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The missing. 7, Revealed

✍ Scribed by Haddix, Margaret Peterson;Lindbergh, Charles Augustus

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 169 KB
Series: Missing 7
Edition: 1st ed
Category: Fiction
City: New York
ISBN: 1416989870

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✦ Synopsis

After a mysterious appearance by Charles Lindbergh, it’s up to Jonah to save his town in the seventh book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, which Kirkus Reviews calls “plenty of fun and great for history teachers as well.”

It’s morning as usual at the Skidmore household—until Charles Lindbergh, the famous historical pilot, appears in their living room. Jonah can hardly believe his eyes—and then Lindbergh grabs Katherine and vanishes again. And that’s not all. Chip, Andrea, and all the other children from the plane have disappeared too. And worst of all, Jonah’s parents and all the other adults in his town have de-aged into children.

Jonah is the only one left, and the only one who can save everyone. With the help of de-aged JB and Angela, he has to collect the clues. And they lead directly back to Gary and Hodge, and a terrible plot that could mean the end of everything Jonah has ever loved. Can Jonah put the pieces together before time runs out?

From School Library Journal

Gr 9 Up—Jonah must save his town when famous pilot Charles Lindbergh captures his friends and turns all the parents into children. Haddix offers enough recap so that new readers can jump into this as a stand-alone novel, but most will want to start at the beginning. A must-buy where this series continues to draw in fans.

Review

In book seven of the Missing series, Jonah battles time bandits Gary and Hodge, who are blackmailing
Charles Lindbergh into transporting babies stolen from the past into the future. The important people in
Jonah’s life (including sister Katherine) have been aged back to infants, time paradoxes and traps abound,
and Jonah must discover the one path to prevent time from erasing everyone he loves. Plenty of wellintegrated
backstory lets this lively series continuation stand on its own. Repetitive character introspection
sometimes slows the plot, and the time twists can be befuddling, but this makes for an entertaining and
informative way to connect young readers to history. (July 2014 Booklist)

This apparently final installment of the Missing series plunges Jonah into a quandary: The villains Gary and Hodge have begun their master plan to steal all the children from history and sell them in the future, with the help of Charles Lindbergh. The action kicks off when Charles Lindbergh snatches Jonah's sister, Katherine, from their living room. Time agent JB takes Jonah and family friend Angela to a "time hollow" where they can monitor events, but soon they find themselves clinging to the outside of Lindbergh's plane as he flies across the Atlantic in 1927. They escape and begin an investigation of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping in 1932, eventually learning how Gary and Hodge have drawn the aviator into their scheme. The safety of time itself depends on Lindbergh's and Jonah's choices—and JB, Angela and Jonah's parents have all been "un-aged" into 13-year-olds. Jonah finds himself dragged to and fro in time, always fearful that he will destroy its flow. Haddix bogs the narrative down with explanations of the workings of time travel, and the story lacks the usual repartee between Jonah and Katherine, un-aged back to infancy. Still, if readers can unravel the mechanisms of time well enough to understand the ins and outs of the story, they finally will learn who Jonah really is. This long and intricate conclusion should satisfy fans, but it's not likely to win new ones. (Kirkus Reviews August 1, 2014)

“Plenty of well-integrated backstory lets this lively series continuation stand on its own. …An entertaining and informative way to connect young readers to history.” (Booklist)

"Haddix offers enough recap so that new readers can jump into this as a standalone novel, but most will want to start at the beginning. A must-buy where this series continues to draw in fans." (School Library Journal )