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Among the Impostors

Among the Impostors

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Among the Imposters
Review: Are you a third child? Well Luke Garner is and he has to hide the rest of his life from the Population Police because third children are illegal. They'll take him away if he is found out. Now for the first time Luke is living outside with others at Hendricks school for boys. Mr. Talbot, the man who is taking care Luke leaves a note hopefully to say what to do and when and where are his classes. But when Luke reads it all that it says is
" Blend in". Then one day Luke sees a door to the outside. No one knows what the outside will bring Luke. Luke changed because now he knows not to go anywhere he doesn't know. The conflict is third children against Population police. Remember don't wander off any where don't know of. Or you could be in trouble is the theme. I give this book four stars because this book was great but it did not deserve five stars.

By Tom Kralik

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: among the impostors
Review: Everything changed quickly. Location,home, clothes and his identity Mr.Talbot made sure Luke would be safe at a school for boys called Hendricks School. Mr. Talbot didn't know if he would be happy there. Yearning to read the note Mr. Talbot gave him before abandoning Luke in the windowless school and erratic flow of boys into random classrooms. Luke will keep his identity hidden.Luke seemed to find happiness finding a door to outside and all strangeness of his new life.Mr.Hendricks is owner of the school Luke went to. Luke was a third child to smuggle into Hendricks school for boys.Luke lived with his mom,dad and two brothers,Mark and Matthew on the farm. Luke was a quite boy and never been away from home.At the time I picked this book that started off a wee bit slow. I should of read the first book,because it was a series and I would of had a better understanding of the books happenings.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very good, but not great
Review: First off, if you haven't read the first book of the series you need to before you think about reading this one(Among the Hidden). This book was a good book, but at the very end, it kind of got off the whole subject and left me wondering what the next book in the series could possibly be about. The book was about a young man named Luke who was a hidden third child. In this book Luke is given a fake I.D. so he can go to Hendriks, a school for boys, where he is told to blend in. Luke is afraid that trying to blend in too much is going to get him caught. The book has lots of twists and turns. It will get your heart racing and hoping for Luke who now goes by his alias of Lee Grant.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: among the imposters
Review: Haddix has created a fascinating character in Luke (now named Lee Grant), who is a third child and thus not allowed to exist according to the government. Thus, Luke/Lee must remain a shadow (shadowchild) for discovery by the Population Police can result in death.

Luke has been put in a boy's school by Jen's father (Mr. Talbot). Mr. Talbot cannot even tell Luke what he needs to do there because all his conversations are bugged. All he can do is hand Luke a note.

The school is totally weird, with boys kind of walking around like zombies and the building itself has no windows. Luke has to endure torture from his roommate (who Luke calls Jackal boy) to even be allowed to sleep. A long time passes until Luke is finally able to read the note. It does not say what Luke expected.

Eventually, Luke discovers he can sneak outside and he makes it a normal routine until one day he discovers some of his schoolmates, led by Jackal Boy, have the same idea. Luke discovers some of them may be Shadow children too. Luke has a dilemma. Should he open up to them as to who he really is or continue to hide his identity?

Great story and intriguing characters! For adults these books are super-fast reads. This is book 2 of the series and I understand Haddix has already published book 5. Worth getting all of them!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Sequel to My FAVORITE BOOK EVER!!!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. I'd read it again and again if I had owned it....!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Interesting book
Review: I am very impressed with margaret peterson haddix's writing ability!Among the imposters was a very hard book to put down in my opinion! something is always happening constantly! I did find one flaw with the book, most books, when they are in a series, explain at the beginning what happened in the previous book(s), but in the beginning of Among the Imposters, Margaret Haddix pretty much just starts from where she left off, which is a good thing if you read the first book in the series, but bad if you just pick it up and start reading. I would deafenately reccomend this book to anyone who read Among the Hidden.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: sooooo exciting!!!
Review: I love this book so much, its one of my favorite books! Among the Hidden was good-amazing but this book is MUCH MORE amazing!!! Once you start reading this, you can't put it down! It's about a boy named Luke, who is a third child. They're not allow to keep any third children so Luke hides for his whole life. One day, he gets a fake ID and goes to the boarding school. He is so curious about everything-(don't want to give it away) so he decides to find out on his own! It's an amazing book and it's not hard! Now I'm going to read the third sequel, Among the Betrayed.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wow! This book is awesome!
Review: I read this book because it was a sequel to Among the Hidden, which I liked. This book was totally great! It was very exciting! The characters are very interesting, and the story is really, really cool. This book starts where the Among the Hidden stops, so you actually find out some of what happens after Among the Hidden. This book is really good! I recommend this book totally, but it would probably be good to read Among the Hidden first.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Hi!
Review: I read this book because it's a Lone Star book (6, 7 and 8th grade reading list.) I don't know why because it's a 5th grade reading level. Moving on, the whole time I was reading it, I thought it was based on The Giver. Almost everything is like what happens after Jona runs away. That annoyed me. The book is very predictable and boring. Nothing made me want ot read more. The author seems to describe everything using three words that mean the same thing. After the 43rd page, I put the book down in anger. Do people think I'm going to actually read this? At least the guy on the cover is kind of cute...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A page turner
Review: I really enjoy the way Margaret Peterson Haddix makes it feel as if you are in the story and you don't want to let go of the book, because you never know what is coming next. I usually don't like fiction books, but this series is really good. I think when you read the first few pages of this book you might be like "oh sad", but once you get a little bit further into the book you then will know the story behind it all. I would really recommend this to someone who is looking for a good book!


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