Among the Enemy

Margaret Peterson Haddix

2005 • 214 pages

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Average rating3.9

HIDE OR FIGHT?

Matthias, an illegal third child, is caught in the cross fire between rebels and the Population Police. When he unwittingly saves a Population Police officer, Matthias is brought to Population Police headquarters to train as an officer himself. There he meets Nina, another third-born who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, and he has no idea whom he can trust. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy?

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7 primary books

#6 in Shadow Children

Shadow Children is a 7-book series with 7 released primary works first released in 1998 with contributions by Margaret Peterson Haddix.

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Sam Messer

Entertaining but annoying.

I understand that Matthias and Percy and Alia were raised by a religious man and he taught his beliefs to them but it's ridiculous how much Matthias invokes God. Solid story, but infuriating religious references.

January 18, 2020