Shadow Children

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Summary: AMONG THE HIDDEN
Review: Among the hidden is a book about a boy named Luke. He is the 3rd child in his family, but their family can only have 2 children in your family. So his whole life he is in his house all alone. Because of this he is called a shadow child. One day he sees a girl in a window and he already knows that 2 kids already live there. One day when he knows that everyone has left their house he goes over to see who is there. This becomes his only friend. She gets thrid children to go to the white house to force the gov. to allow third children to live normal lifes. Will it make a difference? Will Luke go to the thing at the white house.

This is a horrible book. It has no detail in the story. The book is boring. The author does not have anything to bring you in to the book at the beginning of it. The last setence is ... Lee Grant turned around to see what lay ahead.

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Summary: My students love these books!
Review: Among the Hidden and its sequels are among the hottest books in my classroom library. While the reading level is relatively low (4th or 5th grade), it is of high interest to students up through about 9th grade. These are great books for reluctant readers, especially boys, but girls like them, too. The premise is interesting, there is action and suspense, and they are well written. If you are looking for a great read-aloud for your classroom or a good book for a younger teenage reader, I highly recommend this series. In fact, I think even adults would like them...a great example of the best genre of books today - adolescent literature.

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Summary: Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Excellent book. The sequals are okay, but the first was very good.

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Summary: What starts as a great read ends being a good one
Review: This book is compliation of Haddix's first several books in her "Shadow Children" series. The first installment "Among the Hidden" is by far the best. It follows the story of Luke a third child living in a world where two children is the maximum that the "population police" allow. Luke realizes after years of family solitude that there are others like him and that in the danger of "being" he is not alone. The other books follow Luke and his friends (other thirds like him) as they are faced with trail after trail in their fight to be free.