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Margaret Peterson Haddix
In this page-turning middle grade series by New York Times bestseller Margaret Peterson Haddix, Colin and Nevaeh, whose parents own rival junk-removal businesses, uncover mysteries hidden in attics and basements…
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Former child star Lindsay Scott has the ability to hear what anyone is saying about her, at any time, anywhere in the world. But when a tabloid story puts her…
Haddix tells the story of a peasant girl who knows she is a true princess while a commoner sits on the throne. As danger looms, she decides to reclaim her…
Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed…
Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when they learn they have to return Albert Einstein’s daughter to history, they think it’s a jokeNthey’ve only heard of…
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New York Times bestselling middle-grade thriller author Margaret Peterson Haddix returns to the Mysteries of Trash and Treasure series as Colin and Nevaeh unravel a mystery from the 1930s and…
One night a plane appears out of nowhere, the only passengers aboard: 36 babies. As soon as they are taken off the plane, they vanish. Now, 13 years later, two…
Return to the classic middle grade time-bending thriller Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, almost thirty years following its first publication, with this stunning repackage.
Clifton, Indiana, 1840…
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are…
The award-winning author of Just Ella delivers another thrilling novel in which a 12-year-old girl realizes that, during the summer she and her family house-sit in Florida, nothing is what…
Following the futuristic storylines of 1984 and Brave New World comes Among the Hidden . Luke is a third child in a family with already two boys. This is breaking…
An illegal third child, Luke Garner has been spent his life in hiding. Now, for the first time, Luke livesamong others. Then one day Luke discovers a door to the…
Nina Idi has been arrested for falsely accusing some classmates of being illegal third children–a capital crime in their society. Now she is being asked to betray others–or risk being…
As a third child in a society that allows only two children per family, Luke Garner discovers that living among the Grant family might be deadlier than he ever imagined.
In a futuristic society that allows only two children per family, some Shadow Children, illegal third-borns, take a stand. Luke Garner has been imprisoned by the Population Police, and it’s…
Matthias is an illegal third-born–a Shadow Child–living in a society that only allows two children per family. When Matthias encounters other third-borns, they ask him to join their campaign. Matthias…
RThe author of Escape from Memory and the Shadow Children series has penned another suspenseful novel guaranteed to keep readers riveted.S– Booklist.
Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted and sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts, once good friends, begrudgingly travel to Spain together for a summer vacation where they uncover a secret their families kept hidden from them…
Told from separate viewpoints, as Finn, Emma, and Chess Greystone and Natalie Mayhew, ages eight to thirteen, continue their quest to rescue their mothers they must return to the alternate…
Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley’s dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
Follows fifth grader Max as he searches for his best friend who disappeared, leaving behind a strange note.
Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she is stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help…
For use in schools and libraries only. Many surprises await twelve-year-old Edwy Watanaboneset when the Freds return him to Cursed Town, including that he has siblings in Refuge City who…
Kiandra has to use her wits and tech-savvy ways to help rescue Edwy, Enu, and the others from the clutches of the Enforcers in the thrilling final novel of the…
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it’s up to Jessie to…
Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone–ages 12, 10, and eight–investigate why their mother went missing and uncover their ties to an alternate world in the launch of a new series from…
Until their mother vanished, the Greystone kids–Chess, Emma, and Finn–knew nothing about the other world. Everything is different there. It’s a mirror image, except things are wrong. Evil. Now the…
Told from separate viewpoints, as evil forces from the parallel world invade their home, the Greystones, their doubles, and friends must return to the alternate dimension to save both worlds.
Throughout 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…
Government regulations limit families to two children each, so Luke, an illegal third-born, must live his life in secret, hidden in his family’s farmhouse. Then he joins Jen, another shadow…
To be a third child is to be in constant danger. For the first time, all seven books in this beloved and bestselling series are available together in an attractive…
Plunge into the past–and change the course of history–with all eight books in the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, now available in a collectible boxed set. Thirteen-year-old Jonah…
In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa, her childhood friend Gideon, now a traumatized military hero, and Dek, a streetwise orphan, enter enemy territory and discover the shocking truth…
Anya’s fourth-grade classmates don’t understand why she wears a wig, but when it falls off in front of the whole class, she reveals that she has alopecia areata, a disease…
A 15-year-old uses a class journal to contain a risky secret in this classic from New York Times -bestselling author Haddix, now with a new trim size and a new…
Newly arrived in New York City, Bella is desperate to send money home to her family in Italy, and becomes one of the hundreds of workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist…
From master of suspense author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes another page-turning stand-alone adventure perfect for fans of Cog and Bad Magic.
No matter what anyone tells you, I’m real.
That’s…
Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Margaret Peterson Haddix, where Zola discovers she's related to Jessie Keyser and her…