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    Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers
    Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers
    Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers
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    Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers

    Written by Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Narrated by Jorjeana Marie

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    New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix takes readers on a thrilling adventure filled with mysteries and plot twists aplenty in this absorbing series about family and friendships. Perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time and The City of Ember!

    What makes you you?

    The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best—acting silly and being adored. They’ve been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.

    But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they’re shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. The other kids share their same first and middle names. They’re the same ages. They even have identical birthdays. Who, exactly, are these strangers?

    Before Chess, Emma, and Finn can question their mom about it, she takes off on a sudden work trip and leaves them in the care of Ms. Morales and her daughter, Natalie. But puzzling clues left behind lead to complex codes, hidden rooms, and a dangerous secret that will turn their world upside down.

    Praise for The Strangers:

    ""A secret-stacked, thrilling series opener about perception, personal memories, and the idiosyncrasies that form individual identities."" (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

    * Winter 2018–2019 Kids' Indie Next List Pick * Indie Bestseller * Time for Kids Book Club: Top 10 Summer Reads *  PW Best Books 2019 *  Texas Bluebonnet Award List 2020-2021 * 2020 LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Book: The Eleanor Cameron Notable Middle Grade Books List *

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKatherine Tegen Books
    Release dateApr 2, 2019
    ISBN9780062885722
    Author

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm in Ohio. As a kid, she knew two girls who had the exact same first, middle, and last names and shared the same birthday—only one year apart—and she always thought that was bizarre. As an adult, Haddix worked as a newspaper reporter and copy editor in Indiana before her first book, Running Out of Time, was published. She has since written more than forty books for kids and teens, including the Greystone Secrets series, the Shadow Children series, the Missing series, the Children of Exile series, and lots of stand-alones. Haddix and her husband, Doug, now live in Columbus, Ohio, where they raised their two kids. You can learn more about her at haddixbooks.com.

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    • 5/5
      Strangers ? Gripping New ThrillerPaul Finch is one of the best crime writers of the moment with his Detective Mark Heckenburg series which is one of the bestselling series in the country. He is now introducing us to PC Lucy Clayburn a ten-year veteran in the Greater Manchester Police working around the Crowley division. All she wants to be is a detective but she blotted her copybook when she was a member of CID for a week and her Inspector was shot.Lucy Clayburn has worked the Crowley division and is even a training officer, but after ten years she tends to have a jaundiced eye, a coppers eye on things that happen. She knows her patch well, and certainly knows her regular ?customers? and not afraid to crack heads together when need be, even if it is just to save on the paperwork at the end of a shift.At the end of one shift Detective Superintendent Priya Newal, as to have a chat with her, and wonders if she would like to work on a high profile murder case. She would not be on as a detective, but as a decoy, she would be working the streets to gain the trust of all the working girls and gather intelligence. The Police are sure that their killer is a woman who is picking up men and then murdering them, while also removing their crown jewels.Clayburn has been given a patch on the East Lancs a busy A road that takes you from Manchester to Liverpool and she befriends a young prostitute, Tammy who seems to spend most of her time drunk. It is through Tammy that she starts to make connections and gains useable intelligence if not necessarily for the case she is on.Clayburn does not realise how much she is putting herself in danger, maybe, because every day of her working life in uniform she is used to the dangers. She does not realise how much she is putting herself in to danger when she starts to mix with some very dangerous Manchester criminals and one seems to recognise her from somewhere.As Lucy Clayburn works herself in to the ground, she is taken off the case, which still means the female killer is out there somewhere. Like any maverick with a hunch, Clayburn just has to have one last look at the case.Paul Finch has once again written a winner of a thriller with plenty of twists and turns you really do not know where he is taking you. Finch had created a character in Lucy Clayburn you just want to will to succeed, but like any central character things are not as easy as they should be.Finch?s prose at times brutal, but clear and paints picture of the north side of Manchester and the Crowley division, after the mining has gone, and industrialisation has moved somewhere else. This is a bleak hard division somewhere between Salford, Bolton and Wigan, where even the Rottweilers go around in pairs for their own safety.This is a wonderfully dark crime thriller, that will really draw you in, Paul Finch is a master storyteller, who knows how to keep the reader on tenterhooks from beginning to end. Paul Finch has created a truly gripping, gruesome thriller, whose female serial killer is prolific and well hidden, but his heroine has her dark secrets and is not afraid to walk in the valley of death. A new hero from a great author.

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    • 5/5
      Awesome ? awesome ? awesome ? great
    • 5/5
      I finished this book in two days. Now my daughter is reading this book. Such a good book, definitely recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      It was a great book and love it all the way to the end
    • 4/5
      The Greystone Kids - Chess, Emma, and Finn - are thrown for a loop when the see coverage of a kidnapping of three kids that look a lot like them, have their same names, and share the same birthdays. Then their mom leaves them. They stay with a family they don't know and start to slowly piece together what has happened to their mother, discover a secret room with a stash of supplies in their house, and try desperately to save their mother. Suspenseful and creative.
    • 3/5
      After their mother leaves town suddenly, ostensibly for work, but without her laptop or cell phone, the Greystone siblings Chess, Emma and Finn uncover secret after secret about how their mother may be tied in to a kidnapping of three children in Arizona, all of whom have the same names and birthdates as the Greystones. Plenty of cliffhanger chapter endings and suspenseful pacing right off the bat, a Haddix trademark. The “Scooby Doo” moments stretch credulity, the Mom dialogue after the kids find her is a bit of hackneyed drama (“Kids, kids, I love you so much! But you have to save the Gustano kids…And yourselves! You have to go! Now!”), and convenient plot twists abound.
    • 4/5
      The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix is the first book in the Greystone Secrets. Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone always knew who they were, but things change when three other children with the same names and birth dates catch their attention.This was an extremely interesting and fun read. I loved the characters, and the mystery that Margaret Peterson Haddix creates kept me turning the pages. I highly recommend this book to lovers of middle grade mystery.
    • 5/5
      Thanks to the publisher and Edelweiss for this DRC! I can say, without a doubt, that this new series will be an incredible hit! Filled with suspense and twists you don't always see coming, I couldn't put this one down. I loved how it is written in the three different voices of the children. This allows the reader a deeper understanding of the family relationships as well as each character's strengths and flaws. I don't want to write much about the plot for fear of ruining the suspense. Suffice it to say that middle grade readers will eat this up! I am anxiously awaiting the next installment of this series!
      Margaret Petereson Haddix has done it again!