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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“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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“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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