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Series Title: Shadow Children. Format: Paperback. She then finds out that they killed Jason. Nina gets moved to a cell with Alia, Matthias, and Percy. The population police tell Nina that she has a certain amount of time to figure out the real names of the three children. One day the four of them escape when a prison guard gets poisoned. Someone at the school turns them in. Nina then finds out that the whole thing was fake and a test to see if Nina was trustworthy.
One major theme in this book is trust. Percy, Matthias, and Alia have to be able to trust Nina to tell them their secrets. Another theme would be survival. Nina and the kids have to learn to survive off of little to no food and when they do get food it is moldy or stale. They also have to learn to survive after escaping from the prison when they are out on their own.
I would recommend this book to any junior high or high school boy or girl that loves to read action books. This book definitely was filled with action and suspense. I really enjoyed reading this book. Mar 03, Luke Sands rated it really liked it. Personal Response I thought this book was good.
I liked it mostly because it had a really good story line. I thought it was good, because it usually had some action. Another reason I liked this book was because every character changed so much throughout the book. Plot Among The Betrayed was about a girl, named Elodie, who was a third child.
She lived with her aunts at the start. Harlow was a school for third Personal Response I thought this book was good. Harlow was a school for third children. While she was there, she met a boy named Jason. Nina really liked Jason, but then he betrayed everyone and turned everyone in. Then Nina got arrested, and she tried to work with the population police. They asked her to try to get three kids to tell her they were all illegal.
She never could get herself to betray them. She broke them all out of prison. Nina got caught stealing food, and she met Mr. The kids and Mr. Talbot revealed that it was all just a test to see if she was trustworthy. Characterization The main character, Nina, changed quite a bit throughout the book. Nina went from only worrying about escaping to actually caring about the people helping her.
She started thinking about how they will survive. The other kids changed quite a bit also. They started out by just sticking to themselves. Once Nina offered an escape route, they all opened up and started to treat each other like family.
Impacts of the setting This book took place during the modern era. It is based mostly in or around a prison. The setting impacted this book by making Nina try to escape from the population police. The setting required Nina to make life or death decisions, like asking if the other kids wanted to leave the prison with her boarding school. Thematic Connection The main theme of this book was a desire to escape. The whole book was about Nina wanting to escape. It started out with her wanting to escape the population police and be free without any worries.
Then, it changed to her wanting to physically escape the prison. Recommendation I recommend this book to all high school students because the main character is around the same age, and they would relate the most.
The age group this book is intended for is intermediate readers. The book talks about the government controlling the population by only allowing two children per family. If families had any more than two children, they would be executed; so, many families hid the children known as shadow children or exnays. I like how this book was written. The book theme was based on survival. I like how the younger characters knew to use the sun for direction and time.
It was hard to believe that the government would execute innocent children just for being born, but it showed desperate times called for desperate measures. It looked at how people can easily turn their back on others just to protect themselves. It addressed struggles with morals. As the character, Mr. I think this is a good book for young readers. Oct 17, Sarah rated it it was amazing. I really enjoyed this young adult series and it made me look for more books by the author.
Apr 25, Megan Griffin rated it it was amazing. This book was very good. I liked reading the book from Nina's point of view. It had a big, surprise ending! I am excited to see what happens next! Mar 06, Hunter Soerens rated it really liked it. It was a book that I missed in the series. This book was pretty good. There were sometimes when I lost track of things, but otherwise it was pretty good. I liked this book, because it was actioned packed. Plot Trina woke up from a quick nap in her jail cell.
She was dragged out of her school and was brought to the prison. When a man came in, she was told she and another boy were betraying third children. They were also giving pointers to the population police. The hating man gave her a chance to redeem herself. She had to get information from three kids in the prison. She decided to accept the challenge. After two days of living in the jail cell with the other kids, Trina tried to make them talk. They barely talked, and when the hating man got mad at her, she devised a plan to escape.
She and the other three kids escaped the prison and ended up in the woods near Hendricks School for boys. One night Trina was stealing food from the garden at the school. She was caught and dragged to Mr.
She then went back to the kids and told them everything about what had happened. Characterization Trina was a young girl who was a third child in a world where people are only supposed to have two children. She was going to the Harlow school for girls but was taken away and thrown in jail. She later was tested by the Hating Man, who was actually trying to help her. The Hating Man was the head of the prison that Trina was put in, but he was actually a double agent.
