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This is a really good book about a kid named luke who is a shadow child and it means that your family is only allowed to have two kids and he is a third child so he has to stay hidden I think this was a really good book (Brad)

this is book to remember a heart stopping chapter this book is about a boy named luke is forsed in the shadows by this part of the government they called the Population police they moniter every single family private chat room even to enspect houses to check dont have more than 2 childern he explans his every day life with new development of houses next door once the comunity was finished many house owners come in to buy the new houses for sale THEN his life change when he saw Girl next door...............this book is an adventure and mystery lots of people like it a must read

(Ernesto)

This book is fantastic its exciting and has a lot of suspense I recomend this book to peole who like a little suspense/actionadventure it has a slow begining but once you get to the BEST PARTS!!!!! you'll love this book and once you finish it you'll remember it thats why i love this book.(Alex) ___

This book was really weird and interesting cause you are only allowed to have two kids because of food shortage and if you have more then two kids they are known a shadow children which is illegal. If the population police suspects anything they will come search your house. A 12 year old boy names Luke is a 3rd child, also known as a 'shadow' child. He once had a normal-ish life untill the govenment cut down the trees around his house and now he has to stay in his room most of the time and if he wants to enter a room he has to make sure the blinds are closed. One day he notices a 3rd child in his neighbors house, who just mooved in the place whes\re the woods once were. he decides to go over to her house to meet her. Him and Jen develope a friend ship and Luke keeps going over to Jens and they get invited to a rally for 3rd children to get reliced Luke desides not to go to the rally cause he was scaredhe was going to get caught, two weeks later Luke desides to go ask Jen ho the rally was and she wasn't at home. Her father sees Luke and he had a gun then him and Luke talked and Jens dad told him that Jen died Luke was really upset the \n he told him that he worked for the popular\tion police and luke tried to shoot him. Then the poopulation police came and he hid luke in a closet he didnt get caught then jens dad made luke a fake id and luke went to explore the world live hes life and free 3rd children. The best theme is courage because Jen was very risky and courages I am like Jen in a was cause i feel like a mojor reble at timea\s and i also conect to luke cause im a scardey cat sometimes (ericka)

This book is all about suspence and courage, because this book is about this 12 year old boy named Luke who is a shadow child because, the population police is running out of food so they only allow 2 children per family but if you have 3 children than that child is a shadow child which is really depresing to be, and i think that that is very wrong for them to do. Later Luke looks out the window and finds a girl, so when Lukes parents and brothers go out, he goes to the next door neighbour and sees the girl and she tackles him and was like who are you and he is like my name is Luke and im a shadow child and she lets go of him and say's hi my name is Jen and im a shadow chid too, and so than everyday he goes to her house, and once Jen showed Luke a computer and luke is like don't go on it the population police will see you on it and Jen is like don't be so silly they wont and Luke is just like ok, and so when they got on the computer Jen showed Luke these other shadow child on the computer chat, and Jen is just like thier comming to the rally with me and stuff. So everyday Jen always talks about going to the rally and be free but Luke doesn't want to be in her dangrous plans because he knew he would die, so he didn't go but Jen kept pushing him to go but he still didn't go so Jen is just like your making a big mistake your going to be free and stuff but he said no still, and so than they get in a fight and Jen goes to the rally with her friends and uses her moms car to go to the rally. The next morning when Luke wakes up he first went to Jens house their was nobody their, so he goes on the computer to see if the other shadow childs were on but they weren't so he got very very very worried about her, later when Luke was going to get up and leave he heard a sound and said; who are you get up slowly and turn around I have a gun, Luke slowly turned around with fright and they guy is like who are you with his gun pointed at Luke, so Luke tells hes name to him and says im Jens friend and he kept telling him quesions so then he says, I'm Jens dad, Lee Grant. So they kept talking and talking and Luke is just like where is Jen, and so he turns his head and says shes DEAD in a harsh voice so Luke is just like what and he got all sad and was about cry, than he says I'm a population police, than Luke picks up the gun and poins it at him and than, Lee Grant says, no the good kind so Luke slowly puts the gun down. Later Jens dad tells Luke that the population police is after you know because they saw you on the computer and Luke gets all scared but than he tells Luke that he will make fake I.D's for him so than Luke is just like you'll do that for me and he says yes. Later the population police come to their house and says open the door, and Jens dad told Luke to hide in a closet so he did and the population police came inside their house but they didn't find Luke so they left but they put a chip on Jens dad so Jens dad and Luke had to write everything instead of talking so later Luke goes home and tells his family everything and they got upset so for his punishment they put him in puplict school so than Jens dad picks Luke up and takes Luke out to explore the world and he gives Luke his fake I.D. What I liked about this book was that it was very suspence because thie are alot of shocking things. The most exciting part was that Luke can now explore the world and not have to be a shadow child again. The most interesting part was that how Jens dad made Luke fake .I.D's. The most funny part was that Jen went shopping and doesn't like dresses like what girl doesn't like dresses. The most confusing part was that how does Luke go to Jens house because like don't they lock their door. How I felt when i read this book was like crying when Jen died because it feels like I know her and meet her, and shes just like my bestfriend. The connection i made to myself was that sometimes i feel like im a shado child but im not, like when it's raining i have to stay home because to not get a cold and it's so boring to not go out and have fun. The connections I made to the world is that I there are some children who cannot go out and have to stay home all day and cannot have fun like we do. I agree with Ericka because it weird and interesting because it says your only allowed to have two kids because of food shortage and if you have more then two kids they are known a shadow children which is illegal and it's just wrong what their doing. (Farah)

