Among the Betrayed
Written by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Narrated by John Kroft
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About this audiobook
Nina Idi—a third child in a society where families are allowed only two children—has been betrayed by the boy she loved, and arrested by the Population Police for exposing other alleged third children. Angry and confused, Nina knows only one thing for sure: She is innocent of the charges.
But now she is faced with the most difficult choice of her life: Get three other prisoners to admit they are shadow children and be spared herself, or refuse to cooperate and be killed.The options are clear. The choice, Nina discovers, is not. …
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 stars5/5It was epic. I loved the ending when epic Mc epic chilled on the Jake Paulers.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Couldn't put it down! Haddix moves her lens to Nina from the last book and into the Population Police's prison. Effectively explores issues of trust and betrayal in a way any reader can understand, and even makes the reader question the validity of circumstantial evidence. Highly recommended to middle school students who have read the first two.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is a story told well. It is very interesting because there is always action and suspense. It is very detailed and you can picture the images in your head. I also "felt" the characters feelings because there are parts that are well described.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is book 3 of the shadow kid series. It was very interesting. Nina, a shadow child, gets arrested and then finds out to live she has to betray 3 little kids. Instead she takes the kids and escapes. With the constant fear of being captured, they hide. I think everyone will like this book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was great. It was a quick and thrilling read that held my interest from cover to cover. This series is great, and would entice any reluctant reader.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great book in the series. Well written
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal "third-born" children, or facing death.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is about Nina being arrested from the populaction police and being said as a trater. Later on they make a deal with her, she has to be able to reveal Matthias', Percy's and Alia's real name. She would have to betray them in oder to live, but doesn't. An officer gets poisoned and his keys fell on the ground and Nina got them. She gets Matthias, Percy and Alia to escape. Then they find Lee and Trey still at Handrix in the woods, and they allow them to be in their club for safety.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Among the Betrayed is part of the Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson. The main character in this science-fiction drama is a young girl named Nina. She is captured by the Population Police and forced to make a decision between saving her life and destroying three others. A strength of the book is Nina's character development through the difficult decisions she must make. Students might find themselves connecting with her character and the other three characters she tries to save. Some of the events, like Nina's escape from prison, seem implausible at first thus requiring a little extra effort on the part of the educated reader. However, the book series has been a popular with students in my 10th grade English class. The diction and style are less complex so that struggling readers have been able to digest the material. This novel would work great along novels like Brave New World and 1984.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5it was great i felt soo bad for the chick... but it all turned out for the better.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was an interesting book. It keeps the reader guessing. Very suspenseful.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thirteen year old Nina is a Shadow Child. After hiding for years in a house with her three aunts and her grandmother, she is presented with a fake I.D. This golden ticket allows her to assume a new identity, stop hiding and no longer be seen as illegal. She ends up safe but alone at Harlow boarding school for girls where she believes that all the other students are also Shadow Children. After picking up an intriguing note to discuss “shadows”, she meets with students from Hendricks School for Boys. She is immediately drawn to Jason, the charismatic leader of the boys who says that they should work towards a revolution to change the unfair laws. One frightful day she is arrested by the Population Police and taken to a dungeon. She is shocked to find that the police do not know she is a shadow child, but rather believe she was working with Jason to betray legal children by making it appear that they are third children in order to obtain rewards from the police. They tell her they will kill her unless she acts as a spy on shadow children prisoners to find out their real identities and the names of those who helped hide them. She is to gain their trust and then betray them. With these instructions, the guards toss her back into a cell with ten year old Matthias, nine year old Percy and six year old Alia. Having been betrayed all her life, will Nina now betray others?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nina has been captured by the population police and accused of trying to scam them. She is given a mission to betray them as she was betrayed, but what she doesn’t know is that if she succeeds in betraying them, she will be killed. She is put through an arduous test to find out where her loyalties really lie and she passes.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nina from …Imposters is impriosoned. She is told she can gain freedom by betraying three other children.