Anyhow Jonah hadn’t known Chip a few years ago-Chip had moved into the neighborhood just three months ago, in the summertime. Hey, if you’re not, like, related by blood or anything, does that mean you could date her? Chip asked.īecause she’s my sister! Ugh! If Chip had asked him that question a few years ago, Jonah would have added, And she’s got cooties! But Jonah was in seventh grade now, and seventh graders didn’t talk about cooties. This gave Jonah a chance to grab the ball again. But sometimes other people got weird about it.Ĭhip had one eyebrow raised, like he was still processing the information. It didn’t to Jonah-he’d always known he was adopted, and as far as he was concerned, it wasn’t much more of a deal than his liking mint chocolate-chip ice cream while Katherine liked orange sherbet. Then he sneaked a glance at Chip, to see if this made a difference. Really? You or her? Or both? Chip asked, snagging the rebound. But the angle was wrong, and the ball bounced off the hoop. Jonah waited to answer until he’d darted his hand in and stolen the basketball away.Īdopted, he said, shooting the ball toward the backboard.
You don’t look much like your sister, Chip said, bouncing the basketball low against the driveway. With Found, Margaret Peterson Haddix begins a new series that promises to be every bit as suspenseful as her Shadow Children series - which has sold more than 41/2 million copies - and proves her, once again, to be a master of the page-turner.
The kids discover they are caught in a battle between two opposing forces that want very different things for Jonah and Chip's lives.ĭo Jonah and Chip have any choice in the matter? And what should they choose when both alternatives are horrifying? Jonah, Chip, and Jonah's sister, Katherine, are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast smuggling operation, an airplane that appeared out of nowhere - and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. The first one says, "You are one of the missing." The second one says, "Beware! They're coming back to get you." Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal.
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