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**Among The Hidden**
By Margaret Haddix

Reviewed by Ian Bell

In this story Among the Hidden, you are not specificly informed of where the events occur, but the novelist Margaret Haddix gives a pretty good job describing the landscape. Luke Garner is a victim of a new. government law. The rule was established because of the high population and there weren't enough supplies for everyone. Because of this, parents were limited to two children and any third born child would be executed. Luke is twelve years old, and he has two older brothers.Unfortunantly because he is a third born child he has to stay up in his attic all his life and can never leave the house. Later on in the story Luke gets tied up in something known as the shadow children and may be in way overhis head. Mr.talbot plays a great role in this story. He is not brought up into the story until the middle,but he helps luke survive the government agents //when they're looking for him.// as you can probably tell, the time sequence is in the future. You may have thought the future would be great but where luke lives, cats and dogs have gone extincted and if you were a third born child, your fate wouldn't be too different. through out the story, you will find out that luke isn't the only third child of his time and one is his next door neighbore who he meets unexpectectedly. One day while luke's family was out,he snuck outand broke into his neighbores house were he meets Jenny Talbot. jenny is also a third born child and has her own chatroom for kids like her.She calls it Operation Shadow Child where she can communicate whith others around the world. The one thing they dont know is that the chatroom was being moniterd by the government and all the shadow children are in grave danger. Thats all I can tell you so I suggest you read the book yourself.If you like books that have tremendous amounts of suspence and great amounts of emotion in each paragraph, then check out Among The Hidden by Margaret Haddix today.