Why Margaret Peterson Haddix wrote Risked

     I think the author wrote this series/book to help us understand what life in other time periods was like and how much had changed from back then. I think another reason is to tell us why we should be thankful to have what we have because these kids in their got taken away from their parents and just got sent to a different time period. This book also gives us a perspective of what life back in the day was like because in one book they got sent to England in the 1500s  in the 1500s the new technology we have was not available so it did a very good job telling us how they managed to get their work done without all these new inventions.

     This book made me realize that you don't need the new inventions to be able to survive, I used to say I can't live without my phone but back then they didn't have these, there was no way to communicate and they still made it through. In another book it was Albert Einstein's story and it made me realize that to be successful in life you just need perseverance because Einstein was very good at Math and he was very smart but his community would not give him a chance to explain and he kept failing and he couldn't find the correct way to prove the theories, but he kept trying and never gave up and now he is a  well known scientist that we appreciate.

     This series has taught me many good lesson like to never give up, in such a well organized book full of mystery and humor at the same time.