Margaret Peterson Haddix Books In Order

The Greystone Secrets Books In Publication Order

  1. The Strangers (2019)
  2. The Deceivers (2020)
  3. The Messengers (2021)

Shadow Children Books In Publication Order

  1. Among the Hidden (1998)
  2. Among the Impostors (2001)
  3. Among the Betrayed (2002)
  4. Among the Barons (2003)
  5. Among the Brave (2004)
  6. Among the Enemy (2005)
  7. Among the Free (2006)

The Palace Chronicles Books In Publication Order

  1. Just Ella (1999)
  2. Palace of Mirrors (2008)
  3. Palace of Lies (2015)

The Missing Books In Publication Order

  1. Found (2008)
  2. Sent (2009)
  3. Sabotaged (2010)
  4. Torn (2011)
  5. Caught (2012)
  6. Sought (2013)
  7. Risked (2013)
  8. Rescued (2014)
  9. Revealed (2014)
  10. Redeemed (2015)

Under Their Skin Books In Publication Order

  1. Under Their Skin (2016)
  2. In Over Their Heads (2017)

Children of Exile Books In Publication Order

  1. Children of Exile (2016)
  2. Children of Refuge (2017)
  3. Children of Jubilee (2018)

The 39 Clues Books In Publication Order

  1. The Maze of Bones (By:Rick Riordan) (2008)
  2. One False Note (By:Gordon Korman) (2008)
  3. The Sword Thief (By:Peter Lerangis) (2009)
  4. Beyond the Grave (By:Jude Watson) (2009)
  5. The Black Circle (By:Patrick Carman) (2009)
  6. In Too Deep (By:Jude Watson) (2009)
  7. The Viper’s Nest (By:Peter Lerangis) (2010)
  8. The 39 Clues: Agent Handbook (By:) (2010)
  9. The Emperor’s Code (By:Gordon Korman) (2010)
  10. Storm Warning (By:Linda Sue Park) (2010)
  11. Into the Gauntlet (2010)
  12. Vespers Rising (By:Rick Riordan) (2011)
  13. The Black Book of Buried Secrets (Companion Book) (By:Rick Riordan) (2012)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Running Out of Time (1995)
  2. Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey (1997)
  3. Leaving Fishers (1997)
  4. Turnabout (2000)
  5. The Girl with 500 Middle Names (2001)
  6. Takeoffs and Landings (2001)
  7. Because of Anya (2002)
  8. Escape from Memory (2003)
  9. The House on the Gulf (2004)
  10. Say What? (2004)
  11. Double Identity (2005)
  12. Dexter the Tough (2007)
  13. Uprising (2007)
  14. Claim to Fame (2009)
  15. The Always War (2011)
  16. Game Changer (2012)
  17. Full Ride (2013)
  18. The Summer of Broken Things (2018)
  19. Remarkables (2019)
  20. The School for Whatnots (2022)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. On the Edge (2000)
  2. Swashbuckling Fantasy (2006)

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Margaret Peterson Haddix Books Overview

Among the Hidden

Luke has never been to school. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family’s farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl’s face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he’s met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?

Among the Impostors

It was awful. All those eyes, all looking at him. It was straight out of Luke’s worst nightmares. Panic rooted him to the spot, but every muscle in his body was screaming for him to run, to hide anywhere he could. For twelve years his entire life he’d had to hide. To be seen was death. ‘Don’t!’ he wanted to scream. ‘Don’t look at me! Don’t report me! Please!’ But the muscles that controlled his mouth were as frozen as the rest of him. The tiny part of his mind that wasn’t flooded with panic knew that that was good now that he had a fake I.D., the last thing he should do was act like a boy who’s had to hide. But to act normal, he needed to move, to obey the man at the front and sit down. And he couldn’t make his body do that, either. from Among the Impostors Luke Garner is terrified. Out of hiding for the first time in his life, he knows that any minute one of his new classmates at Hendricks School for Boys could discover his secret: that he’s a third child passing as the recently deceased Lee Grant. And in a society where it’s illegal for families to have more than two children, being a third child means certain death at the hands of the dreaded Population Police. His first experience outside the safety of his home is bewildering. There’s not a single window anywhere in the school; Luke can’t tell his classmates apart even as they subject him to brutal hazing; and the teachers seem oblivious to it all. Desperate to fit in, Luke endures the confusion and teasing until he discovers an unlocked door to the outside, and a chance to understand what is really going on. But to take this chance to find out the secrets of Hendricks Luke will need to put aside his fears and discover a courage that a lifetime in hiding couldn’t thwart. Once again, best selling author Margaret Peterson Haddix delights her fans with this spine tingling account of an all too possible future. Among the Impostors is a worthy companion to Among the Hidden and a heart stopping thriller in its own right.

