This book takes pace in a country where they are going through a great depression. In response to the food shortage due to this depression, the government has put into law that third children are illegal. The enforcement of this law requires the killing or imprisoning these third children or "shadow...
This book was pretty good. The first 25% was a little slow, but after that it was fine. It was somewhat predictable at times and the story wasn't exactly new, but I enjoyed it anyway.Even though it's a rather short book, Luke - the main character - went through a development. I liked him a lot towar...
I chose this book for a couple of group challenges and since I'm a scifi junkie and Dystopia is one of my favorite genres, I thought I would give this one a try. I expected it to be to childish to get any kind of enjoyment out of it, but I was wrong. This is a book for middle grade children, but its...
2.5 stars. The plot was something I never really thought would be addressed in a book series, let alone a MG series. Esp. considering that this goes on in the world today. Population regulation. Children really are being hidden for fear of being found and killed. A terrible business and more people ...
My 12-year-old son (& fellow participant in our year-long reading streak) and I read this book as a break after the very long conclusion to the Harry Potter series. This is the first book in Haddix's six (?) book long series about Luke Garner, an illegal third child in Haddix's dystopian world where...
I read about this book through a "25 Books/Series to read if you love The Hunger Games" list. It sounded fascinating, so I thought I'd give it a try.It's... troubling. A lot darker than I had expected from a childrens book. A quick read and actually a rather thought-provoking one. In some ways it re...
"I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this" . . . I say as I turned every flippin' page!This little novel has surprising power. It deals with a totalitarian government, and though this theme is not uncommon (ESPECIALLY in the YA books of today--by god it's a super fad), the way it's tr...
This was my favorite series as a child, so naturally, I’m really excited to be reading them again. On my way to camp, in the case I finished Lies, I wanted something short to keep me occupied until I got home, and this was the perfect choice. Even now, as a sixteen-year-old, I still love this story ...
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