Margaret Peterson Haddix...

I can't wait for the third book in her series to come out this month.  I read most of her books this summer.  This is a review of her newest book...Sabotaged

After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea, face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help Andrea fix history, but when their journey goes dangerously awry, they realize that they may be in over their head. They've landed in the wrong time period. Andrea doesn't seem that interested in leaving the past. And even worse, it appears that someone has deliberately sabotaged their mission...


Here is some of a Q & A with her....
Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. Always so much to think about


Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
A. Peace


Q. What’s your greatest fear?
A. Awful things happening to people I love


Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
A. Depending on my mood, either 1. Home or 2. Someplace I've never been before

Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
A. Suddenly, just, even, and then


Q. What do you regret most?
A. 1. Hurting other people; 2. Making a fool of myself; 3. Doing things that both hurt others and make me look like a fool


Q. What is your greatest achievement?
A. I hope it's something that I haven't done yet


Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
A. Thinking that I'm too busy to do things that are actually more important than the things I am busy with


Q. What’s your best quality?
A. Empathy


Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
A. Isn't that kind of the point of fiction? Getting to imagine being lots of other people?


Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
A. Reading


Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
A. Writing! Lucky me!

Q. Who are your favorite authors?
A. Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Mary Doria Russell, Neal Shusterman, Cynthia Voigt, Edward Bloor, E.L. Konigsburg and many more


Q. What are your 5 favorite books of all time?
A. I don't think I could possibly narrow my choices down to 5 favorite books, but if I remember right, these were probably my 5 favorite books when I was 12: She, the Adventuress, by Dorothy Crayder From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott