The Missing (novel series)

The Missing

The covers of the first four books in the series.
Found, Sent, Sabotaged, Torn, Caught, Risked, Revealed, Redeemed
Author Margaret Peterson Haddix
Country United States
Language English
Genre Young adult, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction
Publisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers[1]
Published 2008-2015
Media type Print
No. of books 8
Website Official website

The Missing is a series of fictional young-adult novels written by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It tells the story of famous children from history stolen by futuristic time travelers from their place in time and accidentally sent to the 21st century as babies. They are then adopted by families in the 21st century. Because Jonah is one of the stolen children, he, along with his non-adopted sister Katherine, must help return the missing kids to their rightful places in history and fix time before it is destroyed. The first book in the series, Found, was published on April 22, 2008. The series continued with book titles Sent, Sabotaged, Torn, Caught, Risked (originally intended to be titled Kept), and Revealed. The eighth and final book, Redeemed, was released on September 8, 2015. There are also two ebook short stories, Sought (which takes place before Risked) and Rescued (which takes place between Risked and Revealed).[2] Haddix originally intended the series to consist of only seven books, however, she stated that she had trouble closing out the series in seven books; leading to her decision to write Redeemed.[3]

Books

Found

A thirteen-year-old boy named Jonah had always known that he was adopted and had never thought much of it until he began receiving strange letters sent to his house.[4][5] When Jonah's friend Chip, who received the same letters, learns that he is also adopted, Jonah, Chip and Jonah's sister, Katherine, come to realize that Jonah and Chip are important missing children from history who were transported to the 21st century by baby smuggling time travelers, whose names are Gary and Hodge. Later, they are unknowingly lured into a cave, known as a time hollow, with all but one of the other 36 missing children in an attempt by the smugglers to take them to the future. After they have defeated the smugglers, another time traveler from the future known to them as JB (Janitor Boy) decides to send Chip and another boy, Alex, back to the 1480s, where they were originally taken from. While trying to stop him, Jonah and Katherine are accidentally taken along for the trip as well, leaving it up to them to save their friends and return to the 21st century. This sets the plot and the title for the following book in the series, "Sent".

Found was released on April 22, 2008.[6]

Sent

In this book, Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Chip's real brother, Alex, have one warning of disaster before they are sent back to 15th century to the Tower of London, with the promise that they can return to their home in the 21st century if they can repair history. They quickly discover that Chip and Alex's true identities are Edward V (king of England) and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. But before Chip can enjoy being the King of England, they discover that they are virtually prisoners—and that the boys' uncle, King Richard III, wants them dead. Jonah and Katherine must repair time and save Chip and Alex from their certain deaths before it is even possible that they can return home.[7][8]

Sent was released on August 25, 2009.[9]

Sabotaged

In this third volume of the series, Jonah and Katherine return Andrea, identified as the missing child Virginia Dare, to 1600, her correct time period from where she was kidnapped. During their time journey, the device used for their time travel,called an Elucidator, is lost, causing the children arrive not certain as to where or when they are. They eventually piece together clues to find that their attempt to fix time by sending Andrea back is being thwarted by a man who calls himself Second. Second is a projectionist that possibly messed up time forever.[10][11] Along the way they save the life of Andrea's 16th-century grandfather, John White and meet two of the other missing children, Brendan and Antonio, who were mysteriously sent back to their original time by Second. While on Croatoan Island, Andrea changes time itself and is reunited with her grandfather. Second appears and Jonah and Katherine are saved by JB, only to be hurled into another time.

Sabotaged was released on August 24, 2010.[12]

Torn

Jonah and Katherine land on the decks of Henry Hudson's ship, called the Discovery, moments before a mutiny in the early 17th century.[13] JB reveals that John Hudson, one of the kids stolen from history and Henry Hudson's son, is missing completely, and Jonah will have to play his part. Jonah and Katherine must survive being on the 17th century boat,[14] with unlikely help from two of the sailors. When they find out that Second has disguised himself as Hudson's first mate and has murdered one of them, Jonah and Katherine escape the boat after a docking and manage to get into the Damaged Time of 1605. They save their friends Brendan, Antonio, Andrea and John White when Jonah rescues everyone from the fire of 1605. It then turns out that Second sent John Hudson to 1605. John Hudson, called Dalton Sullivan in the 21st century, was already in 1605, living in England. JB then concludes that Second unraveled time from 1605 to 1611, made his own new, alternate universe and is sealing it off completely from others. JB then sends everyone to the 21st century, where they can live in peace, for a while.

