Wake Up Missing

by Kate Messner

Overview

Four kids . . .
Two weeks in the Florida Everglades . . .
One top-secret science experiment that could change them and the world as they know it . . .

Meet football-star Quentin, hockey-player Sarah, horse-lover Ben, and artistic bird-watcher Cat. The four have little in common-except the head injuries that landed them in an elite brainscience center in the wild swamps of Florida. The clinic promises to return their lives to normal, but as days pass, the kids notice strange side effects and unexplained changes. Something about this clinic isn't right, and if they can't overcome their injuries--and their differences--to escape, they could lose themselves forever. . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802735478
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/10/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Lexile:	660L (what's this?)
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Kate Messner is passionately curious and writes books that encourage kids to wonder, too. Her titles include award-winning picture books like Over and Under the Snow, Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, and How to Read a Story; novels like Capture the Flag, All the Answers, The Seventh Wish, and Breakout; the Fergus and Zeke easy reader series, and the Ranger in Time historical chapter book series. Kate lives on Lake Champlain with her family and is trying to summit all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks in between book deadlines.
www.katemessner.com
@KateMessner
New York Times bestselling author Kate Messner is passionately curious and writes books for kids who wonder, too. Her titles include award-winning picture books like Over and Under the Snow, The Next Scientist, and The Scariest Kitten in the World as well as novels for older readers like Breakout and The Trouble with Heroes. Kate also writes the popular History Smashers graphic nonfiction series and leads the multi-author team behind The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class chapter books. She splits her time between Lake Champlain and Florida.

www.katemessner.com
@KateMessner

Falynn Koch was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She has an MFA in sequential art from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia and is a graduate of the International Culinary Center in New York City. She loves to travel, try new food, and explore the outdoors with her family and friends.

www.falynnk.com

Editorial Reviews

Middle grade readers seeking adventure stories will enjoy this title. The topics of gene therapy and bioethics provide the reader with food for thought long after the book ends.” —Library Media Connection

“Kate Messner combines a fascinating concept with page-turning suspense . . . Reading this book is like a wild roller-coaster ride through the Florida swamps.” —Margaret Peterson Haddix, author of The Missing and the Shadow Children series

“An exciting middle-grade thriller.” —Publishers Weekly

“Plenty of action. . . these heart-pounding scenes will be a hit.” —School Library Journal on Eye of the Storm

“Laced with humor and heart . . . an insightful and affecting read.” —Booklist on The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.

From the Publisher

Kate Messner combines a fascinating concept with page-turning suspense . . . Reading this book is like a wild roller-coaster ride through the Florida swamps.

author of The Missing and the Shadow Children seri Margaret Peterson Haddix

Six middle schoolers + mad scientists + Everglades = adventure. Cat, along with five other children who have suffered head injuries, goes to what is billed as the pre-eminent neurological center in the world, the International Center for Advanced Neurology, located in the Everglades. At first, she receives excellent care, but she soon overhears an ominous conversation that leads to her discovery of the awful truth: The terrible Dr. Ames and his colleague intend to implant the children with the DNA of long-dead scientists, including Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Marie Curie and even Leonardo da Vinci. Worse, they learn that Trent, who has already received a transplant, has virtually become Thomas Edison. Trent not only has Edison's DNA, he has Edison's century-old memories and speech patterns. Cat and her friends seize an opportunity to escape, relying on Trent's technical expertise and "inherited" memory to evade the bad guys. As she outlines in her author's note, Messner follows good science in her descriptions of head-injury treatment; she also gives teachers opportunities to explore the differences between hereditary and acquired characteristics in her more fictional genetic "science." Her characterizations are solid and age-appropriate; Trent, as young Thomas Edison still avidly working on alternating currents, supplies some laughs. With plenty of thrills, friendship, some humor, intrigue and an easy good-guys/bad-guys escape plot, young readers will find lots of fun here. (Science fiction. 10-14)

Kirkus Reviews