Among the Impostors (Shadow Children) - Softcover

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689839081 ISBN 13: 9780689839085

Publisher: S&S Books for Young Readers, 2002

Synopsis

Danger continues to loom over Luke now that he’s out of hiding in the second book in bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series.

Luke Garner is an illegal third child. All his life has been spent in hiding. Now, for the first time, Luke is living among others. He has assumed a deceased boy’s identity and is attending Hendricks School for Boys, a windowless building with cruel classmates and oblivious teachers. Luke knows he has to blend in, but he lives in constant fear that his behavior will betray him.

Then one day Luke discovers a door to the outside. He knows that beyond the walls of Hendricks lie the secrets he is desperate to uncover. What he doesn’t know is whom he can trust—and where the answers to his questions may lead him...

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of many critically and popularly acclaimed YA and middle grade novels, including the Children of Exile series, The Missing series, the Under Their Skin series, and the Shadow Children series. A graduate of Miami University (of Ohio), she worked for several years as a reporter for The Indianapolis News. She also taught at the Danville (Illinois) Area Community College. She lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio. Visit her at HaddixBooks.com.

Reviews

This sequel to Among the Hidden picks up with Luke finally out of hiding and going to boarding school under an assumed identity. "While Haddix is often able to capture the suspense of her earlier work," wrote PW, "this installment gets mired in too many confusing details." Ages 9-14. (Oct.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: S&S Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689839081
• ISBN 13: 9780689839085
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172