Among the Hidden

Children's Family Life Books

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family’s farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix.Luke has never been to school. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an ov….Read More

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