Sent (Missing Series #2) [NOOK Book]

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Overview


Jonah and Chip have barely adjusted to the discovery that they are actually the missing children of history when a time purist named JB sends them, along with Katherine and Alex, hurtling back in time to 1483. JB promises that if they can fix history, they can all return to their present-day lives. Now Chip and Alex have to reclaim their true identities—as the king and prince of England. But things get complicated when the four discover that according to the records, the princes were murdered. How can they fix history if it means that Chip and Alex will die? Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of Found, the bestselling Shadow Children series, Uprising, Running Out of Time, and many ...
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Overview


Jonah and Chip have barely adjusted to the discovery that they are actually the missing children of history when a time purist named JB sends them, along with Katherine and Alex, hurtling back in time to 1483. JB promises that if they can fix history, they can all return to their present-day lives. Now Chip and Alex have to reclaim their true identities—as the king and prince of England. But things get complicated when the four discover that according to the records, the princes were murdered. How can they fix history if it means that Chip and Alex will die? Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of Found, the bestselling Shadow Children series, Uprising, Running Out of Time, and many more
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    Margaret Peterson Haddix

Editorial Reviews

From Barnes & Noble
In the latest episode of Margaret Peterson Haddix's Missing series, there is good news and bad news: The good news is that time orphans Chip and Alex finally learn their true identities. The bad news is that they are the famous imprisoned "Princes in the Tower"! A fun history lesson tucked in a time travel adventure. Now in paperback.
Children's Literature
Sent, book number two in "The Missing" series, follows quickly on Margaret Peterson Haddix's smart and scary set-up story (Found (Missing Series #1)centered around the Midwest arrival of a mysterious planeload full of unattended babies. Fast-forward a dozen or so years, and the series' hero and heroine—thirteen-year-old Jonah and his younger sister Katherine—are whirling through time in pursuit of their friends Chip and Alex, who might actually, chronologically, belong to the fifteenth century. Wait . . . not just the fifteenth century, but the specific year within it that will find them imprisoned in the Tower of London as the two little princes murdered by the arch villain Richard III. Or were they? First the characters-and the reader-must get the hang of Haddix's slightly awkward "tracer" system of saving time travelers from changing the course of history. Next, Jonah and Katherine must rescue friends who might just prefer to stay in the late Middle Ages, thank you. All told, Haddix's clever premise has good fun with both history and Shakespeare. Also available in an eBook. Reviewer: Kathleen Karr
From The Critics
Gr 5–8—This book begins where Found (S & S, 2008) left off: Chip, Jonah, Katherine, and Alex are falling through time. They find themselves in 1483 in the Tower of London where the famously imprisoned princes, Edward and Richard, are fearfully awaiting their fates. As was revealed at the end of Found, Chip and Alex are really Edward and Richard, spirited away to our current century by time travelers in a misguided attempt to save their lives. The four fumble through attempts to figure out how to save them from their historically presumed deaths. While the children know next to nothing about the real princes, they have a firsthand chance to watch history in the making, all the while hoping that they won't alter time too much and end up getting the princes killed anyway. Haddix ratchets up the tension here, letting it mount in moment-by-moment near misses and escapes. The kids' futuristic helper, JB, tries his best to keep them from causing too much damage to time, showing himself to be on their side. Full of interesting historical details, but muddy with the science of time travel, this is a fantastic follow-up to the first book. Haddix even poses an interesting "what if" about the real fates of Edward and Richard. By the book's end, Jonah still doesn't know who he really is, and readers will be just as anxious as he is to find out. The next installment can't come quickly enough.—Necia Blundy, Marlborough Public Library, MA

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416996446
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
  • Publication date: 8/25/2009
  • Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 6,730
  • Age range: 9 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 730L (what's this?)
  • Series: Missing Series, #2
  • File size: 2 MB
  • Items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses.

Meet the Author

Margaret Haddix

Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of many critically and popularly acclaimed teen and middle-grade novels, all published by S&S. She lives in Powell, Ohio, with her husband and two children. A graduate of Miami University (of Ohio), she worked for several years as a reporter for The Indianapolis News. She also taught at the Danville (Illinois) Area Community College. She lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio.

