Once again, best-selling author Margaret Peterson Haddix delights her fans with this spine-tingling account of an all-too-possible future. But to take this chance - to find out the secrets of Hendricks - Luke will need to put aside his fears and discover a courage that a lifetime in hiding couldn't thwart. There's not a single window anywhere in the school Luke can't tell his classmates apart (even as they subject him to brutal hazing) and the teachers seem oblivious to it all.ĭesperate to fit in, Luke endures the confusion and teasing until he discovers an unlocked door to the outside, and a chance to understand what is really going on. His first experience outside the safety of his home is bewildering. And in a society where it's illegal for families to have more than two children, being a third child means certain death at the hands of the dreaded Population Police. Out of hiding for the first time in his life, he knows that any minute one of his new classmates at Hendricks School for Boys could discover his that he's a third child passing as the recently deceased Lee Grant. And he couldn't make his body do that, either. But to act normal, he needed to move, to obey the man at the front and sit down. The tiny part of his mind that wasn't flooded with panic knew that that was good - now that he had a fake I.D., the last thing he should do was act like a boy who's had to hide. "Don't look at me! Don't report me! Please!" But the muscles that controlled his mouth were as frozen as the rest of him. For twelve years his entire life he'd had to hide. Panic rooted him to the spot, but every muscle in his body was screaming for him to run, to hide anywhere he could. It was straight out of Luke's worst nightmares.
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