Matt, age 10, read the first book and insisted I begin it! I love that! So, yes, I am along for the ride! I will probably try to start reading book 3 as soon as I am able. I must have outgrown that annoying trait though, or else my love of The Time Traveler's Wife and Back to the Future caused me to just get a grip and go along for the ride!The premise for this series is that some children were removed from their proper time in the past because of what appeared to be inevitable death another heavy topic.The author manages to handle both topics in such a way that it makes for fun reading, action, and a bit of historical context for young readers.Our sons are reading these books. Goodness, it's a rare book about time travel that doesn't find me arguing against it being possible. This book takes Jonah and his sister Katherine and two of their friends on a quest into the past, literally, via time travel.It's a bit of a heavy topic for kids.

Sent is the second book in the 'Missing' series of juvenile fiction. I'm anxiously awaiting the next one, Haddix. The entertainment value of this novel is 5 stars, but it doesn't leave you with anything to think about and didn't change my life in anyway, so I give it 4 stars. The stock brainiac teen character who explains (probably inaccurately, thank goodness) all of the science to the physics-challenged reader does say that one has to stop looking at time as linear, but the story itself doesn't force you to do that. For those of you who enjoy time travel movies until the end, when you shake your head and say, 'Wait, how can the future have happened before the past?' this novel is for you. It all made sense, so therefore it's probably scientifically flawed. This novel is time travel for the feeble minded (at least the feebly science-minded). It gives me a headache and I see movies like The Terminator as having an inexcusable plot hole, but really it's just me. Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) is an American writer known best for the two childrens series, Shadow Children (19982006) and The Missing (20082015).

Never having taken a Physics class, nor having any interest in it at all, I cannot typically handle the concept of time travel, as it requires me to think of time in a non-linear way. I couldn't WAIT to find out what was going to happen next! I don't usually get THIS enthralled with the young adult novels I read, but this was just darn good. Never display translations Registered users can choose which translations are shown.I knew that this entered the '4 star' category when I drove across town to pick up the book from where I left it, after a fitful night of kicking myself for leaving it there.

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