Among the Betrayed

‘Everything that had happened to Nina was real. She had real handcuffs on her wrists, real scars on her back, real fear flooding her mind.

”They’re going to kill me,’ Nina whispered, and it was almost a relief to finally, finally give up hope.’

In a society that allows no more than two children per family under penalty of death, third children are forced into hiding, or to live with false identity papers. In Among the Impostors, Nina Idi was arrested for treason for supposedly trying to trick the Population Police into arresting other students she said were illegal third children. Now she faces torture or death unless she agrees to betray three other imprisoned third children. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets the prisoners who are only ten, nine, and six.

As she did so brilliantly in the Publishers Weekly best selling Among the Hidden and in Among the Impostors, Margaret Peterson Haddix once again brings readers to a world in which nothing is as it seems a world in which an imprisonment leads to an adventure of mind, body, and spirit.

Among the Barons


Smits had nothing left of his brother.
He was gone.

And Luke had taken his name.

How could anyone hear Smits sobbing and think he was merely a foolish, homesick kid? Luke knew what grief was like…
. What if Oscar suddenly understood, too?

Smits’s grief was dangerous. Smits’s grief could kill Luke.


As a third child in a society that allows only two children per family, Luke Garner was in hiding for the first twelve years of his life. Then he was given the freedom of an identity card that had belonged to Lee Grant, a Baron a member of the highest class of society, and was sent to boarding school as Lee. But now, just when things are finally starting to go right, Lee’s little brother, Smits, arrives at school, and Luke finds himself caught in a web of lies that gets more complex with every passing day and possibly even lethal. Can Luke trust the grief stricken Smits to keep Luke’s secret? And can he trust Smits’s menacing bodyguard, Oscar?

Luke finds that living Among the Barons puts him in the deadliest danger he has ever faced.

As she did in Among the Hidden and the other Shadow Children books, Margaret Peterson Haddix depicts one individual trying to make sense of a world in which nothing is what it seems.

Among the Brave

In the aftermath of a crisis that threatens the safety of all shadow children illegal third borns in a society that allows only two children per family Trey’s friends expect him to take charge a function he doesn’t want or think he can do.

Trey’s new role leads him to travel with Luke Garner’s brother, Mark, to Population Police headquarters. There he impersonates an officer to try to rescue Luke, who has been taken prisoner. The nonstop adventure puts all three boys in danger and risks exposing the underground movement to help all shadow children.

In this, the fifth book in the Shadow Children series, Margaret Peterson Haddix returns to the futuristic setting and compelling characters she created in Among the Hidden. With an adrenaline fueled plot and surprising twists, Haddix has again crafted a story that is suspenseful until the last page.

Among the Enemy

An ache grew in his throat and he wanted to sob, but he set his jaw and held it in. He’d been wrong to send Nina away, wrong to refuse to help her, wrong to let the commander treat him like a pet. He’d been wrong to think that everything ended when he lost Percy and Alia…
.I can stop this evil, he thought.

