Publisher Description

Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and another boy, Alex, have no preparation before they are sent back to 1483 at the Tower of London, with the promise that they can return to the present if they can repair history. They quickly discover that Chip and Alex's true identities are the 13-year-old King Edward V and his 10-year-old brother, Richard, Duke of York. But before Chip can enjoy being the king of England, they discover that they are virtually prisoners--and that their uncle wants them dead. How can the kids repair time and return home when according to history, Chip and Alex were murdered?

Author Biography

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.

Excerpt from Book

Sent ONE It was a rough landing. Lights streamed past Jonah''s face, an unbearable glare. Some force that had to be more than just gravity tugged on him, threatening to pull him apart from Chip and Katherine, from the Elucidator and the Taser, from his own self. The image that burned in his mind was of his body being split into individual cells, individual atoms. And then that image broke apart too, and he couldn''t think, couldn''t see, couldn''t hear. He could only feel time passing through him, time flipping back on itself, time pressing down, down, down. . . . Then it was over. He lay in darkness, gasping for air. Dimly he heard JB''s voice say, "Welcome to the fifteenth century. Good luck." But he couldn''t quite make sense of the words. It was like hearing something underwater, sounds from another world. "You''re hiding, aren''t you? Staying out of sight?" It was JB''s voice again, hissing and anxious. "You have to stay out of sight." "Darkness," Jonah mumbled. "Safe." His tongue felt too thick to speak with. Or maybe it was too thin--too insubstantial. He didn''t feel quite real. There was movement beside him. Someone sitting up. "You''d like to keep us in the dark, wouldn''t you?" Chip accused. "You didn''t tell us anything we''d need to know to survive in the fifteenth century." Whoa. How could Chip manage to sound so normal at a time like this? And so angry (which was pretty much normal for Chip)? Wasn''t his head spinning too? Wasn''t his vision slipping in and out of focus? Didn''t he feel like he might throw up if he had to do anything more strenuous than breathe? "You didn''t even tell us who we''re supposed to be," Chip continued. Distantly, as if he was trying to retrieve a memory from centuries ago--no, he corrected himself, centuries ahead--Jonah puzzled over what Chip meant. Who we''re supposed to be . . . Oh, yeah. The whole reason they were in this mess was that a group of people from the future had gone through history plucking out endangered children. This would have been very noble and kind, except that they began carrying off famous kids, kids whose disappearances were noticed. JB, who seemed to oppose any tampering with history, was convinced that all of time was on the verge of collapse because of these rescues. He and his cohorts had managed to freeze the effects of the rescues--the "ripples," as they called them--and gone after the missing children. There''d been a battle, and thirty-six kids from history had crash-landed at the very end of the twentieth century. Chip was one of those kids. So was Jonah. For the past thirteen years, though, they''d known nothing about their true identities. They''d been adopted by ordinary American families and grown up in ordinary American suburbs, playing video games and soccer, trading Pok

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