Among the Hidden

Title: Among the Hidden

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

ISBN: 9780689824753

Series: The first book in the Shadow Children series.

Summary

This is a world that full of people and there are not enough of foods for everyone. The government creates the population law to control the growth of the population. Under this law, a family can only have two children. If a family has a third child, he or she will have to die. The third child will have to be hidden from the police in order to prevent from being executed. These children are called the shadow child. Luke Garner is one of the shallow children. Luke does not know anyone besides his family. He lives the same life every day, stays in the house, reads books, and waits for others to come home. Everything changes when he discovered anyone shallow child, a girl named Jen.

Review

This is a great book. The tenseness and fast-pacing plots are making readers run throughout the pages. The author is a great job on creating the mysterious atmosphere that readers will want to know more about it. It was a good start for the series. Personally, I feel related to the story because I was the third child in the family and the country where I was born has a population law that not allows a family has more than three children. My parents have to figure out something to go around the law in order to have me.