Oh, and by the way, with all these new homes that cost so much, your taxes have gone up.” You’ll have to stop raising pigs, even if they do bring in a good income. It makes me so angry when the government develops this fancy new subdivision next door to the Garners’ farm, and “ oh, no, none of their new neighbors will want to smell pig manure. Even worse…junk food is outlawed! The next step is enforced vegetarianism! In truth, they want to keep you under …hmmm…sounds like what they’re doing to us now.

A government that tells you how and what to plant, grow, or raise, and doesn’t care if you can make a living at what they tell you. Ugh! This is an awful world they live in. In 2000, Among the Hidden was nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award. In 2002, it won the Pennsylvania Young Readers’ Choice Award for Grades 6–8, and in 2001, it won the Sunshine State Young Readers Award for Grades 6–8 and the California Young Readers’ Medal for Middle School/Junior High.

Explore it on Goodreads or Amazonįirst in the Shadow Children dystopian science fiction series for middle-grade readers and revolving around Luke Garner, a forbidden third child.Īmong the Hidden was nominated for the Bluestem Book Award in 2018. Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddixĭystopian, science fiction in a hardcover edition that was published by Simon & Schuster for Young Readers on Septemand has 153 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.

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