Since the earliest days of my book podcast, I‘ve been hearing requests for an episode about Margaret Peterson Haddix‘s AMONG THE HIDDEN. Today, you get it! Author Claire Ahn joins me on Episode 273 for a thoughtful conversation about this first book in the Shadow Children series and the many eerie ways in which it still feels relevant today. 🖤 listen at the link in my bio!
so-soPopulation laws are in effect, families are not supposed to have more than two children, and the ‘illegal‘ third (and fourth) siblings become the hidden. I don‘t know if I‘ll teach this one or not, but it would make a great choice for a Lit Circle option.
pickIn 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 overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow
pickHe had no friends, no birthdays, no nothing he lived in the forest the only thing he knows what to is hunt dink and hide.
“Hope doesn‘t mean anything… action is the only things that counts.”
𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘹 - 𝘈𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯
pick★★★★☆
I loved the concept of this book. The storyline was creative and the characters were charming. It was also a really quick read, but I thought that it might be better suited for a younger audience since the vocabulary wasn‘t especially challenging. Great idea, just wasn‘t really for me.
pickThird time reading this book and it never disappoints! Just a quick read to get my reading goal started! Now I‘m to book 2!
#ShadowChildren #Haddix #NewGoals
“He had forgotten what fresh air felt like, filling his nostrils and lungs. It felt good.”
Starting 2022 off right! Reading one of my favorite books from middle school. Didn‘t realize it was a series back then, and once I did I put it on my Christmas wish list. I have the best mother-law for gifting it to me. #ReadingInTheNewYear #comfortreads #seriesjunky #Haddix #ShadowChildren
