Among the Impostors
OUT OF HIDING. INTO DANGER. 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...
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OUT OF HIDING. INTO DANGER. 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...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780689839085 (0689839081)
ASIN: 689839081
Pages no: 172
Edition language: English
Series: Shadow Children (#2)
This is the second book of the Shadow Children series. It is about Luke Garner's struggle to survive as an outlawed third child or "shadow child" and his fight against the government. During this book, Luke assumes a new identity as Lee Grant. While under this new identity, he portrays a student at ...
Dostałam ją pod choinkę. Widziałam ją już w Empiku, ale okładka mnie odpychała. Ponieważ nie miałam co czytać, pomyślałam, że dam temu szansę. Na poczatku nie bardzo byłam co do tego przekonana, ale wraz jak akcja sie rozwijała, całkowicie pochłaniałam wyrazy i nawet zdziwiłam się, że to już koniec....
Margaret Peterson Haddix knows how to make me feel for the characters. She did this pretty well in the first book (Among the Hidden), and she does it again in this second book in the Shadow Children series. Among the Imposters once again follows Luke as one of the Shadow Children, those third (or f...
This series continues to surprise me. As the plot presents itself, Luke being sent to a boarding school under the fake name of Lee Grant and facing the loneliness, the complete change of his life, it seems fairly straight-forward. It seems predictable. It seems like nothing really extraordinary.B...
A friend told me that I had been wrongly informed and that Shadow Children indeed is one series rather than a bunch of companion novels. Naturally I couldn't let that pass without consequence, so I immediately picked up the second book in the series.I'd have to say it was just as good as the first o...