She also wrote Into the Gauntlet, the tenth book in the 39 Clues series. Dunphrey Leaving Fishers Just Ella Turnabout Takeoffs and Landings The Girl with 500 Middle Names Because of Anya Escape from Memory Say What? The House on the Gulf Double Identity Dexter the Tough Uprising Palace of Mirrors Claim to Fame the Shadow Children series and the Missing series. She has since written more than 25 books for kids and teens, including Running Out of Time Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Before her first book was published, she worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis and a community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois. She graduated from Miami University (of Ohio) with degrees in English/journalism, English/creative writing and history. Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm near Washington Court House, Ohio. 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? Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself.

Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. 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. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix Cliff Nielsen (Illustrator) 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.

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