was just fo...
It was heavy. It was hot. And it smelled like a locker room full of sweaty teenage boys. Trying on the suit of armor JB gave him, Jonah sniffed surreptitiously, almost gagged, and resorted to holding his breath. JB said this was brand-new armor—could I really be producing that smell all by ...
With the graham cracker box and two cans of pears, he built a little fortress around his homework paper. He glanced once toward the living room, where Grandma had the TV turned up loud. If he leaned forward a little, he could see her on the couch, slumped over. This time, he wasn’t scared that sh...