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=media type="custom" key="7803235"Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix= How would you feel if the government past a new law saying that you could only have 1-2 kids? In the book I read that takes place in the future the government had passed a new law so that the population would go down and the world would never go hungry.

The main character, Luke, is a shadow child. That means they should never had been born. Luke is 12 years old and lives on a farm with his mom, dad. and 2 brothers Matthew and Mark. they live in a total vacant area, so Luke can go in the backyard and play with his brothers until the government took that away along with their livestock. Also, they start building houses for Barons ( those are what the really rich people are called ). And after all of the houses are built Luke's mom gets a job and has to start going to work and Luke is home alone. One day he is sitting in his attic bedroom when after all the Barons left, he sees a light turn on in one of the Barons homes, then for the next few days he starts seeing things in that house. Then Luke decides to try to go over to there house and meets another shadow child named Jen.

In the book Luke goes to Jen's house at the same time not telling his parents a thing about it.One day Jen tells Luke she and a bunch of other shadow children are going on a rally in Washington D.C. to try to get the law of not able to have more than 2 kids revoked. I think Jen is a crazy person because of her plan to drive herself and a bunch of other kids to D.C.

In my family I have a younger brother and a younger sister, and if I lived in the time Luke does, my sister would be illegal. I would most likely call the police to go take her away so my family would be much happier. Because I am the oldest of three, I wouldn't really think it mattered if that law took place or not.

I Would recommend this book to anyone who likes Science fiction books about the future. Do you think Jen's plan will work? Do you think the government will ever have to turn to this? Read this book and you decide.