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Summary: Among the Hidden
Review: After reading this book I felt as if I understand the world more.Among the Hidden is about how two opposites can be so much alike. Luke Garner is a third child, also knowen as a shadow child.Luke is not allowed to to be in his home due to the population law.Each home may only have two children. Luke quickly realizes he is not alone. Luke sees Jen in a window one day. When he suddenly realizes that family already has two children. Could she be another shadow child? Or is he alone in the world? Margret Peterson Haddix did a wonderful job on this bokk. Some outhers she has written are, Running out of Time, Don't YOu Dare Read this Mrs.Dunphry, and Leaving Fishers. All four have great reviews. This story is set in the future. It takes place on lukes farm, and in the new Subdision. I think that children 12 to 20 would injoy this book. Anyone younger might not understand the problems in the story. I think this book was very well written. I loved every moment of it. She told dome very amizing tales in this story. They were very descriptive and precise. So I think that you should read this book. But if you don't like surpises,fights for freedom, or tragedy. This book is not for you. Therefor I think that this is the best of her collection, and that should injoy reading it.
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Summary: Among the Hidden
Review: Margaret Peterson Haddix who is this author of Among the Hidden is also the author of Running out of Time. Margaret's stories are based on the government having control on the town and the people. I think they are good books about that subject. It has a good point that freedom is important and that you shouldn't have to worry about being seen by other people besides your own family. The book is about a boy who is a third child. Where this family of five lives families are only allowed to have two kids. The boy's name is Luke. Luke is what is called a shadow child. He lives out in the farmland. The farm becomes a neighborhood. Luke has to watch out now for the population police and other neighbors seeing him. If Luke gets caught there could be a severe consiquince. When Luke was up in his room looking out the vents, he saw somebody in his neighbor's house. At that time he relized that he wasn't the only shadow child. He went over to the neighbor's house very quietly not even letting his dad know he wasn't in the house anymore. There was a young girl like him. Her name was Jen. Luke and Jen became good friends. In the story something happens to one of them. Read the book for more details on both Luke and Jen. You can find out what happen to both of them. This is a short novel and a great story!
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Summary: WOW!!!! what a thrilling book!!!!!!
Review: Among the hidden is such a great book!!!! The plot that the author writes is so unimaginable that it really makes you want to read the book! The plot goes as there is a boy, named Luke, who is a shadow child. He must live in the attic because there is population police who will take him away if they found out about him. He soon finds out that the Government thinks that if people have more than 2 children then alll the food in the world will soon be gone. He gets this info from a fellow shadow friend who lies next door to him. She is very spunkful and adventurous, and schemes up ideas on how to stop the population police. Her ideas are so witful that Luke is having to make the biggest decision of his life. "Very suspensful, the best book ive read in a long time." "intriging plots, twisting ends, makes u think" "I gave it 4 stars and i believe it earns them. Haddix writes a best seller by far"
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Summary: This is a must read book
Review: This book was great. I read this book for a book report and I didn't read this just because I had to it was because I wanted to. I herd this book from a libaryian. When she told me that it was about the third child being hiddin because if the third child would be cought he would be killed. I am the third child so I thought this book would be a great book for me. This is why I thought this was a great book.
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Summary: Absolute page turner
Review: It's population control gone crazy in this tale where extra siblings are put to death. Like is shocked when he spots a third child in a house where two boys live. Like Luke, Jen is forced to hide. But when they meet other "shadow children" via the Internet, they rally for their rights.
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Summary: You cannot "un-know" information!
Review: Ditto other comments that this is the new children's version of "1984" - I'm an advocate of teaching that it's OK to question authority, to question government, to ask for reasons. This book combines a story that does have basis in truth in some cultures in the world now with "what ifs" that could happen if no one asks for reasons. It shows that technology is now a link to be reckoned with in our daily lives. Read it with your 8-10 year olds --- some 10-12 year olds can do it on their own! And recommend it to your friends and co-workers. Also read "The Indigo Child" (Lee Carroll and Jan Tober)for insight about the "new" children.
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Summary: This book is definentely not among the hidden!!