This book is a very suspenseful book taking place in the future, where after a food shortage, the world went into mass panic, and the government turned into a dictatorship. This government is power hungry and wants everything to go their way, so to end the food shortage, they make a population law stating that you can only have 2 children. Meanwhile at a farm in the forest, a mother of two is pregnant with a third child. This is the suspensful story of a third child named Luke, who is used to being free, until government decides to make a whole new community of rich peoples houses, and now Luke is no longer allowed to go outside. One day, he sees another face in the window nextdoor, and eventually he decides to investigate, sending the story into a spiral of suspenful events. I agree with Alex, saying that I would reccommend this to someone who like suspense and adventure, because this book is full of it. Overall this book is really good, but slightly boring in some parts (but what book isn't?).

[Philip]

This book is called Among The Hidden, and its about a 12 year old boy who is a third child and he has to stay into hidding becauze you arnt aloud to have 3 kids. anothe shadow child moves beside him name Jen and they hang out secretly so the population police dont catch them. they both try to fight for freedom to get out of hidding. This book was interesting because its weird how u can only have 2 kids and if you have 3 kids you have to go into hidding and you have to stay in your house and not been seen your not even aloud to go outside because if the population police see you they will take you away from your family. when i read the part about all the 40 3rd children going to the rally and got shot the poplulation police i was sad because they all died. Also when i found out that Jen's dad was apart of the poplulation police but he had a third child i was confused abit because the population police is suppost to find the 3rd children and take them away, but he had a third child aswell. My text to self is that when Luke (shadow child) found out that he was getting neighbours with another shadow child named Jen he was really happy because he didnt know that there were more shadow children. he thought he was the only one, that connects to me because i have met people such as my friends who are just like me they are like my twins and i didnt know that two diffrent people could be so much like eachother. Text to world: i have read a book that was similar to this ine because in the book that i read The Giver Jonas and his community have to stay in the community or they will be killed. This book is Luke is a shadow child and he cant leave his house or he will be caught by the population police and get taken away.(**Fanoula)**

