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From master of suspense author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes another page-turning stand-alone adventure perfect for fans of Cog and Bad Magic. No matter what anyone tells you, I’m real. That’s what the note says that Max finds under his keyboard. He knows that his best friend, Josie, wrote...

Luke Garner, an illegal third child, spent his first 12 years in hiding. For the past four months, Luke has lived among others, using the identity of Lee Grant, at the Hendricks School for Boys. But just as things are finally starting to go right, Lee's little brother, Smits, arrives at the school, and Luke finds himself caught in a tangle of lies that gets more complex with every passing day. Can Luke trust Smits to keep his secret? And can he trust Smits' menacing bodyguard, Oscar?

Critically acclaimed author Margaret Peterson Haddix continues her best-selling Missing series with Sent. Just as best friends Chip and Jonah discover they're actually children kidnapped from history, they get sent back to their proper time period. Now in the 15th century, Jonah realizes he's Edward V, the king of England, and Chip is his younger brother Richard, the Duke of York. Both boys know they need to find a way home fast, because they know their history - Edward and Richard were murdered.

Matthias, an illegal third child, is caught in the crossfire between rebels and the Population Police. When he unwittingly saves a Population Police officer, Matthias is brought to Population Police headquarters to train as an officer himself. There he meets Nina, another third-born who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, and he has no idea whom he can trust. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy?

Once Amy and Dan Cahill's choice was simple - take a million dollars or the first of 39 Clues that lead to the source of unimaginable power. Now it's clear that the hunt for Clues is bigger than anything that Amy and Dan could ever have imagined.

Jonah and Katherine journey to 1918 with the Romanov children in the sixth tale of the New York Times best-selling The Missing series. It's a paradox: When Jonah and Katherine find themselves on a mission to return Alexei and Anastasia Romanov to history and then save them from the Russian Revolution, they are at a loss. Because, in their own time, the bones of Alexei and Anastasia have been positively identified through DNA testing. What hope do they have of saving Alexis and Anastasia's lives when the twenty-first century has proof of their deaths?

In the dazzling conclusion to the Greystone Secrets series from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix, the Greystones and their doubles, the Gustanos, must team up to save the alternate world—before both worlds are lost. All secrets are revealed in this page-turning...

Disguised as a peasant, Cecilia has been hiding for years from the evil people who killed her parents. Now the time has come to reclaim her title. There's just one problem. Princess Desmia - supposedly Cecilia's decoy - believes a different version of the story.

Nina Idi —una tercera hija en un mundo donde la ley solo permite tener dos— ha sido traicionada por el chico al que amaba y arrestada por la temida Policía de Población. La acusan de haber delatado a otros niños ocultos. Nina está furiosa, desorientada… pero hay algo que sabe con absoluta certeza: es inocente. Ahora, encerrada y sin salida, se enfrenta a la decisión más terrible de su vida. Puede salvarse si consigue que otros tres prisioneros confiesen que también son niños ocultos. O puede negarse a colaborar y morir. Las alternativas son brutales. La elección, en cambio, ...

Tish Bonner’s high-school English class has to keep a dumb journal for their teacher, Mrs. Dunphrey. Doesn’t Mrs. Dunphrey know that kids are too busy coping with real life to be bothered with writing? But when 16-year-old Tish’s life is turned upside down, her journal becomes her only confidante. Relying on her teacher’s promise that she won’t read any entry marked "don’t read this," Tish writes about her loneliness and fear when her mother abandons her and her little brother....

In this high-stakes duology closer from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix, Maisie finds out she's the last moonleaper—unless she can figure out how to change past events to secure the moonleapers' legacy. Maisie was thrilled to become a time-traveling moonleaper and...

New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix delivers the thrilling conclusion to her middle grade Mysteries of Trash and Treasure series as Colin and Nevaeh unravel their most personal mystery yet. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery! Colin has spent all summer...

New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix, the master of cliffhangers, delivers a pulse-pounding mystery perfect for fans of Jacqueline West and Kat Yeh, full of secrets, surprises, and the power of family. One minute they’re there: laughing and having fun at the house next...

Luke nunca ha ido al colegio. Nunca ha celebrado su cumpleaños ni ha dormido en casa de un amigo. De hecho, Luke nunca ha tenido amigos. Luke es uno de los niños ocultos, un tercer hijo prohibido por la Policía de Población. Ha vivido escondido toda su vida, y ahora, con la nueva urbanización que sustituye al bosque junto a la granja de su familia, ni siquiera puede salir al exterior. Un día, Luke ve el rostro de una niña en la ventana de una casa donde sabe que ya viven otros dos niños. Por fin ha conocido a una niña escondida como él. Ella está dispuesta a arriesgarlo todo para...

New York Times bestselling middle-grade thriller author Margaret Peterson Haddix returns to the Mysteries of Trash and Treasure series as Colin and Nevaeh unravel a mystery from the 1930s and explore the emotions associated with death and dying. Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things...

Luke Garner es un tercer hijo ilegal. Toda su vida ha vivido escondido. Ahora, por primera vez, Luke convive con otros adolescentes. Ha asumido la identidad de un chico fallecido y estudia en la Escuela de Hendricks para Chicos, un edificio sin ventanas con compañeros crueles y profesores que no se enteran de nada. Luke sabe que debe pasar desapercibido, pero vive con el miedo constante de que su comportamiento lo delate. Un día, Luke descubre una puerta al exterior. Sabe que más allá de los muros de Hendricks se encuentran los secretos que está desesperado por descubrir. Lo que no ...

As Lindsay Scott basks in the glow of being TV’s most popular child star, she suddenly begins to hear everything that’s being said about her—all the time, and from every place on the globe. After her apparent nervous breakdown, Lindsay disappears from the public eye until—years later—a tabloid claims her father is holding her hostage.

There’s nothing better than taking your timid little cousin Thad to one of those sweet haunted houses the 4-H Club decorates for Halloween. Except, of course, if the house turns out to actually be haunted. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka...

Det troede Greystone-børnene, de vidste. Chess har altid været beskyttende over for sine mindre søskende, Emma har altid elsket matematik, og Finn har altid bare gjort det, Finn er bedst til - at fjolle nuttet rundt og blive forkælet. De har altid været en lykkelig familie, de tre og deres mor. Men alt ændrer sig, da nyheden om tre kidnappede børn kommer frem. For de tre forsvundne børn har samme navne, samme alder og præcis samme fødselsdatoer som Greystone-børnene. Det bizare tilfælde får dem til at spekulere på, hvem de fremmede egentlig er?

Den store Greystone-finale - en pageturner med masser af teamwork, action og dobbeltgængere! Selvom de har fået deres mødre tilbage fra den onde parallelverden, tror de tre Greystone-børn og deres ven Natalie ikke på, at faren for alvor er drevet over. Og da mønter med mystiske koder begynder at dukke op rundt omkring, opdager børnene da også, at mønterne er budbringere fra den anden verden, hvorfra deres venner beder desperat om hjælp.