Margaret Peterson Haddix
21) Among the Barons
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken.
22) Caught
Author
Series
Missing volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
23) Under their skin
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and most important, why their lives are in danger.
24) Among the free
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted and sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts, once good friends, begrudgingly travel to Spain together for a summer vacation where they uncover a secret their families kept hidden from them their entire lives.
26) Revealed
Author
Series
The missing volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015, [2014]
Language
English
Description
After returning the missing children from history to their original time periods, thirteen-year-old Jonah must save time itself when aviator Charles Lindbergh mysteriously appears and kidnaps Jonah's sister.
27) Among the enemy
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In a society that allows families to have only two children, third child Matthias joins the Population Police to infiltrate their system.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
29) Risked
Author
Series
Missing volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014, c2013
Language
English
Description
Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths.
30) Among the brave
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.
31) Full ride
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After her father is convicted of embezzlement, Becca Jones, fourteen, and her mother flee Georgia for small-town Ohio but three years later she learns that his misdeeds may have jeopardized not just her future but also her life.
Author
Series
Mysteries of trash and treasure volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things. After all, they found each other and became best friends-even though their parents are business rivals. They also found hidden boxes of secret letters, which led them to unravel mysteries about kids from the 1970s. But when they started Mystery Solvers Inc., they didn't expect to be asked to find a ghost. Ree recruits them to investigate a series of old, spooky photos left behind in her family's new house....
35) The always war
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa, her childhood friend Gideon, now a traumatized military hero, and Dek, a streetwise orphan, enter enemy territory and discover the shocking truth about a war that began more than seventy-five years earlier.
36) Claim to fame
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.
38) Just Ella
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
Author
Series
Children of exile volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Kiandra Watanaboneset reluctantly takes charge when she, her brothers Enu and Edwy, and some young friends are captured by Enforcers and sent to a prison on the planet Zacadi.