Nachts, wenn alle anderen Jungen schlafen, flüstert er lautlos seinen echten Namen vor sich hin: Luke. Luke Garner und nicht Lee Grant, wie er sich jetzt nennen muss, seit er in die Hendricks-Schule für Jungen geht. Er wurde dort mit falscher Identität eingeschleust, denn dritte Kinder wie Luke darf es in der Gesellschaft, in der er lebt, nicht geben. Die gefälschten Papiere haben ihm zwar das Leben gerettet, doch sicher scheint diese Schule nicht zu sein, vielmehr wirkt sie bedrückend wie ein Gefängnis. §§Orientierungslos irrt Luke tage-, ja wochenlang durch das Wirrwarr von Gängen...

Alle Einfahrten waren leer. Nichts bewegte sich. Doch da bemerkte Luke hinter einem der Fenster etwas aus den Augenwinkeln. Ein Gesicht. Ein Kindergesicht. In einem Haus, in dem es bereits zwei Jungen gab.§Luke ist ein Schattenkind, der dritte Sohn seiner Eltern in einer Gesellschaft, die nur zwei Kinder pro Familie erlaubt. Die Strafen, die auf einen Verstoß gegen das Bevölkerungsgesetz stehen, sind drakonisch: Würde Luke entdeckt, müsste er mit dem Tod rechnen. So ist er gezwungen, sich zu verstecken. Als der Wald um das Haus seiner Familie einer Wohnsiedlung weichen muss, darf er...

A fifteen-year-old uses a class journal to contain a risky secret in this classic from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix, now with a new trim size and a new line look.

Things are so bad, I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't do something...

Everyone has to keep a journal in Mrs. Dunphrey's English class, but the teacher has promised she won't read any entry marked "Do not read this." It's the kind of assignment Tish Bonner, one of the girls with big hair who sit in the back row, usually wouldn't take very seriously. But right now, Tish...

Jonah and Katherine embark on a chilling journey to discover the Northwest Passage in this new installment of the New York Times bestselling series that brings history to life.

Teenager John Hudson vanished from history in 1611: While searching for the Northwest Passage, mutineers cast him and his explorer father adrift in the icy waters of James Bay. When Jonah and Katherine meet John in the past, moments before the mutiny is to occur, they think it will be easy to rescue him from history. But the unexpected appearance of a man who claims to know a secret route to the...

Some things are not best forgotten. A redesigned edition of a science fiction thriller that Booklist calls "an exciting, fantastical adventure story."

When Kira lets her friends hypnotize her at a slumber party, she unearths a memory that just doesn't make sense: She recalls that she and her mother fled to their small town from a country that doesn't exist, speaking a language she can't identify. But after she and her mother are kidnapped by the mysterious Aunt Memory and brought back to Crythe, Kira discovers her recollection was real. Dangerous secrets are locked in...

To be a third child is to be in constant danger. Available for the first time, a boxed set of all seven books in the perennially popular Shadow Children series.

Imagine a world where families are allowed only two children. Illegal third children--shadow children--must live in hiding. If they are discovered, there is only one punishment: Death.
For the first time, all seven books in this beloved and bestselling series are available together in an attractive boxed set. Ideal for newcomers to the series and loyal fans alike, this collection includes Among the Hidden, Among...

Jonah and Katherine come face to face with Albert Einstein in the fifth book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series.

Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when learn they next have to return Albert Einstein's daughter to history, they think it's a joke--they've only heard of his sons. But it turns out that Albert Einstein really did have a daughter, Lieserl, whose 1902 birth and subsequent disappearance was shrouded in mystery. Lieserl was presumed to have died of scarlet fever as an infant. But when Jonah and Katherine return to the...

The Cinderella legend gets a realistic twist in this enchantingly believable adventure from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix that Booklist calls "provocative and entertaining."

Ella dreams of going to the royal ball and marrying Prince Charming, just like every commoner in the kingdom of Fridesia. But after she is chosen to marry the prince--no magic involved--life with the royal family is not the happily ever after that Ella imagined. Pitiless and cold, the royals try to mold her into their vision of a princess. Ella's life becomes a meaningless...

Jonah's new twin must time travel and face off against his siblings' worst enemy in order to save the future--and his family--in the eighth and final book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, which Kirkus Reviews calls "plenty of fun and great for history teachers as well."

After traveling through history multiple times and finding out his original identity, Jonah thought he'd fixed everything. But some of his actions left unexpected consequences. His parents--and many other adults--are still stuck as teenagers. And now Jonah has a new sibling, an identical...

From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes the first book in a "crisp, intriguing, and thought-provoking" (Booklist, starred review) new series about twins who are on a quest to discover the secrets being kept by their new family.

Nick and Eryn's mom is getting remarried, and the twelve-year-old twins are skeptical when she tells them their lives won't change much. Well, yes, they will have to move. And they will have a new stepfather, stepbrother, and stepsister. But Mom tells them not to worry. They won't ever have to meet their stepsiblings....