Margaret Haddix’s Among the Hidden is the first of seven books in the Shadow Children Sequence. It begins the story of Luke Garner who is the third child of a poor farming family in a future America that has become a Republocrat dream land, home of the thoroughly cowed. Luke’s most pressing problem is the two-child limit enforced by the Population Police. Other problems stem from the very common tendency for government to want to micromanage every aspect of everyone’s lives. Some lessons that could be learned:
- Don’t believe everything you hear or read.
- The government is often too incompetent to effectively enforce its draconian rules, but don’t count on it.
- Zeal is good, but recklessness will get you killed to no good purpose.
- Develop good habits when you don’t need them, so you’ll have them when you do.
If Claire Wolfe wrote children’s fiction, it might look a lot like this.
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If Claire Wolfe wrote children’s fiction, it might look a lot like this…
Wow, THAT’s an appealing summary!