Book review Among the hidden

Margaret Peterson Haddix' Among the hidden is the first book in the Shadow Children series. Luke a twelve year-old boy whose very existence is forbidden because he is a third child and the government law only allows 2 children per family. He is forced to hide in his windowless room when the government replace the wood behind his home with an expensive housing development. And one day, while looking through the window of a neighbour house, Luke sees another third child. He bravely escapes from home and knows Jen, a third child who has connection with a lot of another third children in the country via internet. When Jen and a lot of other third children are murdered during a rally to confront the president, Jen's father, a baron, discovers him and help Luke to have in new life. He vows to do it for Jen and other unlucky third children.

It is a thoughtful interesting story. Margaret Peterson Haddix has aims at one possible not-so-distant future ~ and it impacts on the human inner spirit.