The Population Police are gaining more and more power, and illegal third borns are in increasing danger. Young Matthias finds himself caught in the cross fire between the Population Police and the rebels and unwittingly ends up saving the life of a Population Police officer. By way of reward, the officer takes Matthias to the luxury of Population Police headquarters to train him to become one of their own. There, among his most feared enemies, Matthias encounters Nina, another illegal third born, who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, he has no idea whom he can trust, and he’s mourning the loss of his friends Percy and Alia. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy?

In the most exciting Shadow Children book yet, Margaret Peterson Haddix examines how the courage of individuals can make an impact on growing evil.

Among the Free

‘Enough games,’ the man said, raising the gun yet again. ‘And enough of the Population Police, I say.’

This time he cocked the gun and aimed carefully.

This is real, Luke thought. This is really going to happen.

‘No, don’t!’ he screamed.

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 inadvertently sets off a rebellion that results in the overthrow of the government. The people are finally free. But who is in charge now? And will this new freedom be everything they had hoped?

With all of the plot twists and excitement Haddix’s fans have come to expect, Among the Free brings the Shadow Children sequence to a chilling conclusion.

Just Ella

‘Princess, nobody can stop those rumors. People would rather believe in fairy godmothers…
than think that you took charge of your own destiny.’

Like every commoner in the land, Ella dreams of going to the ball and marrying Prince Charming. But after she is chosen to marry the prince, life with the royal family is not the ‘happily ever after’ that Ella imagined. Pitiless and cold, the royals try to mold her into their vision of a princess. Ella’s life becomes a meaningless schedule of protocol, which she fears she will never grasp. And Prince Charming’s beautiful face hides a vacant soul.

Even as her life turns to misery, the stories persist that Ella’s fairy godmother sent her to the ball: How else could the poor girl wear a beautiful gown, arrive in a coach, and dance in those glass slippers? But there is no fairy godmother to help Ella escape the deadening life of the castle. Can she do it on her own?

Margaret Peterson Haddix’s reconstruction of the Cinderella legend without the magic how a commoner could have married the prince is a story as richly fascinating as the classic tale.

Palace of Mirrors

‘Somewhere in the world I have a tiara in a little box. It is not safe for me to wear it…
It is not safe for me even to tell anyone who I really am. But I know I have always known.’ Cecilia knows that she is not just another peasant girl; she is actually the true princess, in hiding until the evil forces that killed her parents are vanquished. A commoner named Desmia is on the throne as a decoy. As she gets older, Cecilia finds it harder to study statesmanship and palace protocol secretly at night and then pretend that she has nothing on her mind other than scrubbing the gruel stains out of her best apron by day. Cecilia knows that it is time to take charge. Along with her best friend, Harper, she flees to the capital city, determined to reclaim her throne and face the danger head on. When Harper and Cecilia reach the famed Palace of Mirrors, they discover complications: Princess Desmia believes an entirely different version of the story. Acclaimed author Margaret Peterson Haddix returns to the charmed world of Just Ella, where a princess in hiding and a pretender to the throne discover that nothing is as it appears.

Found

Thirteen year old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he’s never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who’s also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, ‘You are one of the missing.’ The second one says, ‘Beware! They’re coming back to get you.’ Jonah, Chip, and Jonah’s sister, Katherine, are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast smuggling operation, an airplane that appeared out of nowhere and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. The kids discover they are caught in a battle between two opposing forces that want very different things for Jonah and Chip’s lives. Do Jonah and Chip have any choice in the matter? And what should they choose when both alternatives are horrifying? With Found, Margaret Peterson Haddix begins a new series that promises to be every bit as suspenseful as her Shadow Children series which has sold more than 4 and 1/2 million copies and proves her, once again, to be a master of the page turner.

