Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes)

Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: To conclude her bestselling Shadow Children series, Haddix revisits Luke Garner, an illegal third-born in a futuristic society that allows only two children per family.Ĭlick for more in this series: Shadow Children Books Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Readers will be captivated by Luke’s predicament and his reactions to it.Contributor(s): Haddix, Margaret Peterson (Author) “As in Haddix’s Running Out of Time (S & S, 1995), the loss of free will is the fundamental theme of an exciting and compelling story of one young person defying authority and the odds to make a difference. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows–does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to? Finally, he’s met a shadow child like himself. Then, one day Luke sees a girl’s face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. He’s lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family’s farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an overnight. Series fans and newcomers alike will devour this whole.” “ The brisk, efficient pacing facilitated by occasionally abrupt plot turns is precisely what has cemented Haddix’s strong following among both avid and reluctant readers. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy? But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, he has no idea whom he can trust, and he’s mourning the loss of his friends Percy and Alia. There, among his most feared enemies, Matthias encounters Nina, another illegal third-born, who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. Young Matthias finds himself caught in the cross fire between the Population Police and the rebels–and unwittingly ends up saving the life of a Population Police officer.īy way of reward, the officer takes Matthias to the luxury of Population Police headquarters to train him to become one of their own. The Population Police are gaining more and more power, and illegal third-borns are in increasing danger.

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