Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Shadow children volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Gr 5-9-Haddix continues her science fiction dystopian tale about illegal third children in this sequel to Among the Hidden (1998) and Among the Imposters (2001, both S & S). Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police for being an illegal child. She is given the opportunity to save herself by spying on the other three children who are in the jail cell with her. Nina finds herself both drawn to them and fearful for her own life. When she has a chance...
2) Found
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The missing volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
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Series
Shadow children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
4) Caught
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The missing volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Gr 5-7-Luke, a third child, hides quietly in his house, eluding the Population Police because he lives in a society in which families are only allowed two children. Now he has a chance to come out of the shadows by taking on an assumed identity and leaving home. This sequel to Among the Hidden (S & S, 1998) has Luke, now Lee, entering the Hendricks School for boys and a completely new existence where he feels lost and confused by his surroundings....
6) Sent
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The missing volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover that Chip and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, imprisoned by their uncle, King Richard III, but trying to repair history without knowing what is supposed to happen proves challenging. Author's note includes historical facts about the princes and king.
7) Torn
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The missing volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
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 to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Author's note includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.
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Shadow children volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Luke Garner is a third-born in a restricitve society that allows only two children per family. Risking his life, he came out of hiding to fight against the Population Police Laws. 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 for? When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion...
9) Sabotaged
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The missing volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
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Series
Shadow children volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.
11) Among the enemy
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Series
Shadow children volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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In a society that allows families to have only two children, third child Matthias joins the Population Police to infiltrate their system.
12) The strangers
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Series
Greystone secrets volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"What makes you 'you'? Chess has always been the protector of his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn acts silly so he will be adored. They've been a happy family, the three of them and their mom. But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children--who share the same first and middle names and exact birth dates--reach the Greystone family. This bizarre coincidence makes them wonder: Who exactly are these strangers? Before Chess,...
13) Among the barons
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Series
Shadow children volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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In the future, false identities, government lies and death threats keep Luke from being safe with his new identify when the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken shows up at school.
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Running out of time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Believing herself to be a frontier child in 1840, Jessie is shocked when her mother reveals a secret--it's really 1996. After a diphtheria outbreak strikes the village children, Jessie must venture out into the modern world where she faces a wealth of confusing 20th century innovations and the sinister man who will stop at nothing to make sure the village residents remain locked in their 19th century world.
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Running out of time volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she's stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.
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Palace chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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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. Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.
17) Revealed
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Series
The missing volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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It?s morning as usual at the Skidmore household?until Charles Lindbergh, the famous historical pilot, appears in their living room. Jonah can hardly believe his eyes?and then Lindbergh grabs Katherine and vanishes again. And that?s not all. Chip, Andrea, and all the other children from the plane have disappeared too. And worst of all, Jonah?s parents and all the other adults in his town have de-aged into children. Jonah is the only one left, and the...
18) Just Ella
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Series
Palace chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
19) Risked
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Series
The missing volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths.
20) The deceivers
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Series
Greystone secrets volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
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 dimension where truth is illegal.