Among the Impostors
Written by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Narrated by John Kroft
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About this audiobook
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 ...
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm in Ohio. She worked as a newspaper reporter and copy editor in Indiana before her first book, Running Out of Time, was published. She has since written more than fifty books for kids and teens, including the Greystone Secrets series, the Shadow Children series, the Missing series, the Children of Exile series, and lots of stand-alones. Haddix and her husband, Doug, now live in Columbus, Ohio, where they raised their two kids. You can learn more about her at haddixbooks.com.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
I love that book was the greatest book of the world M - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I must admit this book left me wanting more. In comparison with the first book in the series this book needed a little more suspense. The overall plot in this book was good and it did she light on how crazy the world can be but as far as suspense goes and keeping the reader interested it was lacking.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Although there are several more books in this series, this one has a complete and satisfying ending so that I don't feel the need to read any more of them; I like that! However, I enjoyed this so much that I'm anxious to keep going.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the second in the Shadow Children series, a dystopian series set in a future in which food is scarce and families are limited to having two children. But not everyone obeys the law, and when families have third children, they must remain hidden from the Population Police. In this second book in the series, we follow Luke Garner's quest to change things for Shadow Children. I won't say much more than that because I don't want to spoil the first book in the series, but suffice it to say that there several plot twists that kept me on the edge of my seat. Luke Garner is a compelling protagonist who grows throughout the book. My fourth grade son read the first book in this series for school, and I'm going to put this one on his TBR stack!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This one took a really long time to get into. I was really disappointed in it for quite some time. But towards the end it got really good,so I'm glad I stuck with it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5a very interesting book that will keep you at the edge of your seat. I couldn't stop reading this book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5this was a very cool book.i would reccomend it to someone who likes her books.my favorite part was when he read the note.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Satisfying sequel to Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors continues to follow third child Luke in his new life as baron's son Lee Grant at the Hendricks School for Boys. Luke/Lee struggles to blend in at this school where there are strict rules but everyone is anonymous, and not even the teachers or staff seem to care. Luke/Lee finds an open door one day, slips out and begins to follow a trail of discovery that may lead him to be found out by the Population Police. Quick, suspenseful and engaging.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Luke's growth in this book seemed a bit radical and out of character for me. I know he's been forced to grow up pretty quickly, but it just didn't seem to mesh well with his experiences and personality.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is book 2 of the Shadow Children series. It is as good as the first one. Luke is at a new school and he meets other kids like himself. But when he finds out one is an imposter he finds himself in more danger than he thought. You really should read this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5These are great books for elementary age students- I am reading the series and I am very impressed!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great for reluctant readers.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Luke Garner has just surfaced from hiding for the first time in his life--as the third child in a society with a population limit of two, his childhood has previously been one of cloistered solitude. Unfortunately, he escapes to a mysterious and windowless boarding school that's as claustrophobic as the world he left behind. The Hendricks school--filled with menacing bullies, detached teachers, and a significant population of mentally unhinged students--is the spooky setting for Margaret Peterson Haddix's second Shadow Children book. As in the first volume, Among the Hidden, this future-world feels well-rendered and realistic, very close to the one that we inhabit today. Haddix's sparse, strong prose remains strong, although this second story does lack some of the urgency of the original.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An awsome book!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All 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.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This 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.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I thought this was a very interesting quick read. I couldn't put it down!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I bought Among the Hidden, I didn't know it has a sequel. But what a good news it was that it has! (wow that kinda rhymes.) Among the hidden is similarly thrilling and interesting. I like the twists that Haddix placed in the plot, although I must say that I liked the first book a bit better. Only a bit, though.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is a book for people who like to read books that have people disobeying laws of government. This is a book about an illegal third child that has stolen the identity of another person that has died. The government has made a law that says you can only have two children because of the food shortage and if you do have a third child and they find out then they will kill it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is very good and I recommend it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quick read. See my review for "Among the Hidden".
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Luke is in a boarding school where he has been sent to adjust, only everthing is strange and he can’t seem to make any friends. When he finally meets up with a group of shadow children things seem to be going well, until he figures out that one is out to betray the others. At the last minute, Mr. Talbot is the one who stops Jason and saves the day.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Luke heads off to boarding school as Lee Grant.