Among the Hidden is the book I read for this book report. It has 153 pages and it is fiction. The book takes place on a farm over a one-year time period from late summer to late spring. We don't know the exact year, but it is sometime in the future. It is here in the US, but it just doesn't seem like it could be since things happen in the book that just don't seem imaginable to us.
The story is about a boy named Luke. He is a shadow child. A shadow child is a third (or even more) child in a family that must stay hidden because it was against the population law to have more than two children. The government thought there was too little food for everyone; therefore, they made this population law. If a third child was found, they would be shot on the spot. This is why Luke stayed hidden in the attic; it was too dangerous to come out and risk being seen. Luke had two older brothers that got to go to school and play with their friends. He would watch them go off to school everyday......
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