Author Profile
Margaret Peterson Haddix
1 Books
Margaret Peterson Haddix is an acclaimed American author best known for her engaging young adult and middle-grade science fiction and fantasy novels. She has written dozens of popular books, including the bestselling Shadow Children and The Missing series, which explore themes of identity, time travel, and dystopian futures. Her standalone works, such as Double Identity and Just Ella, further showcase her ability to craft suspenseful and thought-provoking narratives for younger readers.
Sukie is starting to get seriously worried about her parents. Lately, they have been acting completely bizarre! When she runs through the house, her dad suddenly asks, If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off a bridge too? When she eats peas with her fingers, her mom yells, You will put an eye out with that thing! What in the world is going on? Have her perfectly normal parents been abducted and replaced by aliens? Are they secretly robots with broken circuits? Sukie and her older brothers decide it is time to launch a full-scale investigation. But what they discover is even wilder than they imagined, leading to an all-out, hilarious war between the kids and the parents! Can Sukie and her brothers figure out how to break the strange spell before their parents drive them completely crazy? This laugh-out-loud chapter book is packed with wacky family antics, clever mysteries, and a whole lot of fun.
6-8 Years
9-12 Years
68 Pages
