Margaret Peterson Haddix, the author of twenty five plus novels including the Shadow Children Series sequence, the Missing series, Turnabout, and The Girl With 500 Names, grew up in the small town of Washington Court House, Ohio as a middle child. Haddix, the daughter of a nurse and farmer, always reading, always writing, knew...
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“Dad thinks-I mean, it`s not safe anymore to have you in the kitchen. You can still eat with us, and talk to us and all, but you`ll be… over here.” The government created a law, stating there are only allowed to be two children per family. Any others must be killed by the population...
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Luke, twelve years old, has never had a friend other than his two brothers. This is because he is one of the shadow children. In the town that Luke and his family live in, families are only aloud to have two children. If families illegally have more than two children, the third child is...
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