Margaret Peterson Haddix, the author of twenty five plus novels including the Shadow Children Series sequence, the Missing series, Turnabout, and The Girl With 500 Names, grew up in the small town of Washington Court House, Ohio as a middle child. Haddix, the daughter of a nurse and farmer, always reading, always writing, knew...
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Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Hunger Games
”I volunteer! “ I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute.” Seventeen year old Katniss Everdeen lives in District Twelve with her younger sister, Primrose, and her widowed mother. What used to be North America, is now the country of Paneam. Each year the Capitol holds the ‘Hunger Games’ , a test of survival. Two tributes...
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Among the Hidden
“Dad thinks-I mean, it`s not safe anymore to have you in the kitchen. You can still eat with us, and talk to us and all, but you`ll be… over here.” The government created a law, stating there are only allowed to be two children per family. Any others must be killed by the population...
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Wake
“She feels the pencil fall from her fingers, feels her body slump to the arm of the couch. Tries to sit up, but with all the whirling colors around her she can`t tell which way is up right. She overcompensates and falls the other way, onto her mother.” 17 year old Janie Hannagan has...
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Thirteen Reasons Why
“You can’t stop the future, you can`t rewind the past, the only way to learn the secret….is to press play.” 16 year old Clay Jensen came home from school one day to find a shoe-box filled with 7 cassette tapes, addressed to him. After starting to listen to the tapes, he soon finds out...
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