New Releases by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Alexandrea has just moved to Harlem and her mother is pushing her into ballet and she has stage fright.

RThe author of "Escape from Memory" and the Shadow Children series has penned another suspenseful novel guaranteed to keep readers riveted.S--"Booklist."

A sympathetic teacher and her writing assignment help fourth-grader Dexter deal with being the new kid in school after he punches a kid on the first day.

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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.

While ten-year-old Anya faces the difficulties of losing her hair to alopecia, her classmate Keely learns how to stand up for what she knows is right.

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family''s farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix. Luke has never been to school. He''s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend''s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He''s lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family''s farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl''s face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he''s met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows—does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?

Danger continues to loom over Luke now that he''s out of hiding in the second book in bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix''s Shadow Children series. Luke Garner is an illegal third child. All his life has been spent in hiding. Now, for the first time, Luke is living among others. He has assumed a deceased boy''s identity and is attending Hendricks School for Boys, a windowless building with cruel classmates and oblivious teachers. Luke knows he has to blend in, but he lives in constant fear that his behavior will betray him. Then one day Luke discovers a door to the outside. He knows that beyond the walls of Hendricks lie the secrets he is desperate to uncover. What he doesn''t know is whom he can trust -- and where the answers to his questions may lead him...

When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 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.

SHADOW CHILDREN Luke has never been to school. He''s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend''s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He''s lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family''s farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl''s face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he''s met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows -- does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?