Sent

‘I think it’s probably safe to say, given when you should have landed, that you’re…
um…
‘ ‘Tell me!’ ‘I think, right now, you’re the king of England.’ Thirteen year olds Jonah and Chip are reeling from the news that they’re both missing children from history, kidnapped from their proper time period. Before they can fully absorb this revelation, a time purist named JB zaps Chip and another boy, Alex, back to the fifteenth century, where they supposedly belong. Determined not to lose their friends, Jonah and his sister, Katherine, grab Chip’s arms just as he’s being sent away. The result? Jonah and Katherine also end up in the fifteenth century, where they decidedly do not belong. Chip’s true identity is Edward V, king of England, and Alex is his younger brother, Richard, Duke of York. But Chip is convinced that his uncle, Richard of Gloucester, plans to kill them and seize the throne for himself. JB promises that if the kids can ‘fix time,’ he will allow them to return to the present day. But how can they possibly return home safely when history claims that Chip and Alex were murdered? In a riveting tale that climaxes on the battlefield at Bosworth, master storyteller Margaret Peterson Haddix brings readers back in time to an unforgettable moment in history and plunges them into the adventure of a lifetime.

Sabotaged

After helping Chip and Alex survive fifteenth 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 dangerously awry, they realize that they may be in over their heads: They ve landed in the wrong time period, and Andrea doesn t seem that interested in leaving the past. Even worse, it appears that someone has deliberately Sabotaged their mission…
.

Torn

Still reeling from their experiences in Roanoke in 1600, Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 only moments before a mutiny on Henry Hudson’s ship in the icy waters of James Bay. But things are messed up: They ve lost the real John Hudson, and they find what seems to be the fabled Northwest Passage even though they are pretty sure that route doesn t actually exist. Will this new version of history replace everything they ve ever known? Is this the end of time as we know it? With more at stake than ever before, Jonah and Katherine struggle to unravel the mysteries of 1611 and the Hudson Passage…
before everything they know is lost.

The Maze of Bones (By:Rick Riordan)

Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: ‘You have a choice one million dollars or a clue.’

Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world’s most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 clues hidden around the world will reveal the family’s secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and young Amy and Dan must decide what’s important: hunting clues or uncovering what REALLY happened to their parents.

The 39 Clues is Scholastic’s groundbreaking new series, spanning 10 adrenaline charged books, 350 trading cards, and an online game where readers play a part in the story and compete for over $100,000 in prizes.

The 39 Clues books set the story, and the cards, website and game allow kids to participate in it. Kids visit the website www. the39clues. com and discover they are lost members of the Cahill family. They set up online accounts where they can compete against other kids and against Cahill characters to find all 39 clues. Through the website, kids can track their points and clues, manage their card collections, dig through the Cahill archives for secrets and ‘travel’ the world to collect Cahill artifacts, interview characters, and hunt down clues. Collecting cards helps: Each card is a piece of evidence containing information on a Cahill, a clue, or a family secret.

Every kid is a winner we’ll give away prizes through books, the website and the cards, including a grand prize of $25,000!

NARRATED by David Pittu

One False Note (By:Gordon Korman)

Super selling author Gordon Korman sends Amy and Dan off on a wild chase in Book 2 of the highly anticipated ’39 Clues’ series. This just in! Amy and Dan Cahill were spotted on a train, hot on the trail of one of 39 Clues hidden around the world. But wait! Police report a break in at an elite hotel, and the suspects also sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. Update! Amy and Dan have been seen in a car…
no, in a speedboat chase…
and hold everything! They’re being chased by an angry mob. When there’s a Clue on the line, anything can happen. Think you’ve gone everywhere books can take you? Think again. Books are going to a new place but you have to follow the clues to get there. Join Amy and Dan as they continue the hunt for the 39 Clues in ‘Book Two: One False Note’. The high octane adventures will continue for a total of ten exhilarating books written by well known authors over two years. ‘The 39 Clues’ also encompas*ses hundreds of game cards and an online world that allows you to play a part in the story and compete for 100s of prizes, totaling over GBP50,000.

The Sword Thief (By:Peter Lerangis)

ATTENTION! Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreliable Alistair Oh. Could they have been foolish enough to make an alliance? Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well guarded…
and the price to uncover them just might be lethal. EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIAL: Listen to an Ekaterina leadership meeting & find out about a secret ally!

