Among the Hidden

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Summary: Among the Hidden
Review: Among the Hidden
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Reviewed by: A. Chin
Period 5

Among the Hidden is about Luke, a shadow child. A shadow child is the third child in a family that already has two children. During that time, the society only allowed two children maximum in each family. If you were a third child in a family, you could never be seen. If the Population Police caught you, your parents could be fined 5 million dollars are you might even be executed. You would always be hiding. This is the life which Luke lived all his life. Luke finds his two older brothers very lucky. Mark and Matthew always got to go to school or even ride in a car. Luke never was able to do these things, and only had model cars to imagine with. The person he felt closest to the most in his family was his mother. His mother was always there to comfort him. Luke has learned to hide as well. Hiding has taken a big part in Luke's life. One day, Luke sees a face in the Sports' family's house. The Sport Family already has two children and they have both left for the day. Luke cannot believe that he has just seen another face. To make sure that what he saw was true, Luke observes the house for about two weeks. He notices that when all the members of the family leave, he sees slight, quick movements which only a human was able to do. Now Luke is pretty sure that there is a third child living in the Sports' families' house. Luke decides to go and visit the child one day. When he does, he finds that she's a girl and so different from himself. Her name is Jen, short for Jennifer. Jen is also a Baron. Later on, Luke gets a fake I.D. and pretends to be Lee Grant. Luke will miss his parents and family very much.

I liked this book because it has lots of page-turners in it. For example, the author writes, "Before he had time to think again, he pushed himself off into a sprint, recklessly streaking across the grass. He didn't even stop to hide at any trees. He ran right to thr Sports Family's door and tugged at the screen. It was locked." These are one of my reasons of why i liked this book.

My second reason of why I liked this book is because I like the plot of the story. The story plot is very interesting and creative. This is shpwn in this quote, "No one had ever told him exactly what would happen if anyone saw him. Death? Death was what happened to the runt pigs who get stepped on by their stronger brothers and sisters. death was a fly that stopped buzzing when the swatter hit it. He had a hard time thinking about himself in connection with the smashed fly or the dead pig, gone stiff in the sun. It made his stomach feel funny even trying." This is my I think the plot of the story is interesting. i have not read a book with the same plot. I have read plots with similar plots for the stoey, but not as interesting as this one.

My favorite part of the book is when Luke goes and meets Jen at her house. Luke takes a high risk of being scene, but since he is so anxious to meet another third child he just goes there anyways. When he gets to her house, he finds the screen door locked. Luke starts to break through the screen fencing and soon finds himself picking at the lock. When Luke goes inside he finds a girl typing away at a computer. Her name is Jen, short for Jennifer. This is my favorite part of the book because it makes you want to read more and more of what is going on in the story. It is a page-turner throughout the scene. This is why it is my favorite part of the book.

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Summary: Among the Hidden
Review: Among the Hidden
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Reviewed by: J. Yeh
Period: P.1

Among the Hidden is about a young boy named Luke. During those times, shadow children, third children that weren't allowed because they didn't have enough food to feed them. Luke was one of those shadow children forbidden by the Population Police. He has hidden in his house and has never gone out to see the world. He had to sit by the stairs so that no one would see him in the kitchen. One day, Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house close by where there are already two children living there. Luke goes to check it out, and meets a shadow child, Jen, just like him. They become close friends, and Luke meets more shadow children online. One day, Jen and the other shadow children decide to go to the government so that shadow children would be able to live. Luke refused, and Jen went with the others. She was killed with all the other shadow children, and their blood was cleaned before tourists came. Luke meets Jen's father who is one of the Population Police, but turns out that he helps shadow children. Luke wants to go to school, so Jen's father helps him. He gives him a fake I.D. and enters him to a school for boys.

I liked this book because it was very interesting with the relationship between Luke and Jen. One quote in this book was,"Want something to eat or drink? I was so surprised, I forgot to be a good hostess the last itme. What'll it be? Soda? Potato chips?" This quote was when Jen first met Luke and offered him something to eat or drink which the food is illegal. Another quote is "You're crazy. I can't go, and neither should you. It's too dangerous." This quote shows how much Luke doesn't want somebody hurt.

