Among the Impostors (Shadow Children Books (Prebound)) [Hardcover]

Margaret Peterson Haddix (Author)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover
• Publisher: Perfection Learning (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756913551
• ISBN-13: 978-0756913557
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #433,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I grew up on a farm outside Washington Court House, Ohio. As a kid, I liked to read a lot, and was also involved in 4-H, various bands and choirs (I played flute and piano), church youth group, the school newspaper, and a quiz-bowl type team. I was pretty disastrous as an athlete, although I did run track one year in high school. After graduating from Miami University (of Ohio), I worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana; a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis; and a part-time community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois, before my first book was published. I've moved around a lot as an adult, having also lived in Luxembourg (during a college semester abroad) and in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. Several years ago, I moved back to Ohio with my husband and kids; we now live in Columbus, Ohio. My husband trains investigative journalists, and my kids are in high school, so there's always a lot going on around our house.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not her best work, but not bad, January 14, 2008

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Among the Impostors (Shadow Children) (Turtleback)

This book is part of the shaddow children series and is targeted towards 5'th-8'th grade. Luke is a shaddow child who has recieved a secret identity. He is sent to a boarding school for troubled kids, maily hidden children. The system of the school is messed up and luke can't find his way around, he consistently gets demerrits, though asfar as luke can tell, they mean nothing. The teachers are innept and can't tell a student from a desk. Luke is bunked with boys that constantly torture him because he is a farmer boy. Looking for something to remind him of home, luke sneaks behind the school and plants a garden. Now luke is cutting all his classes to work his garden, until one day it has been trampled. [spoiler warning] lukes garden was trampled by a group of hidden children who are organizing a rebbelion.[spoiler warning]

Objectional material:
Luke is tortured with humiliation by the boys in his dorm.
Luke always cuts classes
Teachers are porrayed as idiots

1 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What I Thought....Among The Imposters, May 18, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Among the Impostors (Shadow Children Books (Prebound)) (Hardcover)

The title of the book i read was Among The Imposters By Margaret Peterson Haddix. The genre of this book is Mystery. This story takes place in a boys home where all the boys there are supposed to be shadow children. Luke is the shadow child that got taken there by his neighbors because they found him sneaking into their house. Once Luke got to the boys home he did not like it at all. He never knew where any of the rooms were or anything, he was always getting lost. Luke decided that he was going to sneak out into the woods and plant a garden since he had loved the way the fields looked back at his home. Every day closer to night Luke would sneak out into the fields and check on his garden. One day when he went out there to see how the vegetables were doing he had noticed that they were all smashed down, while he was looking at them he heard kids talking when Luke looked over he saw Jackal boy another shadow child standing there. Jackal boy had done it, he had smashed all the vegetables down, Lukes garden was runied for good. I think that this book teaches you a lot about responsibility and how u should listen to what people tell you. If Luke would have listened maybe he would have known where the rooms were that he was trying to find. I think this is a good book and you should read it!