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Margaret Peterson Haddix has taken on a variety of hard-hitting issues and subjects over the course of her writing career. She writes about fantasy and reality, over the past, present…
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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…
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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…
New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix delivers the thrilling conclusion to her middle grade Mysteries of Trash and Treasure series as Colin and Nevaeh unravel their most personal…
Hypnotized at a party, Kira recalls fleeing a war-torn country with her mother. A few days later her mother disappears, and a woman who calls herself Kira’s Aunt Memory appears…
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While playing in the championship softball game, star pitcher KT Sutton blacks out and awakes to a changed world where the roles of academics and sports at her middle school…
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…
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…
Janie’s parents move to the suburbs so she can go to a better school, but when she discovers that all the other students are richer than she is, she feels…
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…
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th-century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child: Virginia Dare of the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
After her father is convicted of embezzlement, Becca Jones, fourteen, and her mother flee Georgia for small-town Ohio but three years later she learns that his misdeeds may have jeopardized…
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…
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…
After a terrible fire destroys her home and kills her twelve sister-princesses, Desmia must rise above those who intend to manipulate her and sieze power for themselves–and find out the…
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…
After Edwy is smuggled off to Refuge City to stay with his brother and sister, Rosi, Bobo, and Cana are stuck alone–and in danger–in Cursed Town in the thrilling follow-up…
A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
Jonah and Katherine embark on a chilling journey to discover the Northwest Passage in this new installment of the New York Times -bestselling series that brings history to life.
Newly arrived in New York City in 1910, Bella is desperate to send money home to her family in Italy, and becomes one of the hundreds of workers at the…
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.
RThe author of Escape from Memory and the Shadow Children series has penned another suspenseful novel guaranteed to keep readers riveted.S– Booklist.
After the death of her father, 14-year-old Lori resents that her mother, a motivational speaker, virtually abandoned the family. When her mother invites Lori and her brother Chuck for a…
After a mysterious cameo from Charles Lindbergh, it’s up to Jonah to save his town in the seventh book of this New York Times -bestselling series, which Kirkus Reviews calls…
Jonah was able to save all of time from collapsing but in doing so gained a twin brother, Jordan, who must learn what has happened and do his own part…
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…
When Jonah and Katherine find themselves on a mission to return Alexei and Anastasia Romanov to history and then save them from the Russian Revolution, they are at a loss…
Another jaw-dropping series from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix is now available in a collectible boxed set!
Twelve years ago, all of the children of Earth were…
After secretly receiving injections at the age of 100 that are meant to reverse the aging process, Melly and Anny Beth grow younger until, as teenagers, they try to find…
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…
To conclude her bestselling Shadow Children series, Haddix revisits Luke Garner, an illegal third-born in a futuristic society that allows only two children per family.
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…
From master of suspense author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes another page-turning stand-alone adventure perfect for fans of Cog and Bad Magic.
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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…
Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex travel back to Britain in 1483, where they discover that Chip’s true identity is England’s Edward V, and that Alex is his younger brother. If…
Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex travel back to Britain in 1483, where they discover that Chip’s true identity is England’s Edward V, and that Alex is his younger brother. How…
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…
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…
