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Among the Enemy (Shadow Children)
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- Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Publisher: Aladdin
- Release Date: August 2006
- Reading Level: Ages 9-12
- ISBN-10: 0689857977
- ISBN-13: 9780689857973
- List Price: $6.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryMatthias, an illegal third child, is caught in the cross fire between rebels and the Population Police. When he unwittingly saves a Population Police officer, Matthias is brought to Population Police headquarters to train as an officer himself. There he meets Nina, another third-born who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, and he has no idea whom he can trust. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy? |
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Among the Enemy
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This is for my 14 year old daughter she loves all of Margaret Haddix books. I love writers that can hold a child's intrest, and she does hold her in a dfferent world, also can tell she enjoys the books because she shares things that happen in the story line.
Among the Enemy
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Among the Enemy Margret Peterson Haddix is a suspenseful fiction book that from the second you open the book and start reading you are fascinated and amazed by the struggles these children must go through just to survive.
Matthias a fairly young boy must help his two best friends after one was bashed in the head in the head by a tree branch when the bus they were riding in crashed and the other has been shot in the leg and has lost a lot of blood as has his other friend. Matthias has to be brought to the police headquarters where he becomes a member of the force to try to help his friends and keep them from dieing.
The rigorous and dangerous activities he has to do just to save his friends without being found out goes all the way to kissing one of his friends that works at the headquarters to convince the guards that they weren't making a plan on how to save his friends.
This book is an unforgettable book that grips you to where you will never want to put it down and I would definitely recommend this book to people at the age of 11+ only because of some of the language and ideas given in this book. I encourage you to read this novel and tell others about it.
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Are you the third child in the family? If you are you should read this book. Matthew, Percy and Alia were sleeping when someone knocked on the door. It was the police Matthew, Percy and Alia were taken by the police. Will they escepe from the evil country? Find out in this book and what happens to Matthew, Percy and Alia. Recommended for the third child in the family. Read it now! by Anthony
Among the Enemy
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The end is in sight for Luke and the gang in Haddix's second-to-last installment of her popular Shadow Children series, Among the Enemy.
Among the Enemy focuses on Matthias, a third child who befriended Nina Idi in the third book of the series, Among the Betrayed. Matthias and his friends Percy and Alia have since spent their time comfortably at Niedler School. That is until the Population Police raid the school and ship it's students away to work for them. In route to Population Police headquarters, there's an accident, and Percy and Alia are severely injured. Matthias hides his injured friends in a cabin that was previously occupied by Rebels. Matthias soon discovers that the cabin is not as secluded as he thought it was, and before he knows it, he is forced into saving a highly regarded Population Police official and is whisked away to headquarters. Once back at headquarters, Matthias is treated like a hero, but can't escape the fact that his friends were left behind. How will he get back to them? How will they survive without him? And who is that familiar looking girl serving food in the cafeteria?
Haddix's series has become immensely popular with middle school students because of their quick pace and interesting plot twists. While this book has all of that and is definitely a step up from the previous book in the series, Among the Brave, I can't help but feel as if something is wrong. The storyline seems forced, the plot twists are foreshadowed well in advance, and she's skimpy on character development. It's almost as if Haddix has fallen behind on a timeline to finish this series.
There are some great things in this book though. Series fans will certainly be able to feel the tides changing and not in favor of the Population Police. Most of the Population Police officers we meet are not so much fighting for the cause as they are fighting for food. Most of the officers are young boys sent by their families in promise of food. This has turned out to be a great recruitment tool for the Population Police, strengthening their numbers, but will without a doubt, eventually backfire. These boys are not trained soldiers. These boys are not killers. These boys are hungry, nothing more, and Haddix paints this picture very well.
I really did enjoy the first four books of the series, but I've been a little disappointed in the last two. My fifth grade students still love them so maybe it's just me. Maybe they're not living up to the potential I saw in them. If you are a series regular, you obviously have to check the book out for yourself. However, I can't help but feel relief that there's only one book left in the series and I wouldn't be surprised if Haddix shared that relief. She's a talented author with some truly original ideas, I'm just losing interest in this particular idea. Here's hoping she can end the series on a high note.
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The population police stormed through the door and woke up everybody in the dorm. Percy awoke from his deep sleep when an officer shook him and grabbed out of bed while saying" The country is in need of our service now. Get up and get in the vans parked outside or else." This is just one of the extraordinary scenes from Margaret Peterson Haddix book Among the Enemy. This book is about three kids named Percy, Alia, Nina, and Matthis who are captured by the population police, but then escaped into the woods. The population police are hired by the government to kill every third-born to keep down the population. Then of course they get captured again and Matthis is sent to be trained while the others are on duty as a guard. Will Matthis escape from the population police headquarters, will his friends make it out alive, or will the government kill all the third-borns? I recommend this book for all readers you like adventure and mystery.
One reason I liked this book was because it had many unexpected twist. When the kids where captured by the population police, to stop the car they it with a nail and made the car hit the tree. Another example of this was when Matthis saved on officers life even though they are his enemies. One last example was when Alia almost died when a tree hit her. This is one reason why I liked the books.
Another reason I liked this book was because of the good use of descriptive writing. When the author was describing the way Alia looked and felt after She got hit by the tree. Another example was when she described the way the headquarters looked on the inside and outside. She made it feel like you were as if you were standing in front of the house and inside the house. One last example was when the kids were running away from the police, and the author described what was going in through each of their heads. This is another example why I liked the book.
One reason why I didn't like the book was it had too many cliff hangers. It did this between almost every chapter. It was too much of a good thing. Some examples were when the chapter would be very short and some what insignificant and it would take two or three chapter to finish one or two conversations. Another example was when the author left the last chapter wide open for another book. That is one reason why I didn't like the book.
The best reason why I liked the book was because of the descriptive writing. It made you feel like you were in the book. There was also good use of figurative. The author made the book come to life. If you like books with adventure and mystery, than this is the book for you to read.
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