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media type="custom" key="7800051"**__Among the Hidden __** Have you ever thought about living your whole life indoors without any fresh air? Haddix's “//Among the Hidden//” was a very shocking tale that made me wonder if this story really could happen.

The science topic of this book is about famine and a population explosion which causes the government to have to set restrictions on the number of children each family can have. The author wrote the book from the perspective of Luke, a third child who was illegal since the government didn’t allow people to have more than two children. I liked this perspective because it made the book much more emotional and heartfelt. Luke spent his whole life hidden in the attic of his house never going to school, playing with friends or going outside. This author’s style is very unique from other books I've read because it’s realistic and makes it seem like it could actually happen. This author talked a lot about the main character and how he had to deal with being so lonely and his personal thoughts. There were many characters in the book but my favorites were Luke, a third child that always wanted to get fresh air and was very lonely, Jen, another third child that Luke meets later in the book; she’s always trying to risk her life, and Jen's dad, who worked for the population police.

The setting of //Among the Hidden// takes place in a housing development near the woods. The plot of the story is about a kid named Luke that finds himself as a shadow child that has lived his entire life in hiding who is bored out of his mind. Now there’s a housing development that is replacing the woods near his house. Then one day when he's looking out the window and he sees a girls face in the window of one of the houses. He finally met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything she has to come out of the shadows, is Luke up to it?

I would recommend this to anyone who likes thrilling books and wouldn't mind if they didn't put it down. ‘’//Among the Hidden’’// was an awesome book. By: Dillon Titus

 "Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix." Bookfoolery and Babble. Web. 08 Jan. 2011. .