In Over Their Heads (Under Their Skin #2)

by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Author)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
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Haddix delivers her beleaguered-family-against-the-world plot (familiar from other series) in multiple perspectives, alternating the third-person narration among the four principals. Lida Mae’s Kentucky holler–style vocabulary veers toward the extreme (“you’uns” crops up), but she does add some local color and style. Patented Haddix adventure. 

ALA/Booklist

As in the previous book, there are cliff-hangers in every chapter, and the tension builds to a fever-pitch conclusion. Indeed, so much comes at the reader, it is sometimes hard to keep the story straight, but there’s no stopping until the heart-pounding conclusion. 

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781481417624
Lexile Measure
750
Guided Reading Level
R
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication date
April 10, 2018
Series
Under Their Skin
BISAC categories
JUV053000 - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction
JUV013060 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Parents
JUV013070 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings
Library of Congress categories
Brothers and sisters
Robots
Science fiction
Family secrets
Twins
Secrets
Extinction (Biology)
Human beings

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