Torn was released on August 23, 2011.[15]

Caught

Jonah and Katherine are in school when time freezes. They are subsequently transported to Albert Einstein's time, where they must help to save his illegitimate daughter Lieserl,[16] who is known as Emily in the 21st century, and keep Einstein from discovering time travel instead of the theory of relativity, which would ruin history. Jonah and Katherine follow Mileva, Einstein's wife, in order to put Emily in her correct time, 1903. When they get to Mileva's parents' house, they discover that Lieserl is just a baby and close to death from scarlet fever. However, during Jonah and Katherine's followings, Mileva discovers them,[17] steals their Elucidator, and communicates with them, causing a huge disturbance in time. They are all sent, along with Emily, to a place outside of time, called a time hollow. Mileva freezes everyone there using the Elucidator and then watches her whole life, Emily's life, and learns English to understand how time travel worked. Then she unfreezes only Jonah and allows him to come with her and save time. Jonah lets Mileva keep the Elucidator when she returns to her time, which allows her to send her demented son, Tete Einstein, to the future as a baby, where he grows up to become JB.

Caught was released on September 3, 2012.[18]

Risked

Right after Jonah, Katherine and Chip meet a girl named Daniella McCarthy, the four are kidnapped by a boy, Gavin, and sent to 1918. It is revealed that Gavin and Daniella are Alexei and Anastasia Romanov, the youngest children of Czar Nicholas II. Everybody except Chip is arrested upon arrival, who rescues Jonah and Katherine and discovers that Yakov Yurovsky intends to kill the Romanovs. Yurovsky successfully lures the imperial family into the cellar and proceeds with the killings. Jonah and Gavin are shot in the ensuing chaos, but JB appears and rescues Jonah and Katherine. Katherine later returns to save the others, but the four older Romanovs are killed. JB sends Jonah and Gavin to the future, where they are forced to stay while they recover from their injuries.

The book was released on September 4, 2013.[19][20]

Revealed

Charles Lindbergh appears in the Skidmores' home, grabs Katherine, and vanishes. Jonah finds out that Chip, Andrea, and all the other children from the plane have disappeared as well. Jonah’s parents and all the other adults in his town have "un-aged" into teenagers. Jonah is the only 'normal' person left, and must save everyone with the help of un-aged JB and Angela.[21][22] He convinces Lindbergh to return Katherine as well as to betray Gary and Hodge who are subsequently unaged into babies. Staying true to its name, Jonah's real identity as a missing child is finally "revealed" in this book; an orphanage baby from 1932 who was kidnapped to be passed off as Charles Lindbergh's son. Jonah also rescues his twin brother, Jordan, from Gary and Hodge in the process, and later learns that doing so would result in them living together in the twenty-first century.

Revealed was released on September 2, 2014.[23]

Redeemed

Jordan Skidmore learns that he was an orphanage child from 1932 and that he now has a new twin brother named Jonah. Wanting to help his strangely unaged parents, he sends his entire family to the future.[24][25] Second traps his parents in a time hollow and Jordan, Jonah, and Katherine are forced to save a young version of Second, Kevin, from an accident in the past. The adult Second, frustrated with Jonah and Katherine, later traps them in a separate time hollow, leaving Jordan to save time by himself. In a time hollow, he watches the entire lives of his siblings and learns about their previous trips through time. After befriending Kevin, Jordan convinces him to help reage the adults. In the process of doing so, Kevin himself is unaged into a baby. The two are captured by Curtis Rathbone, the CEO of the company that employed Gary and Hodge, who then reveals that he caused all the unaging. Jordan and Kevin are then joined by Jonah, Katherine, Chip, JB, Angela and his parents. Everybody is frozen by Mr Rathbone but he is killed by Kevin's Elucidator. In the epilogue, Kevin is adopted by the Skidmores. JB reveals to them that the time agency is sealing off time travel to prevent any more near-disasters, but secretly gives them an emergency Elucidator.

Redeemed, was released on September 8, 2015.[26]

Characters

Protagonists (in order of appearance)

Antagonists (in order of appearance)

References

  1. Found
  2. "Books". Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  3. http://haddixbooks.com/book/redeemed/?pg=faq
  4. http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Found/Margaret-Peterson-Haddix/The-Missing/9781416954217
  5. "Found". Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  6. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1675216.Found
  7. http://haddixbooks.com/book/sent/
  8. http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Sent/Margaret-Peterson-Haddix/The-Missing/9781416954231
  9. Sent on Goodreads
  10. http://haddixbooks.com/book/sabotaged/
  11. Haddix, Margaret Peterson (2010). Sabotaged. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. p. 361.
  12. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7130745-sabotaged
  13. http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Torn/Margaret-Peterson-Haddix/The-Missing/9781416989813
  14. http://haddixbooks.com/book/torn/
  15. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9758788-torn
  16. http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Caught/Margaret-Peterson-Haddix/The-Missing/9781416989837
  17. http://haddixbooks.com/book/caught/
  18. Caught on Goodreads
  19. "Risked". Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  20. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15944410-risked?from_search=true&search_version=service
  21. "Revealed". Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  22. http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Revealed/Margaret-Peterson-Haddix/The-Missing/9781416989875
  23. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18198687-revealed?from_search=true&search_version=service
  24. "Redeemed". Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  25. http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Redeemed/Margaret-Peterson-Haddix/The-Missing/9781442497566
  26. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571245-redeemed?from_search=true&search_version=service

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