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As you may have noticed, I made a link to the Missing Series and Margaret Peterson Haddix in the
cOuNtDoWn FoR bOoKs! page. Because she has her own website, where you're always up to date to her books, such as the new Missing book: SABOTAGED and the other new book, The Girl with 500 Middle Names or something along those lines.
I'll give you the url. Just Shift + click (or just click, whatever you like) the following: http://www.haddixbooks.com/ 
(Don't x it out before you get to the actual site instead of the slideshow of her best series and books)

Sooo... Jonah and Katherine are where they don't belong. But Chip and Alex, who are the two main characters, do. Because they're the missing princes of... of... England and France... Chip is Edward the Fifth (Edward V), King of England, and Alex is Richard, Duke of York.
What fancy names. 

       What really scares me is that how they know their past when they weren't even in it. Well, technically, they were. They were 1 years old twice, they were 2 years old twice, 3 years old two times, and so on, until the minute they died, where Hodge and Gary swept them out of their time and took them to "the future." Which is true, but not the future that Hodge and Gary wanted.
       Which leads to what actually happens. They have to go back in time so they don't mess up history altogether. Because if things don't go the way they actually did the first time without disturbance, then the whole world may collapse. Time may be gone altogether. You see, time is a very mysterious element. When you think of time, as in a clock. Okay, it's 12:37. Time. Simple. You're not thinking deep enough. Because Time is WAY WAY more complicated than that. For example, can two people meet in time, as in from different times? Like, say Jonah was there when Gary and Hodge were about to steal Chip and Alex. But Jonah is there years later than Gary and Hodge, where they're the thirteen-years-ago Gary and Hodge who stole Chip and Alex. But Jonah is there thirteen-years-after to save Chip and Alex. Can they meet? I mean, in the book, that didn't happen, but I'm just saying, for example. And millions of others. Like a kid from 3002 can met with another kid from 2078 where they both traveled in time to the same place and same time.Can they meet? Or is there some mysterious barrier which keeps them from meeting?

        Anyway, apart from terribly confusing time theories, the story. 
This is the book that made me borrow the first book, which leads back to finishing that book which leads to here. This book again. Really interesting, because the adventure starts here. The first book was sort of the introduction. Of the whole plot. Get it? Each book is like a chapter, and the whole series is like the whole book. So the first book was like the prologue, where they explain how it leads to...
       Chip and Alex gets swept to their original time period, in the 1500's, and Jonah and Katherine grabs on along for the ride. Jonah, at the last minute, before they disappear into nothingness and back in time. The spooky thing is how they become their old selves, instantly, and the minute they go into their tracers, or their original figures of what they originally did without any time disturbances, they know everything. Their past. Chip instantly remembers how he, for the past month or year or whenever, had been training to become King, in which he already was. His father was dead. Alex, instantly, knew his mother, and was praying for her. They both, instantly, began talking in Old-English, which the Elucidator immediately translated. 
        It is truly amazing how Margaret Peterson Haddix comes up with such brilliant ideas. Where she comes up with them, and manipulates them to become part of yet another astounding story. (Wow, I really sound like the book-review peoples. How wierd, a bunch of fancy words add up to some professional-sounding report)
     It was cool. I'd wanted Chip and Alex to go back to themselves. It gave some sense of... nobility, and respect, as if we'd have to treat them like kings and queens (which they did) but I liked when they were out, back to the twentieth century selves (notice I didn't not say their real selves), where they figured out things. OH I can't explain it! But it's like watching a movie, how Chip and Alex are back to their original people. Edward the Fifth and Richard something... Maybe there he isn't Richard the third or any of that sort. Maybe he's just Richard. Maybe. phew, this is taking a lot of energy... What I'm trying to say is, I like it when he's in the tracer and when he's not. For reasons. No. Not like. It doesn't fit it. It seems right when he's in.. the tracer. Phew, too hard to explain.. taking too much.. energy.. from brain... can't.. explain.... When he's in the tracer, he's ... ARRRGHHHHH!!!!!! Read it yourself. You'll know. Please just read it yourself. And if you already did, then... you'll know what I mean.

      Moving on... It's really funny. The best (funny best, not general best, as in whole-book-best, just best of the funny stuff) part of the book is when Alex and Chip and Jonah and Katherine are sneaking their way out of the castle after (accidentally) revealing themselves to be angels sent from God, saying that he has committed great sin. Well, now that I think of it, I think the King Richard the third or someone, Chip/Edward's uncle, he's not THAT bad. I mean, he offered his crown if he had to! Maybe he wasn't all that bad. Maybe just to be king. Or maybe someone else wanted him dead.
        Same feelings as Katherine. Feel bad for him. But I thought, speaking of the "evil" Richard, when he was forgiving everything after meeting the "angels" (Jonah and Katherine). I wondered, was that man, who was (supposed to be but but ended up being) saved from being executed, was he supposed to die, in the first version? Maybe not. probably not. Because then Jonah and Katherine's whole plan will be ruined.


       I think it's funny how Katherine got Chip to get out of his tracer in the end how she says she likes Chip and all that. And he's like, "you think I'm hot?" and stuff... It's funny. I think I literally laughed out loud. loled. Luckily they found that man who was also from the future or whatnot. Which let them get back to original time and,,,,, drumroll please... JONAH AND KATHERINE SAVE THE DAY!! or save Chip and Alex, but same thing.
YAY.
You'll love the book. i can almost guarantee it. Haddix is a master at writing, let me tell you. I've fallen under her spell more than once. And you will, too.