Alrighty. I'm not even gonna read over any of them, because I can almost gauruntee that I disagree with all of them. In my oppinion I thought this was THE MOST boring book ever. People say it has a slow begining, I'm sorry I didn't know that the begining was 20 chapters long. I honestly hate this book, I will never read it again, and if my children have to read it, I will write them a note not to. However I will put some positive feed back into this review. The end was un-believably sad, I almost cried. When Jen died I was so upset, like yeah sure. She was SUPER mean sometimes. But she didn't deserve to die!! I also thought when Luke left was sad. It was oh my goodness. I can't even comprehend it. And when Jen died it totally reminded me of when I lost my friend when he took his life. It was just geez. I loved the ending. **(Bri)**

Among the hidden is about a boy named Luke who is a shadow child. Luke has to stay in hiding because he is a third child. Being a third child is illegal where he lives because the government believes there won't be enough food in the world with too many people.Then Luke meets another shadow child too; named Jen. I thought this book was very boring in the begining, but then it started to get interesting when he met Jen. The ending was really sad when Jen died and Luke had to leave his family. I would recommend this book to people who like suspense, thrilling book. My connection to this book is when my friend moved away so it was sort of like when Jen died. The ending was good because it makes you want to know what happens next to Luke. (Cynthia)

Among the hidden is about a 12 year old boy named Luke and he is a third child in his family so he is a shadow child. A shadow child is a third child in the family and they have to hide from the population police because the government said people are only alowd to have 2 kids and if the population police gets a third child they will be killed. Later on in the book Luke sees another shadow child and her name is jen and Luke goes to her house and they talk and jen shows luke a lot of new things and jen is more free than luke because her parents aren't as strike as luke's and they talk about how the government should let people have more than 2 kids and and shadow children should have freedom and then jen talks about a rally to let the shawdow children free.

Most exiting, interesting, funny, or confusing part: How I felt when I was reading:
 * I agree with farah that the most exiting part of the book was at the end because now Luke can explore the world without worrying about the population police but he can't see his parents again.
 * The most saddest part was when Jen's dad told Luke that Jen was dead I was so shocked becasue it just came out of no where and I was really sad
 * The most interesting part of the book was when the population police came to Jen's house and Luke was hiding in the closet and they opened it but didn't see him and then they went and I think that was Luke's worst nightmare.
 * How I felt when I read this book was not a lot of emotion's but in some parts yes than my other book I read it was called the Giver I had a lot of emotion's in it. When jen's dad told Luke that jen died that was the most saddest part I felt really sad and a lot of emotions and when he had to leave his family and get a fake ID because the populalion police might catch him I really felt sorry for his family especially for his mom because they are taking away your child becasue they might be killed so luke when to another place and his mom couldn't even say I love you becaue Jen's dad had a bug on him and the government might hear them and a question I had was will Luke be able to visit his family again.

Connections I had:
 * My text to self connection is when jen's mom is off of work she takes Jen shopping and jen's mom loves shopping she would drive far to get a really good bag but jen doesn't like shopping at all and she would rathur stay home and hide but me and my mom love shopping we go when we can and it is really fun to shop and but lots of stuff
 * My connection to text to the world is in the book there are thousands of shadow children hiding from the population police and government and there are millions of children of poor countries that children aren't alownd to go outside or go to school

Overall I did like the book and I would recomend it to people who like fantasy but with a mix I would give this book a 4 out of 5 because it has a lot of boring partsbut then it has intense intersting parts. =(Shabnam)=

how i felt when i read was that thier was a lot of emotions but i have read a lot of other types of books that have more emotions but in over all it was a good book i really enjoyed it i would recomend it to people who like scary books and for people who like books about shadow children and it was also about a boy and girl that meet about half way through the book and then the girl goes on a rally and then during the rally she got shot and died and then luke tried to get ahold of jen and then he couldn't get ahold of here and he went in side her house and then he almost got shot by jens dad. I made a connection when lukes mom was reading him books and i made a connection to that because i remember when my mom would read me books befor i go to bed. (trent)