Torn-missing 4
Authors: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Tags: #Historical, #Juvenile Fiction, #Action & Adventure, #Fantasy & Magic, #General
TORN
A
LSO BY
M
ARGARET
P
ETERSON
H
ADDIX
T
HE
M
ISSING SERIES
Found
Sent
Sabotaged
T
HE
S
HADOW
C
HILDREN SERIES
Among the Hidden
Among the Impostors
Among the Betrayed
Among the Barons
Among the Brave
Among the Enemy
Among the Free
The Girl with 500 Middle Names
Because of Anya
Say What?
Dexter the Tough
Running Out of Time
Claim to Fame
Palace of Mirrors
Uprising
Double Identity
The House on the Gulf
Escape from Memory
Takeoffs and Landings
Turnabout
Just Ella
Leaving Fishers
Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
Torn / Margaret Peterson Haddix.—1st ed.
p. cm. — (The missing ; bk. 4)
Summary: Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the
Discovery
is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine’s knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy’s life. Author’s note includes facts about Henry Hudson’s explorations.
ISBN 978-1-4169-8980-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4424-2645-0 (eBook)
[1. Time travel—Fiction. 2. Hudson, Henry, d. 1611—Fiction. 3. Northwest Passage—Fiction. 4. Voyages and travels—Fiction. 5. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H1164To 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2010019645
For Tracey
“We didn’t know what we were doing,” a voice whispered near Jonah’s ear.
Jonah struggled to pay attention. He and his younger sister, Katherine, had just traveled through time, from one foreign era to another. He was becoming an experienced time traveler—a thirteen-year-old expert, you might even say. So he’d learned that when he first landed in a new place and time, he just had to expect his brain to be a little fuzzy.
And his eyes.
And his ears.
And … Really, for all Jonah could tell, he and Katherine might be seconds away from being burned at the stake or tortured on a rack or trampled by stampeding horses fleeing a war. And he wouldn’t be able to see
or hear or notice any of those things until it was too late.
Anything was possible now.
No, no,
Jonah told himself.
It’s
history.
Everyone knows how it’s supposed to go. JB wouldn’t have sent us here if we were going to be in danger. Not right away, at least.
JB was the true time-travel expert. It had taken a while, but Jonah trusted JB. The problem was, Jonah didn’t have a very high opinion of the past. Twice now he and Katherine had gone back in time with other kids. They’d been sent to fix history and save endangered children. Each time, their mission had gotten a little complicated … and endangered
them.