Beyond the Grave (By:Jude Watson)

Bestselling author Jude Watson whisks Amy and Dan to the tombs of Egypt in the thrill packed 4th installment of the 39 Clues. FORMAT: 4 CDs, UnabridgedNARRATOR: David PittuA Clue found in Book 3 sends Amy and Dan jetting off to find out just what’s behind the fierce rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of the Cahill family. Was a Clue stolen from the Tomas branch? Where is it now? And most important, can Amy and Dan get their hands on it before their rivals do?It’s a wild race that will take Amy and Dan deep into the bowels of the earth…
and right into the hands of the enemy

The Black Circle (By:Patrick Carman)

Bestselling author Patrick Carman sends Dan and Amy on a twisting thrill ride adventure in the highly anticipated Book Five of the 39 Clues series. FORMAT: 4 CDs, UnabridgedNARRATOR: David PittuJOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!INCOMING! Amy and Dan have been found UNHARMED! But perhaps not for long the ruthless Irina Spasky is right on their tail. And WHAT are those crazy kids doing poking their noses into Lucian secrets?!? Are they TRYING to get themselves killed?The 39 Clues Book 5 takes Dan and Amy on their most dangerous quest yet, one that brings them face to face with the only force capable of scaring the vicious Lucians: the Madrigals.

In Too Deep (By:Jude Watson)

Could Amy and Dan’s biggest enemy be…
a friend? The 39 Clues Book 6 challenges everything you thought you knew about the Clue race. FORMAT: 4 CDs, UnabridgedNARRATOR: David PittuJOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!The 39 Clues gets deadly. Book 6 takes Amy and Dan across oceans on the trail of a famous aviator, but they find more than they’re looking. Their enemies are becoming more vicious, and the truths they discover more crushing than ever. The Cahill family will stop and nothing to get the 39 Clues…
and this time, the competition is fatal.

The Viper’s Nest (By:Peter Lerangis)

JOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN! It’s no longer a game. The body count is rising. Shaken by recent events, Amy and Dan flee to a distant land and trace the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet: a military leader of mythic proportions. Yet just as the siblings begin to master the art of ancient warfare, they confront a dangerous enemy that can’t be felled with a sword: the truth. With the stakes higher than ever, Amy and Dan uncover something so devastating it changes everything the secret of their family branch.

The Emperor’s Code (By:Gordon Korman)

JOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!

As the race to find the 39 Clues builds to its explosive finish, Amy and Dan must explore an ancient culture and steal a Clue guarded by thousands of the world’s best-trained soldiers. It’s the most dangerous Clue search yet. As their enemies crowd in, Amy and Dan find themselves separated for the first time ever. The choice lies before them – find the next Clue, or find their way back to each other.

Be the first to find out where the next Clue is! There are three messages hidden on the cover of Book 8: The Emperor’s Code. Go to www. the39clues. com/theemperorscode for a blow up of the cover, enter the secret messages you find, and unlock a page from The Emperor’s Code that reveals the whereabouts of the next Clue.

Storm Warning (By:Linda Sue Park)

The end is near! Book 9 of the 1 NY Times Bestselling series. JOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan have encountered some of the darkest aspects of history…
and had to deal with the role their family played. But are they ready for the truth? In this thrilling ninth installment, Amy and Dan hit the high seas as they follow the trail of some infamous ancestors to track down a long lost treasure. However, the real prize isn’t hidden in a chest. It’s the discovery of the Madrigals’ most dangerous secret and, even more shockingly, the true identity of the mysterious man in black.

Into the Gauntlet

The explosive finale to Scholastic’s mega selling seriesThroughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history’s greatest mysteries and their family’s deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? After a whirlwind race that’s taken them across five continents, Amy and Dan face the most the difficult challenge yet a task no Cahill dared to imagine. When faced with a choice that could change the future of the world, can two kids succeed where 500 years worth of famous ancestors failed?