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ONE

It was a rough landing. Lights streamed past Jonah’s face, an unbearable glare. Some force that had to be more than just gravity tugged on him, threatening to pull him apart from Chip and Katherine, from the Elucidator and the Taser, from his own self. The image that burned in his mind was of his body being split into individual cells, individual atoms. And then that image broke apart too, and he couldn’t think, couldn’t see, couldn’t hear. He could only feel time passing through him, time flipping back on itself, time pressing down, down, down. …

Then it was over. He lay in darkness, gasping for air. Dimly he heard JB’s voice say, “Welcome to the fifteenth century. Good luck.” But he couldn’t quite make sense of the words. It was like hearing something underwater, sounds from another world.

“You’re hiding, aren’t you? Staying out of sight?” It was JB’s voice again, hissing and anxious. “You have to stay out of sight.”

“Darkness,” Jonah mumbled. “Safe.”

His tongue felt too thick to speak with. Or maybe it was too thin—too insubstantial. He didn’t feel quite real.

There was movement beside him. Someone sitting up.

“You’d like to keep us in the dark, wouldn’t you?” Chip accused. “You didn’t tell us anything we’d need to know to survive in the fifteenth century.”

Whoa. How could Chip manage to sound so normal at a time like this? And so angry (which was pretty much normal for Chip)? Wasn’t his head spinning too? Wasn’t his vision slipping in and out of focus? Didn’t he feel like he might throw up if he had to do anything more strenuous than breathe?

“You didn’t even tell us who we’re supposed to be,” Chip continued.

Distantly, as if he was trying to retrieve a memory from centuries ago—no, he corrected himself, centuries ahead—Jonah puzzled over what Chip meant. Who we’re supposed to be … Oh, yeah. The whole reason they were in this mess was that a group of people from the future had gone through history plucking out endangered children. This would have been very noble and kind, except that they began carrying off famous kids, kids whose disappearances were noticed. JB, who seemed to oppose any tampering with history, was convinced that all of time was on the verge of collapse because of these rescues. He and his cohorts had managed to freeze the effects of the rescues—the “ripples,” as they called them—and gone after the missing children. There’d been a battle, and thirty-six kids from history had crash-landed at the very end of the twentieth century.

Chip was one of those kids.

So was Jonah.

For the past thirteen years, though, they’d known nothing about their true identities. They’d been adopted by ordinary American families and grown up in ordinary American suburbs, playing video games and soccer, trading PokÉmon cards, shooting hoops in their driveways. They had no way of knowing that their ordinary lives were ordinary only because they were in Damaged Time—time itself, trying to heal, had kept both sides of the battling time travelers out.

But Damaged Time had ended. And JB and his enemies, Gary and Hodge, immediately swooped in, each side eager to finish what they’d started.

And that, boys and girls, is how I came to be lying in the dark in the fifteenth century, Jonah thought, his mind working a little better now. That “boys and girls” line was imitating someone, someone on TV probably.

Someone who wouldn’t be born for another five hundred years.

A wave of nausea flowed over Jonah. He wasn’t sure if it was because it’d just sunk in that he was hundreds of years out of place, or if it was because his senses were working better now and he’d just realized that the fifteenth century reeked. A smell of mold and decay and—what was that, rotting meat?—surrounded him. And his nose brought him the first fact he was sure of about the fifteenth century: Whatever else was happening then, no one had modern flush toilets yet.

“Where is that Elucidator?” Chip demanded. He was feeling around on the floor now. “JB, you’ve got to tell me the truth. Who am I?”

“Well, it’s kind of a delicate situation,” JB hedged. “We shouldn’t be talking at all right now, until you’re sure that no one else can hear us. …”

His voice trailed off to just a whisper, which Jonah could barely hear. Why was Jonah having so many problems? He’d been holding the Elucidator—he ought to be able to tell Chip where it was. But his hands felt too numb to be sure if he was still clutching anything or not.

Meanwhile, Chip seemed perfectly capable of sliding his hands all around, groping all along the stones of the floor. He nudged first Jonah, then, apparently, Katherine. Jonah could hear her moaning softly, as if she felt every bit as miserable as Jonah did.

