New Releases by Margaret Peterson Haddix

"Enough games," the man said, raising the gun yet again. "And enough of the Population Police, I say." This time he cocked the gun and aimed carefully. This is real, Luke thought. This is really going to happen. "No, don''t!" he screamed. Luke Garner is a third-born in a restrictive society that allows only two children per family. Risking his life, he came out of hiding to fight against the Population Police laws. Now, in the final volume of Margaret Peterson Haddix''s suspenseful Shadow Children series, Luke inadvertently sets off a rebellion that results in the overthrow of the government. The people are finally free. But who is in charge now? And will this new freedom be everything they had hoped? With all of the plot twists and excitement Haddix''s fans have come to expect, Among the Free brings the Shadow Children sequence to a chilling conclusion.

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In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family''s farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix. Luke has never been to school. He''s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend''s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He''s lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family''s farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl''s face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he''s met a shadow child like himself. 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?

"Everything that had happened to Nina was real. She had real handcuffs on her wrists, real scars on her back, real fear flooding her mind. "''They''re going to kill me,'' Nina whispered, and it was almost a relief to finally, finally give up hope." In a society that allows no more than two children per family under penalty of death, third children are forced into hiding, or to live with false identity papers. In Among the Impostors, Nina Idi was arrested for treason for supposedly trying to trick the Population Police into arresting other students she said were illegal third children. Now she faces torture or death -- unless she agrees to betray three other imprisoned third children. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets the prisoners -- who are only ten, nine, and six. As she did so brilliantly in the Publishers Weekly best-selling Among the Hidden and in Among the Impostors, Margaret Peterson Haddix once again brings readers to a world in which nothing is as it seems -- a world in which an imprisonment leads to an adventure of mind, body, and spirit.

Danger continues to loom over Luke now that he''s out of hiding in the second book in bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix''s Shadow Children series. Luke Garner is an illegal third child. All his life has been spent in hiding. Now, for the first time, Luke is living among others. He has assumed a deceased boy''s identity and is attending Hendricks School for Boys, a windowless building with cruel classmates and oblivious teachers. Luke knows he has to blend in, but he lives in constant fear that his behavior will betray him. Then one day Luke discovers a door to the outside. He knows that beyond the walls of Hendricks lie the secrets he is desperate to uncover. What he doesn''t know is whom he can trust -- and where the answers to his questions may lead him...

Janie''s family moved to a new neighborhood. She found all the children there were richer than she was, but she learned money isn''t that important.

Fifteen-year-old Ella finds Prince Charming''s proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette. So she plots to escape in a retelling of Cinderella''s story.

When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it''s up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.

SHADOW CHILDREN Luke has never been to school. He''s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend''s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He''s lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family''s farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl''s face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he''s met a shadow child like himself. 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?