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Informationen zum Autor Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of many critically and popularly acclaimed YA and middle grade novels, including the Children of Exile series, The Missing series, the Under Their Skin series, and the Shadow Children series. A graduate of Miami University (of Ohio), she worked for several years as a reporter for The Indianapolis News. She also taught at the Danville (Illinois) Area Community College. She lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio. Visit her at HaddixBooks.com. Klappentext When Jonah and Katherine find themselves on a mission to return Alexei and Anastasia Romanov to history and then save them from the Russian Revolution, they are at a loss. Because in their own time, the bones of Alexei and Anastasia have been positively identified through DNA testing. Risked ONE Jonah Skidmore took a deep breath as he peered at the, computer screen in front of him. He’d recently survived time travel, a war zone, betrayal, deception, mutiny, and the near destruction of time itself. So surely he was brave enough to call up a list of names on a computer. Wasn’t he? He kept his finger poised over the computer mouse. I’ll be brave enough in a minute, he told himself. Or . . . two. “What’s wrong?” his sister, Katherine, said from behind him. “Did Google lock up or something? Hit that link again.” Patience wasn’t one of her virtues. Before Jonah had a chance to reply, she shoved her hand over his, pressing his finger down on the mouse. “There,” Katherine said. “Just what we need. Famous missing children in history. Let’s see . . .” There was a good chance that Jonah’s name might be on the list coming up on the computer screen before them. Not his real name—not Jonah Skidmore. But his original name. The name he’d been born with. To keep from actually looking at the screen now, Jonah whirled in his seat to glare at Katherine. “Keep your voice down!” he commanded. “Do you want Mom or Dad to hear?” Unfortunately for Jonah, his parents were the kind who believed all those warnings about monitoring kids’ computer use. So the Skidmore family computer was right smack in the middle of the kitchen. And Mom and Dad were just around the corner and down the hall, where they were hanging Jonah’s and Katherine’s newest school pictures along the staircase. Mom and Dad had no clue that Jonah and Katherine had traveled through time again and again and again, their lives in danger in one century after another. But even without the complications of time travel and historical danger and intrigue, Jonah wouldn’t have wanted his parents to know how desperate he was to find out his preadoption identity. Not that I exactly want to know it, he told himself. I just . . . need to. “Mom and Dad wouldn’t mind us talking about history,” Katherine said, barely bothering to lower her voice. Then she leaned in closer and dropped her voice to a total whisper: “Do you think you might be the Russian kid?” She pointed to a name on the screen. Jonah grimaced so fiercely he could barely see. What if I’m wrong about everything? he wondered. What if there’s some chance my other identity will never actually matter? Can’t I go on ignoring it and pretending it doesn’t exist? He knew the answer to that question: No. He couldn’t. He was only thirteen—and Katherine was not quite twelve—but in the last few months they’d learned that the past had a way of coming back and grabbing you. Sometimes literally. That is not the right way to think about time travel, Jonah told himself. Remember, you have a new attitude now. He forced himself to open his eyes wide enough to read the words on the screen be...
