Jonah and Katherine are believable, likeable and funny. Although this book is one in a series of six, I didn’t feel that the author scrimped on the richness of the story as I have felt when reading some other books from a series.īrother/sister pair Jonah and Katherine are the main characters in this book, with Chip and Alex playing smaller roles. The plot climaxes in a battle scene that the author brings to life in full color.

Love it when a time travel story writer takes the time to do that. I can’t be sure, but judging from the fascinating descriptions in the book, and the Author’s Note, it appears Haddix well researched the time period. I loved all the historical details in Sent, and 1483 England is not even a setting that intrigues me. This seems to be a series into which you can jump at any point. I was confused at times by the plot of Sent, but I don’t think it was from lack of background information. Sent is the second in the Missing Series of five books with brilliant punchy titles: Found (’09), Sent (’10), Sabotaged (’11), Torn (’12), and Caught (’13). How can they fix history if it means that Chip and Alex will die? Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of Found, the bestselling Shadow Children series, Uprising, Running Out of Time, and many more. But things get complicated when the four discover that according to the records, the princes were murdered. Now Chip and Alex have to reclaim their true identities-as the king and prince of England. JB promises that if they can fix history, they can all return to their present-day lives.

Jonah and Chip have barely adjusted to the discovery that they are actually the missing children of history when a time purist named JB sends them, along with Katherine and Alex, hurtling back in time to 1483. Namely, the most richly imagined description of ghosts I’ve ever read. Middle grade novel Sent: The Missing: Book 2, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, (2009, 308 pages) offers something fresh. So far, I’ve reviewed 73 time travel tales on this blog.

Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix