![]() ![]() In the first book, “The Strangers,” the ending is a cliffhanger. Natalie is thirteen and beautiful, and Chess has a huge crush on her. ![]() She’s working with the three kids to get their moms back. Natalie is the daughter of a woman who was also trapped in the alternate world in the first book, and she convinced her father that the Greystone kids should live with them. And there’s Chess, the oldest at 12, who remembers the most about their life when their father was alive, and he is the most emotional. In this second book “The Deceivers,” she’s determined to solve the mystery of their mother’s letter to them, written in code. ![]() Emma is ten, and she’s a genius at solving problems. The main characters are the children from two families, the Greystone children: Finn, the youngest of the family is only eight years old, but he’s brave and thoughtful. In the first book, “ The Strangers,” Haddix creates an alternate world with two families who are thrown into chaos when the worlds collide. You can’t write the ending, but there needs to be some kind of closure, and yet you have to make sure that the readers are involved enough to want to know what’s going to happen next. ![]() It’s tough to write a second book in a series that has more than two books. Margaret Peterson Haddix is truly the queen of series writing. ![]()
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