Review: This book was one of the most suspensful books I've ever read. magaret Peterson Haddix really wrote a page turner. Not one moment of this novel is dull. You HAVE to read this book!
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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: This book is about a time where there is over-population and the government makes a law that no person can have more than three children. Luke is a third child who has never known anyone except his two brothers and his parents because he has never been able to go outside, since he is a third child and sombody might see him and suspect something. One day he sees a face in a window at his neighbor's house where there was should have been nobody home. He decides to dangerously go outside and sneak into the house. When he gets inside he meets a girl who is also a third child like he thought. The rest of the book is about them preparing to do a demonstration in front of the White House saying that third children shouldn't be having to hide anymore. (You have to read the book to find out the rest.) The book does get a little boring at times and very sad but overall it's a great book!
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Summary: Well written but short-sighted and simplistic.
Review: I won't reiterate the basic plot as plenty of other reviewers have done that very well, so instead I'll comment on the themes in the book and some problems I see with it. The issue faced by the characters in the book, that of overpopulation and what to do about it, is an important one, and deserves to have a children's book written about it. The possibility that we will one day be limited to two children or fewer per family, and people will undergo forced sterilization, is not so unlikely. China already has strict population control laws (one child) with heavy fines for violators. However the author simplifies the issue to a simple black and white set of extremes. She fails to fully examine the issue of overpopulation. In the book, the need for population levelling is solely due to food shortages. The characters assert that it's mostly due to mismanagement by the government that the famine happened at all. In fact, everything bad appears to be the fault of the controlling, fascist, yet inept government. Even in the end, the author doesn't appear to grasp the reality of the effect of our population explosion: Food is not the only issue. Others include, "Where will we put all the waste from these people? How will there be enough drinking water? How will we have enough energy to run the machines we need to support our society? Where will resources come from to create things like clothes, furniture, houses, cars? How do we deal with all the pollution this manufacturing brings with that many more people? And how will we survive when we've cut down all the trees and there is no oxygen being produced? The simple answer given in the book seems to be "we could police ourselves--some people could have more kids if others had fewer". And who does that policing? We certainly aren't doing it now. What are realistic ways we can address this population issue? The author also appears to be showing how fascist and evil the government is by showing how they outlawed junk food and even meat. Vegetarians are truly the evil of the future. ;) This is an interesting absurdity in that more calories are contained in fat than in anything else, so if food was scarce, it would make more sense to make food very high in fat. One excellent point the author does assert is that those who make the laws often don't follow them. Exceptions are made when it is convenient for those in power. This is an excellent point and I would have liked this to be expanded a bit more. Especially since those in power (the U.S. right now) currently use up many times more resources per person than the non-powerful (3rd world countries). The barons in the book, by excepting themselves from the rules, are causing even greater harm. Yet, even that point isn't explained, just inferred. Perhaps the simplicity is necessary for a children's story, and yet, the heaviness of the topic and the tragedy of the plot, are all mature enough themes that any reader of the book should be able to handle the additional complexity. The author also only shows one side of the story: that of the victims of an extremist, totalitarian government who dealt inappropriately with a very real disaster. What I would have liked to have seen would have been an afterword that addressed some of these issues on a level kids could understand. Just presenting the ideas in a fictional context may be too confusing. Other award-winning children's books that either deal with confusing, heavy issues, or take place in other mystifying eras, have afterwards for more information. I think such a beast would help this book tremendously. As it is, I am curious to know what children reading this book come away with thinking: Is overpopulation bad? Or os the government bad and we don't really need to worry about overpopulation? Because I fear the latter is the message children will walk away with after reading this novel, I have to be very wary about recommending this book.
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Summary: 5 stars-Read it!
Review: I really liked this book by Margaret Peterson Haddix. In this book a boy named Luke is the third child born in a family. It is illegal to have more than two children. So Luke is called a "shadow child." He secretly discovers, in a new house next to his, a girl about his age in the window, but he already new that two other children were living in that house. Luke secretly meets this girl, Jen, and they plan to protest against having the law that it is illegal to have a third child in a family. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes suspenseful reading! So why don't you give it a whirl!
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