“So help me, JB. If you don’t tell me who I am, right now,” Chip fumed, “I’ll scream so loud that people will hear me in two centuries!”

“No, don’t,” JB begged. “I’ll tell you. Just be quiet. You’re … you’re …”

“Yes?” Chip said, his voice rising threateningly.

“It’s hard to pinpoint the date, exactly, since the three of you took the Elucidator, and that may have thrown some things off, but I think it’s probably safe to say, given when you should have landed, that you’re … um …”

“Tell me!”

“I think, right now, you’re the king of England.”

© 2009 Margaret Peterson Haddix

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  • Posted August 29, 2009

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    LOVED IT!

    I found the first book, Found, last year and LOVED it! So when I went to the bookstore and saw that the second one was out, I was really excited. I finished this book in less than a day. The characters are great and they really do develop over time. This was just one of those books I couldnt put down. Margaret Peterson Haddix is one of my favorite authors. I have read many other books by her such as the Shadow Children Series. She is an amazing author. Now i just have to wait until the next one!

    7 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 20, 2010

    Good Book

    I really liked the book it was interesting and kept you guessing most of the book

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted June 17, 2009

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    Not a waist of time

    I haven't read this particular book, but that does not mean that I can't be judge. All of Margret Peterson Haddix's books are amazing, inspiring, and always interesting. When you pick up the book, no matter who you are, you will NOT put it down. I started with the popular series, "The Shadow Children Series" in fourth grade. After that I couldn't get away from the thrilling numbers of books that Haddix has written. It is always a amazing book that you will never forget. Haddix never lets you down. To all aged writers this book will inspire you to write. Write and never stop. Haddix's books take you on a adventure that you wish to be never ending. And last, Haddix book's are interesting. You don't only enjoy, you learn. And you have a fun time doing it! Thats why I know, this book will be GREAT and I can't wait till I get it! The Haddix books are not a waist of time, they are something you defiantly want to stop for.

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 22, 2011

    do not by this book, I nearly died of boredom

    sucks, I did not even try to finish it. what a waste of money!

    the first book was a three star book but the second is a colosil fail!!!! :(!!!!!

    2 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 22, 2012

    Cool

    I LOVE this book!!!!!!!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 10, 2012

    Anonamous

    I have read found but i really want this one, but i barely got any money. And i am saving the money for another book that comes out soon. Someone help me please!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 5, 2012

    Great!

    I read Found earlier this year at the same time as my friend, and I always read ahead, because it was such a good book! Now, I'm reading Sent, and I love it! Right now, I'm on chapter 11, and it is already hard to put down! This is a great book, and I can't wait to read the others in the series! I would recommend this to any age, especially ages 10 to 14!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 1, 2012

    Good book

    Best book ever but kinda confusing

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 7, 2012

    A wonderful story

    I only have the sample,but it is still a very good book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 28, 2012

    Sent

    You will be blown away to the past.Fast paced and entertaining,this book has as much power as JB.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 27, 2012

    Sent

    I read the first one,Found, and it was great

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 22, 2012

    OK

    I think i expected too much. I like "FOUND" better. This is so boring. I couldn't get into this fifteen century world. Sorry.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 11, 2012

    A little romantic

    Great book. Normly don't read sci-fic, but i loved this book. I have read the 1st three and they are great 2.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 9, 2012

    Will they live?

    Read to find out what happens.this is a good book i dident rate it 5*s for no reason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!enjoy your adventures

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 8, 2012

    DesWiz

    This book was absolutely awsome. I have never read a book this great. Sooooooo exciting!!!!!)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2012

    Sent is a good book!!!

    Sent to me is an AWESOME book but if you don't like it don't get it that's why they have samples! So you can preview the book and im not trying to be mean or smart im just saying.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2011

    I know i put five stars but it really deserves 100000000000000000000000000000000000 stars cause it isso awesome

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2011

    Found

    I love this book its aws¿me

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 26, 2011

    Awesome!!!!

    I read the first bookbin the series, and it is amazing! I started the second book, it is about the same ratings as the first one. I recomend this to people who like adventures!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 25, 2011

    Awesomeness

    I love this book series thx mph! Thts margaret peterson haddix

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