Margaret Peterson Haddix books in order

Margaret Peterson Haddix (born 1964) is an American author of novels for children and teenagers, best known for the Shadow Children series that began with Among the Hidden (1998). She was born on 9 April 1964 in Washington Court House, Ohio, and grew up on a family farm between Washington Court House and Sabina.

She studied English, journalism, creative writing and history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, including a semester in Luxembourg. She worked on newspaper internships in Urbana, Ohio, Charlotte, North Carolina and Indianapolis, then as a copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a reporter in Indianapolis, before turning to fiction.

Her first two books, Running Out of Time and Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey, were sold together; Running Out of Time was published in 1995 and won several state reader awards. The Shadow Children series ran from 1998 to 2006, and The Missing series (2008 to 2015), opening with Found, follows children displaced in time. Other books include Just Ella (1999), the first of The Palace Chronicles, and Uprising, which won an Ohioana Book Award in 2008.

For collectors

Open Library records editions of her debut, Running Out of Time (1995), from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers in the United States and from Bodley Head Children's Books in Britain. Among the Hidden (1998), the opening Shadow Children book, is the other natural starting point for a collection.