Margaret Peterson Haddix- Found 3.25 Stars
Jonah is thirteen-years-old and was
adopted, but knows nothing about the circumstances of his adoption. Now that he
and his new friend Chip have both received foreboding messages within a few
days of each other, Chip has discovered that he too was adopted. Together with
Jonah’s sister Katherine, they now must dig into the both of their adoptions to
figure out why they would be receiving these odd messages. Their investigating
will lead them to many other adopted kids and change everything about their
life and the way they view it.
This book wasn’t a gripping novel for me,
although kids likely would enjoy it. It was just interesting enough to keep me
reading, a good one time read. Perhaps it was the science-fiction/futuristic
angles that were too much for me. The overall plot was pretty good, but too
many kid’s books do what this one did in the end, left it off so that there had
to be another book, but I am not sure how else they would have been able to
leave it. The characters were really well done, she put a lot of effort into their
creation and it shows. It had some good twists in it that were surprising and
kind of odd, but also fairly obvious. Normally obvious twists take away from
the book, but I did not find that with this novel. Overall I do think that kids
would enjoy reading this book/series.
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Tony Peters
Kids on a Case: The Case of the Ten Grand
Kidnapping
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