While the Grants belong to the highest class of society called the Barons, Luke avoids snobbish affectations and befriends his classmates, who are also illegal thirds.

Among the Barons – Luke Garner is finally adjusting to his new life at Hendricks School as Lee Grant.

But when their food supply runs out, Nina seeks the boy she knew as Lee. Nina sees a chance to escape the prison and, taking the prisoners with her, quickly discovers their street smarts. Her interrogator gives her an ultimatum: either she can get three other child prisoners, illegal third-borns like Nina, to reveal who harbored them and where they got their fake identification cards, or she will be executed.

Among the Betrayed – Nina is falsely accused of treason and imprisoned by the Population Police.

What he doesn’t know is whom he can trust - and where the answers to his questions may lead him… He knows that beyond the walls of Hendricks lie the secrets he is desperate to uncover. Then one day Luke discovers a door to the outside. Now, he has assumed a deceased boy’s identity and is attending Hendricks School for Boys, a windowless building with cruel classmates and oblivious teachers. Among the Impostors – Luke Garner is an illegal third child.Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows - does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to? Finally, he’s met a shadow child like himself. Then, one day Luke sees a girl’s face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an overnight. Among the Hidden – Luke has never been to school.After meeting Jen Talbot, the third child and only daughter of his affluent new neighbors, the Talbots, Luke begins to question his status as a third child and the world he lives in. He has two older brothers, Matthew and Mark. The story begins with Luke Garner, the third child of a farmer who has lived most of his life hidden in his house. It is against the law for families to have more than two children the law is strictly enforced by the Population Police, killing or imprisoning “shadow children,” any child born after his or her first two siblings.

Written by American author Margaret Peterson Haddix, Shadow Children is a book series set in a dystopian country where the government has enforced strict population control laws in order to control overpopulation after environmental conditions have severely limited resources, particularly food. What is the Shadow Children series about? When being the third child in the family makes you illegal. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.

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