The final book in the series is here! The most interesting one in the series, and also when all the Cahill's unite against a crazy Cahill named Isabel. The genre is fiction, mystery and realistic fiction. I thought this book was very detailed and showed us the rest of the secrets of the 39 clues ...
Into The GauntletMargaret Peterson HaddixDan, Amy and Nellie get a clue, figure it out and go to a island and all the other groups follow them. They all go in the gauntlet and they make it to the end just to find out that Isabelle Kabra beat them and she forces them to say their ingredients and s...
The Always War is a science fiction book full of action and adventure. The war has been going for 75 long and hard years. Tessa a young, intelligent girl, is watching her neighbor, Gideon Thrall, getting a medal for his courage in the war he has fought in.Later, in the story, they go into enemy t...
This is the book series that not only got me into reading but gave me what genre I liked: Dystopian. Haddox does such an amazing job at making the story line believable and making Luke the main character and drawing force while also letting you get to know other characters. Even when other books ...
I think Risked was a very good book. It kept me on the edge of my seat wondering how they were going to get out of the problem they got themselves into. The book had many problems that had to be immediately solved or they would be dead. The book also acknowledges lots of historical standpoints si...
I loved this series! I could read it over and over and never get bored with it. I want to read them again soon, and if I got them for Christmas, I would be glued to the couch for weeks reading through them all. I think this series has a great plot and a really cool message about survival and purs...
This is a great series. The author keeps you hanging on when you just think you know everything that is going on. This is a great series for kids to get hooked on.Books 1-3 are a smaller books and I notice that books 4-7 are longer books. Information gets added and more challenging to figure thin...
The book Claim to Fame by Margaret Peterson Haddix was an okay book. This book was a little boring because I like books with some action, like tragedy deaths, in it. This book didn't have any of that. With those things I like in a book, plus a lot of mystery, I have to give this book a 2 star rat...
They could have made this book a little better because stuff actually starts to happen around chapter 12 and everthing before that is slow and boring. THe good thing about this book is that it makes you really think "What if that happened?" What if the government allowed two kids? That would be c...
I think that this book was very mysterious and quite the cliffhanger. After Chip finds out he was adopted to they go on an adventure to find out who they really are. I recommend this book to people who are interested in Sci-fi and if this book has it's very own series that I cannot wait to read...
1/ Paragraph 1: SummaryThis book is the fifth book of the Shadow Children Series Haddix. At this time, the government installs a law saying that there can only be two children per family, so the government makes the population police. The population police is an organization that tries to catch t...
I’ve read a lot of Margaret Peterson Haddix’s books. And I noticed that no matter what the plot is or who the main character is, there’s one common theme – the main character is a kid, and the adults won’t tell him or her anything.Not that it’s a bad thing, mind you. The “what the heck is going...
Margaret Peterson Haddix' Among the Brave is a science fiction story, focuses on what the character does to rescue what he needs to rescue for. The character has to go through many different obstacles to rescue that objective.Trey, the protagonist or hero, is a "third child", described so by the ...
I decided to read “Among the Betrayed” by Margaret Peterson Haddix because I read her first two books in the shadow child sequence and I loved them. “Among the Betrayed was an attention-grabbing book. I kept wanting to read more. The main character is this book is Nina. Nina is a shadow child wit...
Among The Imposters- Post 1/4 Luke Garner masked himself for the sake of his family, he masked himself from society. In a crumbling world, the third child in any family is meant to be cast away due to a government that can't sustain the population. His whole life has been spent running and hi...
Nick PeotterMrs. WhiteOctober 30, 2014Advanced English, Hour 8Among the BaronsHave you ever heard of the one child policy in China? Well thats kind of what happened in the book i'm reading called Among the Barons by the well known author Margaret Peterson Haddix. Among the Barons is the fourth bo...
The issue faced by the characters in the book, that of overpopulation and what to do about it, is an important one, and deserves to have a children's book written about it. The possibility that we will one day be limited to two children or fewer per family, and people will undergo forced steriliz...
Jessie is growing up in 1840 in Clifton, Indiana. She spends her days like all the other kids in the frontier village; she goes to school and does chores. Lately a lot of kids have been missing from school because of illness. One night, Jessie's mother takes her along to help a nearby child who i...
Have you ever felt like you are being forced to do things you dont want to by your friends? Well the book called Leaving Fishers is pretty much all about "friends" pushing her into doing things she doesn't want to do. The author had a good strategy to keep readers hooked to the book. What I did a...
When I began reading this, my eyes started rolling and all I could think of is, "Oh no, not another teen angst story!" However, as I continued I realized this story was much more. It is very simply written and could easily be overlooked. But somehow this short novel worked for me. I loved how...
Very educational book about alopecia areata. I appreciated that the author told the story from both the point of view of a girl who has the condition and a classmate who wants to help her but doesn't know quite how. It made me think about other conditions as well. Reading this book gave me enc...