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Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1)

By: Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers : March 2000

Seller ID: 677700

ISBN-13: 9780689824753

Binding:Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

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 overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the...
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Sent

April 24, 2013

Picking up right where the previous book left off, Sent kicks off the actual time traveling portion of the series by stranding viewpoint character Jonah and his friend, Chip, in the 15th century. See, Jonah and Chip (and about thirty other kids) aren't originally from the 21st century. Each of them was born in another time, and whisked away as "endangered" children to be adopted in the future. And now, they're all supposed to be sent back to their original times, to meet their original fates.

This is not the most favorable plan for Chip, or for fellow time-displaced adoptee Alex: they're the missing princes who may or may not have been killed by Richard III, and they've been returned to the night of their disappearance. Naturally, Jonah wants to stop this from happening, and get his friends back to the time they grew up in.

I read the first book in this series some time ago, but I remembered enough to keep up. It helped that this particular book was very, very slow. There's a lot of talking about what's going on around them, in great detail. Not just about the historical subjects, but also about the mechanics and principles of the form of time travel used here. In some respects, that's fine. Haddix has obviously put a lot of thought into her history an