While I had the first two or three checked out at the same time, I finished them all in one day and a snowstorm kept me from getting the rest of the series right when I wanted them, no, NEEDED them. My thoughts: I remember discovering this series a few years after I first started blogging. Then he sees a face could Luke have found another hidden child? Could this child be his friend? Only if Luke dares to disobey his parents and go outside. One day Luke notices that one of the neighbor's has his lights on when no one is supposed to be home. Things seem to be getting progressively worse so much so that his mother decides to get a job-in a factory, I believe-leaving Luke alone in the house.

His family fears the Population Police so much that they don't even allow Luke to eat with them in the kitchen. Luke 'lives' his life in the attic and on the stairs. But when the woods around his house are bulldozed to make room for more houses-or apartments-even that small bit of liberty is lost. Luke Garner is a shadow child, an illegal third child his parents are farmers in a rural community which gave him small doses of freedom-if freedom means breathing fresh air outside-now and then. Premise/plot: Among the Hidden is the first book in Margaret Peterson Haddix's fast-paced futuristic middle grade series. But I'm going to try to read more of her books (again, again) this year. I don't know that my library still has in its collection the whole series.

I enjoy rereading her books every now and then. Now.' He had never disobeyed the order to hide.ĮTA: I really love, love, love Margaret Peterson Haddix. Then he heard his mother call out the kitchen window: 'Luke! Inside. First sentence: He saw the first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance.

Haddix books among the hidden