Vespers Rising (By:Rick Riordan)

Are you ready to save the world? The bestselling series returns with an adventure spanning 6 explosive books, 2 secret filled card packs, and a website that places readers right in the action. Thirteen year old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, thought they belonged to the world’s most powerful family. They thought the hunt for 39 Clues leading to the source of that power was over. They even thought they’d won. But Amy and Dan were wrong. One by one, distress calls start coming in from around the globe. Cahills are being kidnapped by a shadowy group known only as the Vespers. Now Amy and Dan have only days to fulfill a bizarre ransom request or their captured friends will start dying. Amy and Dan don’t know what the Vespers want or how to stop them. Only one thing is clear. The Vespers are playing to win, and if they get their hands on the Clues…
the world will be their next hostage.

The Black Book of Buried Secrets (Companion Book) (By:Rick Riordan)

For the past five hundred years, the Cahills have silently dominated the world. Their desperate hunt for the 39 Clues lies behind some of history’s biggest enigmas the curse of the Hope diamond, the race to summit Mt. Everest, the wild life and death of Harry Houdini. And now finally the secrets are out. With an introduction by Rick Riordan, The 39 Clues: The Black Book of Buried Secrets reveals the shocking truth about history s most notorious family. In full, lush color, The 39 Clues: The Black Book of Buried Secrets lays bare each hidden fact, concealed strategy, top agent, lost founder, secret base and hushed up scandal of the Clue hunt. This complete guide to the Cahills contains information on all five branches, including the notoriously elusive Madrigals. The must know information includes: Full files on the enigmatic Man in Black. The true purpose of the Madrigal branch. The complete story of the fire that split the original Cahill family. The truth about the night Hope and Arthur Cahill died. Open access to the secrets of the Lucian, Ekaterina, Tomas and Janus branches. It s never too late to join the hunt especially with The 39 Clues: The Black Book of Buried Secrets to provide complete access to the Cahill s most deeply buried secrets.

Running Out of Time

Run For Your LifeJessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840 or so she believes. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie’s mother reveals a shocking secret it’s actually 1996, and they are living in a reconstructed village that serves as a tourist site. In the world outside, medicine exists that can cure the dread disease, and Jessie’s mother is sending her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening than she could have imagined, and soon she finds her own life in jeopardy. Can she get help before the children of Clifton, and Jessie herself, run out of time?

Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

Things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something…
Everyone has to keep a journal in Mrs. Dunphrey’s English class, but the teacher has promised she won’t read any entry marked ‘Do not read this.’ It’s the kind of assignment Tish Bonner, one of the girls with big hair who sit in the back row, usually wouldn’t take very seriously. But right now, Tish desperately needs someone to talk to, even if it’s only a notebook she doesn’t dare let anyone read. As Tish’s life spins out of control, the entries in her journal become more and more private…
and dangerous. Is she risking everything that matters to her by putting the truth on paper? And is she risking more by keeping silent?

Leaving Fishers

Dorry is unbearably lonely at her new high school until she meets Angela and her circle of friends. She soon discovers they all belong to a religious group, the Fishers of Men. At first, as Dorry becomes involved with the Fishers, she is eager to fit in and flattered by her new friends’ attention. But the Fishers make harsh demands of their members, and Dorry must make greater and greater sacrifices. In demonstrating her devotion, Dorry finds herself compromising her grades, her job, and even her family’s love. How much is too much? And where will the cult’s demands end?

Turnabout

‘It isn’t natural for you to be younger than your great grandchildren. We messed around with nature, and we shouldn’t have.’

Melly and Anny Beth both lived normal lives throughout the twentieth century. But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die, they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and are given an injection to make them grow younger. At some point these participants are to receive another injection, which will stop the unaging process.

But everyone who receives the second shot dies.

Now, in 2085, Melly and Anny Beth are both in their teens and living on their own. They know they will need someone to take care of them when they grow too young to care for themselves. Time is running out.

