Goodness, it's a rare book about time travel that doesn't find me arguing against it being possible. This book takes Jonah and his sister Katherine and two of their friends on a quest into the past, literally, via time travel.It's a bit of a heavy topic for kids. Sent is the second book in the 'Missing' series of juvenile fiction. I'm anxiously awaiting the next one, Haddix. The entertainment value of this novel is 5 stars, but it doesn't leave you with anything to think about and didn't change my life in anyway, so I give it 4 stars. The stock brainiac teen character who explains (probably inaccurately, thank goodness) all of the science to the physics-challenged reader does say that one has to stop looking at time as linear, but the story itself doesn't force you to do that. For those of you who enjoy time travel movies until the end, when you shake your head and say, 'Wait, how can the future have happened before the past?' this novel is for you. It all made sense, so therefore it's probably scientifically flawed. This novel is time travel for the feeble minded (at least the feebly science-minded).

It gives me a headache and I see movies like The Terminator as having an inexcusable plot hole, but really it's just me. Never having taken a Physics class, nor having any interest in it at all, I cannot typically handle the concept of time travel, as it requires me to think of time in a non-linear way.

I couldn't WAIT to find out what was going to happen next! I don't usually get THIS enthralled with the young adult novels I read, but this was just darn good. I knew that this entered the '4 star' category when I drove across town to pick up the book from where I left it, after a fitful night of kicking myself for leaving it there.

Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix