2021 BLUEBONNET NOMINEE: Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix

  The Strangers” by Margaret Peterson Haddix.

The story is all about adventures, plots, and mysteries. This story involves three children and their mother. The children names are Chess, Emma, and Finn. The story starts out where the mother is in the kitchen on her laptop and the kids come in and find their mother in a daze. The kids hear a voice saying that three kids in Arizona had been kidnapped. The strange thing about it the kids in some way had the same names as Chess, Emma, and Finn. And what made it stranger they all had the same birthdays. Mom tells the kids that she must go out of town to do some work and they will be staying with a lady that they do not even know. As the story goes the kids find that the mother is into something that she might not know how to handle the situation. With the help of the daughter of the lady that is watching them the kids set off to find their mother. They find their mother’s phone with pre-recorded messages to the kids as well as her laptop. They find a letter in code and follow the message that is in the letter. They go back to the children’s home and go down to the basement where they find a secret door that lead them to a tunnel. When they get to the other side, they find a different world of people that looks like the people they know. Except these people were mean looking. They go to find their mother and find the three children that had been kidnapped. The mother is being held captive and the children find her to only not be able to save her, but they do save the three children that had been kidnapped. It is a story that you need to read to really get the meaning of the story. There is a sequel book that follows this one.