Sunday, November 7, 2010

Sabotaged by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Sabotaged by Margaret Peterson Haddix is the third book in The Missing Series. In this story, JB has asked Jonah and Katherine to accompany Andrea, another one of the kids stolen from history, back to her own time period in order to repair time. Things don't go as easily as they would have hoped when Andrea mysteriously changes their destination. Jonah and Katherine find out that Andrea was visited by a stranger who promised she'd be able to change time and prevent her adoptive parents' death. Instead, the kids wound up in America during the early 1600s! They are all confused about who would want them there and why until they rescue an old man who was washed ashore during a terrible storm. He turned out to be Andrea's biological grandfather and Andrea herself had been born Virginia Dare, the first white girl born in the "New World". In true history's events, the two never meet, but in this new reality, everything is broken and the rules don't seem to hold. Jonah and Katherine are still determined to save Andrea and repair time, they just don't know how. With the help of two other 21st century adoptees who time-smack into Jonah, a dog named Dare, and a stranger named Second, Jonah and Katherine continue their quest to return everything to normal and make it back to the 21st century alive... turns out there are other plans in the works that no one could have suspected!

This book was definitely my least favorite of the three. I was hoping it would be more about the history of Virgina Dare and her time in New York. It was actually more about time traveling and the scientists fighting to change the world's past events than Andrea's story. It ends with a cliff-hanger which makes me think there will be a 4th book coming soon!

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