He would help the third children, since he actually had one himself. They were also there to guide her on her ways. Setting It started out in the prison where Trina and her friends escaped, so they could go to get good food. It then took a long journey through the woods until they got just outside of Hendricks School for boys where Trina got caught by Lee when she stole food.
She was taken into Mr. This all helps explain what happened and how rough they had it while on their travels. I also think it takes place in the future, because the characters use more high tech gadgets. Recommendation I recommend this book to any gender. Oct 27, Jackie rated it really liked it Shelves: imposters , science-fiction , escapes , tween-fiction , prisoners , gardens , government-resistence , confinement , betrayal.
Imprisoned with three small children, Percy, Matthias, and Alia who are only ten, nine, and six, she is faced with a dilemma. Otherwise, she will be executed. But, can she do it? Can she betray others as she was betrayed to save her skin? When presented with a means of escape, she is forced to make a decision that will affect all their lives: does she escape on her own, knowing the other three children will die, or does she take them with her and hope for the best?
As crucial decisions are made, danger ramps up. Nina meets old acquaintances and meets new people who may or may not factor in her decision. Among the Betrayed gives us more clues in the Shadow Children series, but many questions remain Haddix switches gears here, telling a story that occurred at the end of Among the Impostors and overlaps it. The main character switches to Nina, leader of the thirds at the girls' school, about whom we know next to nothing.
Most of the story occurs in a Population Police Prison. Haddix does a great job of revealing how a situation like a political prison would work, especially when you add intrigue within the prison itself, and the Population Police.
There aren't very many characters most of the Haddix switches gears here, telling a story that occurred at the end of Among the Impostors and overlaps it. There aren't very many characters most of the time, but the author does a good job of making them interact in interesting ways and filling them out into complete people. That's critical in a story where one of the main messages is "people matter" ; Dec 09, Cara Coppolino rated it it was amazing. The Story is about a shadow child named Nina.
She goes to a boarding school, where she discovers other shadow children in hiding too. Nina also meets a boy there named Jason. They fall in love. Everything changed one day when the population police arrested Nina at breakfast. They took her to a prison cell, and interrogated her. Nina found out that they arrested her for "'You and this Jason tried to trick the population police into pa "Among the Betrayed" is a continuation of "Among the Hidden". Nina found out that they arrested her for "'You and this Jason tried to trick the population police into paying you for turning in a bunch of so-called exanys After that, Nina got offered a bribe.
The police said if she got 3 prisoners to admit they were shadow children, she would be set free. Nina had no choice but to agree. I don't want to spoil anything, but the rest of the book is not what you would expect.
My favorite part of this book was when Nina talked about her aunties and Grandma. I would recomend this book to people who like solving mysteries, or people who have a big imagination. Feb 10, Esveydi rated it it was amazing.
I think that Among The Betrayed is a good book because it was my type of genre that I like reading. I thought this was good because in the beginning there was this girl named Nina. She was in jail because there was a rule that the society made that you can have two children and when you had more than two children then they would go to jail.
This is what happens to her because she was the third child to her family and they could've put her in jail for that but instead she made herself a fake I. D I think that Among The Betrayed is a good book because it was my type of genre that I like reading. D which will make her seem that she is an adult. But instead, the boy that she loved betrayed her and turned her into the population police.
Nina had not eaten in days or drank anything in days she had to survive that until she talked about if she is a shadow child and where her family is but she didnt want them gone. The population police had three children that also shadow children and the population police want Nina to talk to them about their family.
But they won't talk because they think that the population police are listening even though Nina has said that they are not. They still don't respond to the questions she asks. Nina still has not gotten anything from the kids and it's been a few days. After all of those days, she hasn't gotten anything so the population police are setting a timer for 24 hours and if she doesn't have anything then they will end up killing her and the three kids.
They decide to escape jail with three kids and when they do Nina goes back to her family and finds out that Jake is not really dead and the population police made up the tape of jake talking about Nina. Afterward, she has changed a lot since she found out that Jason isn't really dead and the population police just wanted her and wanted to kill she changed her name to Jen talbots.
Apr 12, Emma Lauren rated it really liked it. Among the Betrayed by Margaret Peterson Haddix is the third installment of the Shadow Children Series, and rather than following our pre-established main character, Luke Garner, we find ourselves following Nina, another Shadow Child, who was turned into the Population Police, but not for being a Shadow Child - for treason that she did not commit.
She is then given an ultimatum by the head officer: either get three other suspected Shadow Children to confess their identities, or be executed.
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