Sabotage and Torn by Margaret Peterson Haddix

I'm going to put my review up here so that one does not have to read through the spoilers to get to it.

I love these books.  I love how there is a bit of history to them (though Torn is not always accurate) and that at the end of the book the author tells a little about the time and the "missing" doomed child.

I can't wait to read the fifth book and then I will anxiously await the next in the Missing series.  While I wait, I think I will be picking up some more of her books.

Sabotage and Torn are books three and four in The Missing series.  I recommend reading the other books before reading this review.

In Sabotage, Jonah and Katherine are sent back to 1603 with Andrea aka Virginia Dare to help fix time.  Unfortunately Amanda had been enticed by a strange man who told her if she messed with the Elucidator she would be able to save her parents who were killed in a car accident.  The kids end up in the wrong place and maybe in the wrong time.

Once landed they find tracers all over, but not Andrea's.  Jonah and Katherine are concerned about messing up time as each set they take may set off a chain reaction, but their bigger problem is the two light skinned- Native American looking tracers who don't seem to have humans to go with them.  The kids must follow the tracers and try to recreate their moves in order to not change history.

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The kids discover that Andrea's mystery man calls himself Second and is trying to give second chances to those in history.  Andrea meets her grandfather and his fate is changed, changing all time after.  But Second doesn't anticipate time collapsing on itself in a way that may just end it all...

Leaving the others behind, Jonah and Katherine are pulled out of 1603 and bounce through time landing in 1611 on board the Discovery, Henry Hudson's ship.  They must fix 1611 in order to keep time from ending, but the missing child, John Hudson, is no wear to be found and even scarier is that there are no tracers showing the original events.

Jonah must disguise himself as John and hope he doesn't do something that causes time to cease.