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Perfect for fans of Margaret Peterson Haddix, "When You Reach
Me," and "Savvy," this charming time-travel story from
husband-and-wife team Marisa de los Santos and David Teague follows
one girl s race to change the past in order to save her father s
future.
Thirteen-year-old Margaret knows her father is innocent, but
that doesn t stop the cruel Judge Biggs from sentencing him to
death. Margaret is determined to save her dad, even if it means
using her family s secret and forbidden ability to time travel.
With the help of her best friend, Charlie, and his grandpa Josh,
Margaret goes back to a time when Judge Biggs was a young boy and
tries to prevent the chain of events that transformed him into a
corrupt, jaded man. But with the forces of history working against
her, will Margaret be able to change the past? Or will she be
pushed back to a present in which her father is still doomed?
Told in alternating voices between Margaret and Josh, this
heartwarming story shows that sometimes the forces of good need a
little extra help to triumph over the forces of evil."
"The Murder Complex" is an action-packed, blood-soaked,
futuristic debut thriller set in a world where the murder rate is
higher than the birthrate.
Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by
her father to fight, to kill, and to survive in any situation,
lives with her family on a houseboat in Florida. The state is
controlled by The Murder Complex, an organization that tracks the
population with precision. The plot starts to thicken when Meadow
meets Zephyr James, who is although he doesn t know it one of the
MC s programmed assassins. Is their meeting a coincidence? Destiny?
Or is it part of a terrifying strategy? And will Zephyr keep Meadow
from discovering the haunting truth about her family?
This is a dark and compelling debut novel that will appeal to
fans of Moira Young s Dust Lands series, "La Femme Nikita," and the
movie "Hanna.""
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