Among the Hidden

By Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Publishers Summary:
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

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ISBN
978-0-68981-700-7
Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1998.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on September 1, 1998

Gr 5-8 Born third at a time when having more than two children per family is illegal and subject to seizure and punishment by the Population Police, Luke has spent all of his 12 years in hiding. His parents disobeyed once by having him and are determined not to do anything unlawful again. At first the woods around his family's farm are thick enough to conceal him when he plays and works outdoors, but when the government develops some of that land for housing, his world narrows to just the attic. Gazing through an air vent ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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