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 : Among the Enemy (Shadow Children)

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780689857973
ISBN: 0689857977
Label: Aladdin
Manufacturer: Aladdin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: August 22, 2006
Publisher: Aladdin
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Studio: Aladdin




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Product Description:
HIDE OR FIGHT?


Matthias, 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?



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Among the Enemy
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.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Among the Enemy
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 ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Cool Book
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



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Among the Enemy
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 ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Among the Enemy
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 ... Read More







 






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