My favorite part of the book was when Luke ran out of his house and into Jen's. That part was interesting because doing that seemed dangerous especially with Population Police hanging around. Meeting Jen was also interesting because Luke found out that she was one of the shadow children.

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Summary: among the Hidden
Review: Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix[...]

In the book Among the Hidden, Luke is a shadow child or forbidden third child. He has to hide if he wants to live. If he shows his face to the population police he will be executed.
This book is really good because I never knew what would happen next. I couldn't stop reading.
This author is really interesting; her style is very intriguing. She always keeps me on the edge of my seat. This book kept me up all night. I couldn't stop flipping the pages. In fact I read the first one hundred pages in one night. I can't wait to read the sequels. The only boring parts were the endless talks with Jen, another shadow child.
This book has some weaknesses. For example, Luke meets another third child and isn't even willing to strike with her for their right to live. Luke also never seems happy; he has so little but when he finds Jen, you think he is going to be best friends with her but they always get into fights. Also he keeps on talking about what he can't do. Can't he just get it that he can do that kind of stuff at Jen's house?
This book has several strengths. For example, the Population Police aren't too easy to dislike, they don't look ugly, they don't have rotten teeth and they don't smell bad. It is strength because it makes you think more to see what sides they take. Also it is a very creative idea to have the characters be who they are. For example, a rich third child and a poor third child like each other.
This is a great book for anyone who likes adventure and a whole ton of surprises.

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Review: Among the hidden

In this book Among the Hidden the government for the United States of America made a new law that a family cannot have more than two children and if they do they will kill that child.. There is a third child (or shadow child), named Luke. He lives out in the woods but then the government came and chopped down all the trees. They came and built more houses. When Luke finds another third child he starts to think how to get over to its house. It was a very good book I would recommend it. If u want to no the rest of the book then go and read Among the Hidden now.

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Summary: Not Great Just Okay
Review: It's okay but I would only check it out from your local library.
It's kind of funny how Luke is always afraid. He is forced to hide,because there's this dumb law about population. You can only have two kids,and he is the third. Well I didn't like it but you might.

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Summary: Among The Hidden
Review: I'm ten years old and as a ten year old this is one of the best books I've read all year. It was not depressing or painful. It was just an Awsome book. I DON'T think children are to young to read this book and I was digusted by some of the reviews I read. This is about how good a book is. Not if it's read by an appriate age and it's a great book period.

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Summary: A Good Book For Teens
Review: Among the Hidden is about a boy named Luke. Where Luke lives it is illegal to have three kids. Luke is a third child, and he has to live in the "shadows." While hiding at home at home he notices, a light on in another house. He goes to investigate. At the house he meets a girl named Jen. Jen is also a third child. She is trying make it legal for parents to have more than two kids. She teaches Luke that it is better to try to live, then to live in fear.

I thought it was very good book. It made me think about what would happen if our country was a communist country. I recommend this book.

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Summary: Too bleak for children
Review: This book is so dark, so negative, so full of pain, disappointment and fear, that it's hard for me to understand how anyone could think it appropriate for young children.

There is certainly a need for children's literature that places children in difficult, painful situations and helps them find a way out. The best of this kind of writing is truly inspirational. But there's no inspiration here - it's pure paranoia and pain.

And it's poorly written, to boot.

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Summary: Eh...
Review: An interesting set of ideas. Here you have a hero that is an unwanted third child and whose life is in constant danger as a result. Remarkably, this is the first in a series of books about the life and adventures of Luke. The writing here is fine. I won't praise it endlessly, but it has a nice set of ideas that are created in a set order. This world is well thought out and the people believable. I enjoyed one character's assessment of government and subversive propaganda, and how intelligent people find the truth somewhere in the middle. Unfortunately the narrator is a fan of heavy foreshadowing. There's enough of it in this book to make one feel as if the climactic occurrences that appear throughout the story have already occurred. In the canon of sci-fi futuristic utopias in children's literature this will not make the top ten. But it's worth reading and well thought out.

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Summary: Awesome Book
Review: I have read this in school and it is an awesome book. Great writer, very intersting. everyone should buy it.