![]() To start, in an alternate ending to the previous episode, Principal Krupp ends up in prison (“…a lot like being a student at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, except that the prison had better funding”). Not that there aren’t pranks and envelope-pushing quips aplenty. Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. ![]() The plot is internally consistent, too, enhancing both pace and readers’ enjoyment. Haddix concentrates more on the action, suspense and mystery in this book with, thankfully, less emphasis on childish tantrums than in previous installments. She wants to find her grandfather, colony governor John White, who traveled to Roanoke to try to rescue his family in 1590 only to find the colony deserted and the colonists vanished. Andrea, the real Virginia Dare, insists that she doesn’t care if things are going wrong. Worse, a new character, who may not have the safety of the children in mind, takes charge. Suspense builds when Jonah and Katherine realize that time appears to be disturbed, perhaps endangering all of history. ![]() ![]() They lose their communication device, and they don’t know when in time they’ve landed. Immediately, however, the children discover that their mission has been sabotaged. Book three of the Missing series finds heroes 13-year-old Jonah and his sister Katherine traveling through time to rescue Virginia Dare of the Roanoke colony. ![]()
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