While in college, Haddix worked a series of jobs. She graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with degrees in English/journalism, English/Creative writing, and History. Konigsburg books, Harriet the Spy, Anne of Green Gables, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Anne Frank, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and The Little Princess. Some of her favorite books growing up included E.L.
Her family was predominantly farmers and she grew up in a family of voracious readers. Haddix grew up on a farm about halfway between two small towns: Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio.
She also wrote the tenth volume in the multiple-author series The 39 Clues. Margaret Peterson Haddix weaves together two completely separate lives in this engaging novel that explores what it really means to be a family-and what to do when it’s all falling apart.Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) is an American writer known best for the two children's series, Shadow Children (1998–2006) and The Missing (2008–2015). Or maybe the lies and betrayal will only push them-and their families-farther apart. Maybe the girls can put aside their differences and work through it together. But in Spain, the two uncover a secret their families had hidden from both of them their entire lives. Kayla struggles just to imagine leaving the confines of her small town. Avery is horrified that her father thinks he can choose her friends-and make her miss soccer camp. So it’s a huge surprise when Avery’s father offers to bring Kayla along on a summer trip to Spain. The two girls were friends as little kids, but that’s ancient history now. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is known as “butt-girl” at school. Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty.
From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes a novel about friendship and what it really means to be a family in the face of lies and betrayal.
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