I.D.

Watchers #3

by Peter Lerangis

 To stay alive, an adopted girl must discover the secret of her birthWhen her parents tell her that she is adopted, Eve is upset but not surprised. After all, she doesn’t look like her parents, and has always felt a strange distance from them. But as she approaches her fourteenth birthday, something begins to feel very wrong. While skiing, she sees a girl about her age die suddenly of a heart attack. A few days later, Eve learns that the girl’s sudden death is part of a pattern of fourteen-year-olds dying of strange causes, based on a chromosomal defect. One of the dead is Alexis, a girl who looks exactly like Eve. Eve tracks down Alexis’s parents, hoping she has finally found her real family—but it turns out Alexis was adopted too. Something is killing fourteen-year-old children, and finding out where she comes from is the only way for Eve to save herself. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Lerangis including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. 

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Thriller

168 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Lerangis's work includes The Viper's Nest and The Sword Thief, two titles in the children's-book series The 39 Clues, the historical novel Smiler's Bones, the YA dark comedy-adventure novel wtf, the Drama Club series, the Spy X series, the Watchers series, the Abracadabra series, and the Antarctica two-book adventure, as well ghostwriting for series such as the Three Investigators, the Hardy Boys Casefiles, Sweet Valley Twins, and more than forty books in the series The Baby-sitters Club and its various spin-offs.[1] He has also written novels based on film screenplays, including The Sixth Sense, Sleepy Hollow, and Beauty and the Beast, and five video game novelizations in the Worlds of Power series created by Seth Godin.[2] As a ghostwriter he has been published under the name A. L. Singer.[3]
Lerangis is the son of a retired New York Telephone Company employee and a retired public-elementary-school secretary, who raised him in Freeport, New York on Long Island. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in biochemistry, while acting in musicals[4] and singing with and musically directing the a cappella group the Harvard Krokodiloes,[5][6] before moving to New York. He worked there as an actor[7] and freelance copy editor for eight years before becoming an author.[8]
In 2003, Lerangis was chosen by First Lady Laura Bush to accompany her to the first Russian Book Festival, hosted by Russian First Lady Lyudmila Putina in Moscow.[9][10]Authors R. L. Stine (Goosebumps) and Marc Brown (the Arthur the Aardvark series) also made the trip with Bush.[9]
Also in 2003, Lerangis was commissioned by the United Kingdom branch of Scholastic to write X-Isle, one of four books that would relaunch the Point Horror series there.[11] A sequel, Return to X-Isle, was published in 2004.
In 2007, Scholastic announced the launch of a new historical mystery series called The 39 Clues, intended to become a franchise.[12] Lerangis wrote the third book in the series, The Sword Thief, published in March 2009.[13][14][15] On March 3, 2009, Scholastic announced that Lerangis would write the seventh book in the series, The Viper's Nest.[14][16]
Lerangis lives in New York City with his wife, musician Tina deVaron, and their sons Nick and Joe.[17]

Reviews

[Dexter · Rating 4 out of 5]

As someone who developed arthritis as a teenager.. this one hits a little close to home (lol).

LARGE SPOILER ALERT

I have a bit of a soft spot for clones. I'm not sure why, but they just fascinate me. I.D. doesn't disappoint in that regard. It's a surreal and freaky story of Eve trying to find answers and to survive. It does have a bit of a different vibe than the first two books in the Watchers series. It almost feels completely unrelated, whereas the first two the Watchers seemed more involved. This time it really feels like the Watchers are literally just watching. Maybe even with concern? Not sure. I really am hoping we get some big time answers eventually, but who knows.

[Kylie Abecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a page turner. Very different to the first two books in the series, yet still brilliant in its own right. At first I thought you’re Eve had a split personality and I thought it was brilliantly portrayed, but the truth of her situation was well beyond what I had imagined. Love the writing style too.

[Anne Patkau · Rating 4 out of 5]

So the series is about friends, new and old, helping hero save lives, with a sci-fi theme: alternate worlds, time-travel, genetics, and inexplicable Watchers. Here Eve races ahead of genetic old-age disease, killing her, and according to supervising postscripts, others.

[Anjali Date]

I read it a long time ago, but I remember this being one of the first biology/ more intense (ie; not Bruce Colville) sci-fi novels I ever enjoyed. When I read it at age 13, I found most sci-fi kind of inaccessible in terms of the characters, but this was a great introduction for young teens, without being patronizing. I remember it being a good, high stakes story, with a competent, strong female character.

I vaguely remember finding the part with the Watcher a bit confusing and unnecessary, but it didn't get in the way of the narrative.

Very interesting and relatable for tween and teen girls, but the subject matter may be upsetting or confusing to children 10 and under.

[SR · Rating 4 out of 5]

THIS WAS THE CREEPIEST BOOK EVER WHEN I WAS NINE
Also, I had completely forgotten everything but the cover (which I remember being much plainer) with the girls in green dresses, and the fact that there were a bunch of clone-types who kept dying. And it had one of those horrible endings where IT'S NOT OVER YET... oh man. Love.

[Leah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cool. I didn't like the ending very much, but it was pretty good.

[Nicole]

Super cool sci-fi! Love the twist at the end

[Tina]

I love this book

[K.Superstar10]

This book had took my breathe away, It was mysterous and had my hanging on every word.