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• Jonah: Jonah is Katherine's older brother. He is adopted, along with his friend, Chip. Jonah does not know his parents, but he knows he is one of the children that were stolen from the past. He and his sister are racing through time to fix the broken parts and save the other children before it is too late!
• Katherine: Katherine is Jonah's younger sister and is in love with his friend, Chip. She was not adopted but is helping her brother with his missions back into time. She is one tough girl, and is smarter than she sounds or looks!
• JB: The expert time traveler; he sent Jonah and Katherine back to 1483 to save Chip and Alex in Book 2. He is tricked by Second in Book 3.
• Second: Projectionist expert from the future the bad guy in most of the story
• Henry Hudson: A great captain that some times his compassion for the sea and adventure is more than his love for his son, he often appeared to be a grump and crazy.
• Abacuk Prickett: A man aboard Henry Hudson's ship. Abacuk Prickett joined Hudson during his 4th expedition, and is one of the mutineers who sets Hudson adrift. He eventually makes it back to England where he is tried, but not executed. History bases the information on Hudson's 4th and last voyage from Prickett's journal, but there are indications that it may not be true.
• John Hudson: Henry Hudson's son.
• Andrea: The girl that Jonah has a crush on. In Book 3, we learn that Andrea is Virginia Dare, and another lost child of history.
• Wydowse: A navigator who joins the crew after being a mathematician. He is sickly when Jonah and Katherine find him.
• Brendan: A "lost child of history"; in Book 3 we find out he is "One Who Serves Much", as well as an artist.
• John Cabot: An Italian-born English Explorer who claims Newfoundland for England.
• John White: This is a thrilling book that brings you back to time periods in order to save history...

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• “If you only knew how to fix one thing, wasn't that at least a start?”

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• And Jonah still didn’t quite trust himself not to throw his arms around his mother and cry out, “Thank you for having food in the house! Thank you for not making me hunt for it myself! And thank you for not sending me off to be a ship’s boy with a bunch of mean sailors when I was a little kid!”

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• “We’re stranded!” Katherine said. “We’re going to be stuck in 1611 forever!” “No, we’re not,” Jonah said. “We stay here long enough, eventually it will be 1612.”

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• Whoa, Jonah thought. Even in 1611 people think that if they just speak loud enough and slow enough, foreigners will understand them.

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• “Stop daydreaming about Andrea,” she said. “We don’t have time for that.” Sheesh, how did she know?

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• Oh, yeah! Jonah and Katherine have been flitting in and out of various life-threatening situations in history! That’s why they’re acting weird! But she seemed to know that something was going on.

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• ‘Guess what? Four hundred years from now, schoolkids are just going to get you mixed up with Vasco da Gama on tests. The really stupid ones aren’t going to remember your name even when the question is, ‘Who discovered the Hudson River and the Hudson Bay?’” Jonah thought maybe he’d done that once.

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• “When we’ve opened up even the past for revision, what certainty can anyone offer about the future?”

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• “Yeah—Henry Hudson’s got the biggest ego on the planet,” Katherine said.

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• Jonah wished he could see how she’d react if he said, You know, Katherine and I were roaming around a remote area of oldtimey Canada without a cell phone or a working Elucidator, and we had to deal with a crazy guy who didn’t care who lived or died—and we did just fine. Do you really think it’s going to be that dangerous for me, just walking over to the park?

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• Hey, sorry about kidnapping your niece and taking her four hundred years back in time. Sorry she got stuck there for five years. Sorry we had to count on a thirteen-year-old to rescue her. Oh, wait—you don’t know about any of that, do you?

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• Northwest Passage: supposed river that runs through North America to China
• Canada: A country in North America above the United States.

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Preceded by Sabotaged, and followed by Caught.

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1. Margaret Peterson Haddix (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PZ7.H1164 To 2011
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• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror › Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
• Books › Children's Books › History & Historical Fiction › Fiction
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Action & Adventure
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