With the exception of Luke, and to a lesser extent Jen, the characters here are rather underwritten and the plot jumps around a bit rather than flowing from event to event. She reveals to him that there are many more "Shadow Children" and that she's organizing a march to demand full rights for their kind. Because of their status, she has a computer, fake ID, opportunities to travel into the city, etc. Her father actually works for the government but broke the law anyway. She turns out to be Jen Talbot, the daughter of a "Baron"-the well-to-do segment of society. When the new neighbors move in, he realizes that another family is hiding a third child. This exacerbates the general dissatisfaction's he's felt with the sort of life he's forced to lead.īut a surprise awaits Luke. But now the government is putting in a new development and Luke faces the prospect of not even being allowed outside to help with chores or play with his older brothers. He's been kept hidden for all of his twelve years, which was made easier by their rural circumstances. Luke Garner is the third son of farmers Edna and Harlan, barely scraping by because of bureaucratic food controls. The Population Police enforce the edict-Law 3903-but with the inefficiency we'd associate with statists. This is the first book in a series about a future America where a totalitarian government has responded to a famine hysteria by forbidding anyone from having more than two children.
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