Among the Hidden

Dorothy Crowell
Title: Among the Hidden
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rate: 10/10
Pages: 153
This book is about a boy named Luke. At the beginning of the story Luke is mad that all the trees around his house get cut down. The reason why is because there is a law that says families cannot have more than two children. Luke is a third child. He use to be able to go outside because he was hidden enough in the trees but now he cannot go outside and he also cannot go near any windows or anything. Luke thinks his family is being a little bit too careful because they are also not letting him eat at the dinning room table with them.
Luke lives up in the attic and one day he found vents that he could look out to see outside. Through those vents he saw lights on next door and it was the middle of the day so he was thinking that meant there was another third child next door. He was able to sneak out of his house and get next door and he was right. He met another girl named Jen who was another third child. The 2 of them set up a system so that they can meet up on days.
One day when Luke went over to Jens house the two of them start talking about what it is like to be a third child. Jen told Luke that she some day is going to go to do a rally with the government and say that they need to change the law. The reason the law is set is because with the amount of people there are and also the amount of food there is it is set so people do not starve. The thing Jen wants to tell the government is that not every family has a kid or if they do they don’t have two children so if some people have three or more kids they will fill in the spaces for the families without kids.
Luke decides not to go to the rally but Jen still does it. She knows some other third children from the computer and she talks them into doing it. The results do not end up how they wanted it.
To find out what happened at the rally you will have to read the book. I really enjoyed it. It is also the beginning of a series.