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Found By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Reviewed by: Madalynn Armstrong

__Found__, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, is a story about a mysterious plane that shows up all of a sudden at the airport. There is no pilot, and all the lights are turned off. But when a lady named Angela, who was working at the airport at the time, goes to see if there is anyone in the plane. When she gets into the plane she looks down the aisle and in each of the 36 seats contained a baby.

Jonah, an adopted boy who is living with his adoptive parents and his bratty sister Katherine, and his friend Chip, (who is also adopted) both get mysterious letters in the mail. The first one says " You are one of the missing", Jonah and Chip are very confused about the letter and they dont know what it means, or who its from. Chip tries to find out more about his life before he was adopted, for he had just found out his parents are accualy his adoptive parents. A little while later they both get another letter, this one says "Beware they're coming back to get you." Jonah and Chip get really scared after this letter and they dont know who is coming after them. Jonah's mom sets up a meeting and jonah sees a document that the man is trying to hide. Jonah distracts him and Katherine takes pictures of the documents. When at home they look at the pictures and they find a bunch of names on them, there is witnesses, and there is a list of survivors. Jonah and Chip are on the list of survivors. They start to call the other people on the list of survivors, and they find out that they are all adopted and that they are recieving the same letters.

They call Angela, who had been working at the airport when it had happened and she sets up a meeting for Jonah, Chip, and Katherine at the library. When at the library Angela tells them that Jonah and Chip were two of the babies found on the plane, right after she says that two men come in and a fight breaks out, Jonah, Chip, Katherine, and Angela escape through the window, but then Jonah comes back in telling everyone there is fighting in the meeting room, when the libraian runs down to check there is nobody there, and the room looks like it was never touched.

Jonah's parents send Jonah and Chip to a place where a bunch of adopted kids do activities together. Katherine decides to come even though she is not adopted. When inside they look around on everybodys name tags for some of the people on the surviviors list. They find a couple of people but the dont have time to talk to them because they get split into groups, Jonah, Chip and all of the kids on the survivors list are in the same group, and Katherine is too because she lied about who she is. Jonah, Chip, and Katherine get suspicious when they bring all of them to a cave and tell them to touch the wall, they think its a hand scanner. When in the cave they close a big door, a man named Mr.Hodge tells everyone that they were on a time machine and by mistake they took them to the wrong time. They then take them to the 15th century where they have to live the rest of their life.

I really like reading __Found__, it was full of suspense, mystery, and lots of science-fiction. It was a real page turner and I couldnt put the book down! Out of 5 stars I would rate this book a 4. It was a great read and I recomend it to everyone.