Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

            Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

            What happens when the law states that a family may only have two children?  You hide the third child, of course.  Luke Garner is an illegal third child.  He grew up on his family farm with his two older brothers, Matthew and Mark.  They would play outside all day, as nobody was around to see Luke.  That is, until the bulldozers came.

            The government decided that the Barons, the richest of the rich, needed new homes.  People came with equipment to knock down Luke’s beloved woods.  Due to this, Luke was forced to hide out in his own house, buried away in the attic as his father grew more and more paranoid about the government finding Luke.

            Luke reluctantly complied with his family’s wishes.  He sat up in the attic all day by himself, his brothers at school and his parents at work.  He would sit and play solo card games while he awaited his family to return home.  Then the day came when he saw a face in his new neighbors’ window.

            Luke had been observing his new Baron neighbors and noticed that one particular house, the one directly behind his, contained a family of four: the parents and two teenage boys.  While observing the house one day, he noticed a girls face in a window.

            Luke had a new mission in life: to go and see the girl, meet her and discover if there are other children like him.

            When I was young, my library teacher had started reading this book to us.  We never got all the way through it, as the year had come to an end.  Recently, I had decided to pick the book up for myself and read it.  Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix became one of my favorites.  I suggest you read it and its sequels.  I gave this book four out of five stars.