Risked
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Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
Risked / Margaret Peterson Haddix. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (The missing ; bk. 6)
Summary: Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II’s family is about to be executed. Author’s note includes facts about the Romanovs and the mystery surrounding their deaths.
ISBN 978-1-4169-8984-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4424-2647-4 (eBook)
1. Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868–1918—Family—Fiction. [1. Time travel—Fiction. 2. Aleksei Nikolaevich, Czarevitch, son of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1904–1918—Fiction. 3. Anastasia, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901–1918—Fiction. 4. Soviet Union—History—Revolution, 1917–1921—Fiction. 5. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H1164Ris 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2012006770
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
About Margaret Peterson Haddix