Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Shadow Children: Among the hidden / Margaret Peterson Haddix. - New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, c1998, 2000. - 153 p. ; 19 cm. + 1 reader's guide - Shadow children ; Bk. 001 . - Shadow children ; Book 1 .

"First Aladdin Paperbacks edition March 2000"--T.p. verso.

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

Suggested for grades 5 to 8.

ISBN: 0689824750 0689824750 (pbk.) : 0689824750 (pbk.) 0613236181 9780689824753 9780689824753 (pbk.) 9780756905538 0756905532

LCCN: 97033052 /AC

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Science fiction.
Family
Population policy
Totalitarianism
Identity
Easy Reading.
Fiction

LC Class. No.: PZ7.H1164 / Am 2000 PZ7.H1164 / Am 2000 PS3558.A31189 / A7476 2000t PZ7.H1164Am 1998