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Among the Hidden

Margaret Peterson Haddix

First published September 1998
Type Novel
Series Shadow Children #1

Luke has never been to school. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family’s farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl’s face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he’s met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows - does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2000 Beehive Book Award Children's Fiction Nominee/Finalist

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1998 Cover Among the Hidden Simon & Schuster Novel
2000 Schattenkinder dtv Novel
March 2000 Cover Among the Hidden Aladdin Paperbacks / Simon & Schuster Novel
April 2001 Cover Amongst the Hidden Red Fox Novel
July 2002 Cover Schattenkinder dtv Novel
September 2004 Cover Shadow Children Aladdin Paperbacks / Simon & Schuster Omnibus
June 2005 Cover Among the Hidden Aladdin Paperbacks / Simon & Schuster Novel
May 2006 Cover Among the Hidden Aladdin Novel
January 2007 Among the Hidden Fitzgerald Books Novel
August 2008 Cover Among the Hidden Paw Prints Novel
October 2008 Cover Among the Hidden Recorded Books Novel
March 2009 Cover Schattenkinder dtv Novel
2011 Cover Among the Hidden Scholastic Novel
October 2012 Cover The Shadow Children, the Complete Series Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Omnibus
2017 Cover Schattenkinder dtv Novel