Chasing The Falconers

Chasing the Falconers

Gordon Korman

Scholastic backs published Chasing the Falconers , by Gordon Korman , in 2005 . It is a short novel , which is sometimes called a novella , and is 160 pages long . It is one in a series of action-adventure tales that , all combined , tell a single story . Aiden Falconer is 15 and his sister , Meg , is 11 . They are the heroes of the book and the story is told from their perspective . The series together is called On The Run . Chasing the Falconers , even though it is a book is

more like the first chapter in the story . Their parents have been imprisoned by the government for something they did not do and the story is all about how they try to free them . It is slow to start the action at the beginning of the story

As the book opens Aidan and Meg are in a juvenile detention center called Sunnydale Farm in Nebraska . It is a minimum-security center used as an alternative rehabilitation facility for delinquent youths . The two kids have not committed a crime but they are being held there in a sort of protective custody for their own good , to take care of them while their parents are in prison . In an unlikely and seemingly illegal move they are given new identities and incarcerated instead of being placed with relatives or in foster care

The parents of Aiden and Meg are named John and Louise Falconer . They are both professors and criminologists . Korman tells the readers that months before this story opens the two adults have been found guilty of treason against the United States and now they are serving life sentences in separate prisons . Both of them have been working for the Central Intelligence Agency in efforts to combat terrorism

The adult Falconers ' area of expertise is profiling . They have been working under the guidance of a CIA agent operative by the name of Uncle Frank Lindenauer . However , at their later trials the CIA testified that they have no such agent working for them and do not know anyone by that name . In effect the CIA denied any knowledge of the Falconer 's working for the government agency . Uncle Frank had given them the assignment of creating pros by which the United States government would be able to more easily identify and pinpoint the locations of various terrorists around the world . Somehow the work that they were doing for a man they believed to be an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency came into the possession of the terrorists , who are the same people that the Falconers have been working to locate

When the rest of the world finds out that this information was created by the Falconers and supposedly given to terrorist by them , there is a loud cry to arrest them . At their trial , with the CIA denying that they work for the government , it is pretty certain that that they will be found guilty . Their lawyer cannot find the elusive Uncle...