In this spellbinding race against time, award winning author Margaret Peterson Haddix explores a scientific experiment gone wrong, and the morality of immortality.

The Girl with 500 Middle Names

‘That’s not your name,’ the girl beside me said as I was hanging up my coat. She was reading my sweater.

‘Maybe Alexandria is my middle name,’ I said.

Janie’s mother started a knitting business just so Janie’s family could move and Janie could go to a better school. But Janie is poorer than her new classmates, and she doesn’t fit in. When her mother’s business falls apart, Janie thinks of a way to help her family. But it means she will stand out even more. Is she strong enough to face the challenge?

This is the heartwarming story of a girl whose belief in her family enables her to risk embarrassment and to make new friends.

Takeoffs and Landings

‘I read someplace that Takeoffs and Landings are the most dangerous part…
.’ After Chuck and Lori’s father died in a tractor accident, their mother unexpectedly found a career as a motivational speaker. Since then, Mom has spent most of her time flying across the country for speaking engagements, leaving Chuck and Lori behind with their three younger siblings on their grandparents’ Ohio farm. Eight years after the accident, Chuck and Lori barely know their mother anymore, much less themselves: Chuck is perpetually self conscious and awkward, while Lori can barely hide her resentment of her mother’s absence. Now Mom is going on another speaking tour. But this trip is different: Chuck and Lori are coming with her. As soon as their first plane takes off, Chuck and Lori start the painful process of reconnecting with Mom. Through an emotional two weeks of flying around the country, the taboo subject of Dad’s accident is finally broached, and all three begin to understand themselves and one another in ways that they had not expected. By the final landing back in Ohio, it is clear that none of them will ever be the same. Award winning author Margaret Peterson Haddix delivers another tour de force in which the examination of a family in turmoil resonates with truth. Takeoffs and Landings may be the most dangerous parts of a trip, but as Mom says, they can also be the best.

Because of Anya

TEN YEAR OLD GIRLS DON’T WEAR WIGS So why is Anya wearing one? That’s what Keely’s friend Stef wants to know. She even wants Keely to tug on it, just to see if it’s real. Keely wants to know too but when Anya’s wig falls off in front of the whole class, Keely discovers that what she really wants is to help Anya feel better. As for Anya, she just wants her hair to grow back, but no one, not even the doctors, knows whether it ever will. How can she come to terms with her disease when she can’t even look in the mirror? In this heart tugging story of friendship, renowned author Margaret Peterson Haddix introduces readers to a young girl with alopecia areata, a life altering disease that affects millions of people in the United States alone.

Escape from Memory

‘Well, I’m sure I don’t have any secrets…
,’ I said, trying to sound certain. ‘Can’t we just tell them that?’

Mom’s steady gaze was driving me crazy.

‘Oh,’ she said slowly, ‘but that’s where you’re wrong. You see, you do have the secrets. You know them.’

When Kira agrees to let her friends hypnotize her at a slumber party, she has no idea that she will reveal secrets even she didn’t know she had — memories of fleeing a war-torn country with her mother, understanding a language she can’t identify. Then her mother disappears, and a woman calling herself Aunt Memory takes Kira to Crythe, a place that doesn’t officially exist, in order to rescue her mother — or so Kira thinks. She soon learns that there are memories locked in her mind that place her and her mother in grave danger, but those memories are also the only thing that might save them.

In Escape from Memory, award-winning author Margaret Peterson Haddix imagines a culture that values its memories above everything else — and a teen who has to make the most important decision of her life.

The House on the Gulf

NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS. When Britt’s older brother, Bran, lands a summer job house sitting in Florida, it seems like a great opportunity. Britt’s family has just recently moved to Florida, and could use the extra money while her mom finishes college. There’s only one problem: Britt starts to suspect her family isn’t supposed to be there. Britt starts poking around, and makes a startling discovery the owners of the house aren’t who Bran says they are. So whose house are they living in, and why has Bran brought them there?

Say What?

