- Science fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8
Twelve-year old Luke Garner struggles with his life as a shadow child, until he meets his daring new neighbor, Jen. Among the Hidden is a 1998 young adult novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix concerning a fictional future in which overly drastic measures have been taken to quell overpopulation. It is the first of seven novels in the "Shadow Children" series.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Red Fox, RecordedBooks, Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781428149694
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“He saw the first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance.”
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