A plane from nowhere with nothing but infants onboard—with her characteristic imaginative and atmospheric storytelling, Haddix launches a fascinating series focused on the "missing" children of history. This opening installment and those that follow provide exciting adventures and raise great ideas and questions for thought and discussion. (Book One in Missing Series) One night a plane appears out of nowhere, the only passengers aboard: 36 babies. As soon as they are taken off the plane, they vanish. Now, 13 years later, two of those children are receiving sinister messages, and they begin to investigate their past.