Sukie is worried her parents are acting strange. When she runs in the house, her dad asks, ‘If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off a bridge too?’ When she eats peas with her fingers, Mom yells, ‘You’ll put an eye out with that thing!’ What is going on? Have her parents been replaced by aliens? Are they robots with broken circuits? She and her older brothers decide to investigate. And what they discover leads to a kids against parents WAR! This very funny book casts a new light on family rules.

Double Identity

So my only protection is a kindergarten teacher and a ninety eight pound female minister…
. And they don’t even believe I’m in danger. As Bethany approaches her thirteenth birthday, her parents begin acting more oddly than usual: Her mother cries constantly, and her father barely lets Bethany out of his sight. Then one morning he hustles the entire family into the car, drives across several state lines and leaves Bethany with an aunt she never knew existed. Bethany has no idea what’s going on. She’s worried that her mom and dad are running from some kind of trouble, but she can’t find out because they won’t tell her where they are going. Bethany’s only clue is a few words she overheard her father tell her aunt Myrlie: ‘She doesn’t know anything about Elizabeth.’ But Aunt Myrlie won’t tell Bethany who Elizabeth is, and she won’t explain why people in her small town react to Bethany as if they’ve seen a ghost. The mystery intensifies when Bethany gets a package from her father containing four different birth certificates from four states, with four different last names and thousands of dollars in cash. And when a strange man shows up asking questions, Bethany realizes she’s not the only one who’s desperate to unravel the secrets of her past. In this exhilarating thriller, Margaret Peterson Haddix crafts a taut story so full of twists and turns, readers will be gripped until the startling conclusion.

Dexter the Tough

I’m the new kid. I am tuf. This morning I beat up a kid. It’s only the first day of school for Dexter, but he’s already mad at the principal, and the secretary, and the janitor, and the kids who laugh at him. When his teacher tells the class to write a story, Dexter writes about how tough he is and how he’s already gotten into a fight. Is any of Dexter’s story true? Why was the other boy crying before Dexter hit him? And why would the other boy still want to be Dexter’s friend? Even Dexter doesn’t know the answers to some of those questions. But as he deals with family problems, a persistent teacher, and a boy who’s strangely interested in floor wax, he discovers many surprises hidden in his own tale.

Uprising

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 at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. There, along with hundreds of other immigrants, she works long hours at a grueling job under terrible conditions. Yetta, a coworker from Russia, has been crusading for a union, and when factory conditions worsen, she helps workers rise up in a strike. Wealthy Jane learns of the plight of the workers and becomes involved with their cause. Bella and Yetta are at work and Jane is visiting the factory on March 25, 1911, when a spark ignites some cloth and the building is engulfed in fire, leading to one of the worst workplace disasters ever. Margaret Peterson Haddix draws on extensive historical research to bring the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire to tangible life through her thrilling story of Bella, Yetta, and Jane.

Claim to Fame

Lindsay Scott hit the big time at age five, when she became the star of the television show ‘Just Me and the Kids.’ It seemed like she was set for life until she had a nervous breakdown when she was eleven, because Lindsay had suddenly developed a very dangerous sense of ESP the ability to hear what anyone was thinking about here, at any time, anywhere in the world. Lindsay’s father whisked her away to her long gone mother’s house in small town Springdale, and Lindsay was amazed to discover that within the four walls of the house, she can’t hear anything out of the ordinary. And so Lindsay has stayed hidden in the house, safe from other people’s thoughts, doing her best to stay out of sight and let the world forget her. When the tabloids print a ‘where are they now’ story about her, claiming that Lindsay’s maniacal father has kept her imprisoned in her house for the past five years, a couple of well meaning teens attempt to ‘rescue’ Lindsay. For the first time in five years, Lindsay is outside the protective quiet of her house. And that’s when she hears the one voice she never expected to hear: her mother’s. When she discovers that perhaps her mother didn’t leave voluntarily, she has a choice to make: will she risk everything to find the truth about her past and the source of her ability?

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