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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Twelve-year old Luke Garner is pretending to be the filthy-rich city boy Lee Grant at Hendricks School for Boys. He is an illegal third child and the Population Police is out to get him and all illegal children. After coming out of hiding for the first twelve years of his life, can he blend in? The books his family had him read did not prepare him for this. Children are rocking themselves back and forth and others are avoiding eye contact. Still, others seem to be "normal". One day he discovers a secret door to the woods, the "outside". He also overhears the meeting of the "exnays or fonrols". They are normal boys with fake names and fake IDs, like him! There is something going on in this school and he's going to find out about it. He discovers that Scott or Jason or whatever his name is, has a sinister secret of his own. What can he do to save himself and all the other exnays? My sympathy goes out to Luke or Lee as he transitions from hiding and into the world. I like how the author hooks you with the suspense to keep you reading. I could not put the book down as I kept on wishing he is not discovered every time I turn the page! (  ) RoDor | Jul 23, 2009 |  Since reading the first in this series, I have to read all of the books now. This story continues its exciting saga following the next step for one of the shadow children. I again read this in one seating. Lots of suspense and twists and turns but mostly it is about very real human issues. sroeck | May 14, 2009 | This sequel to "Among the Hidden" follows Luke to an odd boarding school, where he struggles to behave in accordance with his new identity, having almost no experience dealing with people outside of his immediate family. This book was not as good as the first book in the series, but I still enjoyed it reading it. (  ) espertus | Mar 12, 2009 | All his life, Luke Garner has had to live in fear and hiding. He is a third child, an illegal by the passing of the Population Law. Knowledge of his existence spells his death and the death of all who tried to protect him. Luke’s dead best friend Jen Talbot’s dad manages to get him a fake I.D. Suddenly he can be out in the world, mingling among others as Lee Grant, a Baron who had actually died in a skiing accident. At Hendricks School for Boys, a terrified Luke tries to adjust to life among other people. He is afraid all the time of someone finding out that he is a third child, and yet doesn’t want to forget his real identity, either. One day, Luke finds a mysterious door in the wall and escapes outside school confines, only to discover that the whole entire school is windowless. This sets of a chain of events involving other third children and Luke’s own growing sense of self-confidence, awareness, and knowledge. However, not everyone is who they seem, and Luke must be extremely careful…or else the imposter among them will betray them all. AMONG THE IMPOSTERS consists mostly of Luke trying to adjust to life in society. While it’s perhaps not as exciting as the first in the series, this book is a chillingly convincing story of societal adjustment, and it will only involve readers ever more into this eerie and complex world. (  ) stephxsu | Dec 5, 2008 | This book was about Luke having a fake I.D. and going to a baron school. He is able to find a group of shadow children that are in his school. Later on one of the shadow children "Jason" is working for the populaction police, but Mr. Talbot (Jen's dad) was able to arrest him and confuse the other officer that he is lieing. ( ) jreams10 | Oct 9, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0689839049, Hardcover)It was awful. All those eyes, all looking at him. It was straight out of Luke's worst nightmares. Panic rooted him to the spot, but every muscle in his body was screaming for him to run, to hide anywhere he could. For twelve years?his entire life?he'd had to hide. To be seen was death. "Don't!" he wanted to scream. "Don't look at me! Don't report me! Please!"But the muscles that controlled his mouth were as frozen as the rest of him. The tiny part of his mind that wasn't flooded with panic knew that that was good -- now that he had a fake I.D., the last thing he should do was act like a boy who's had to hide. But to act normal, he needed to move, to obey the man at the front and sit down. And he couldn't make his body do that, either.-- from Among the Impostors Luke Garner is terrified. Out of hiding for the first time in his life, he knows that any minute one of his new classmates at Hendricks School for Boys could discover his secret: that he's a third child passing as the recently deceased Lee Grant. And in a society where it's illegal for families to have more than two children, being a third child means certain death at the hands of the dreaded Population Police. His first experience outside the safety of his home is bewildering. There's not a single window anywhere in the school; Luke can't tell his classmates apart (even as they subject him to brutal hazing); and the teachers seem oblivious to it all. Desperate to fit in, Luke endures the confusion and teasing until he discovers an unlocked door to the outside, and a chance to understand what is really going on. But to take this chance -- to find out the secrets of Hendricks -- Luke will need to put aside his fears and discover a courage that a lifetime in hiding couldn't thwart. Once again, best-selling author Margaret Peterson Haddix delights her fans with this spine-tingling account of an all-too-possible future. Among the Impostors is a worthy companion to Among the Hidden and a heart-stopping thriller in its own right. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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