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Among the Betrayed, 3 - (Shadow Children) by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Hardcover)

Among the Betrayed, 3 - (Shadow Children) by  Margaret Peterson Haddix (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Nina Idi has been arrested for falsely accusing some classmates of being illegal third children--a capital crime in their society. Now she is being asked to betray others--or risk being executed.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Everything that had happened to Nina was real. She had real handcuffs on her wrists, real scars on her back, real fear flooding her mind. <br> 'They're going to kill me, ' Nina whispered, and it was almost a relief to finally, finally give up hope. <br> In a society that allows no more than two children per family under penalty of death, third children are forced into hiding, or to live with false identity papers. In <i>Among the Impostors, </i> Nina Idi was arrested for treason for supposedly trying to trick the Population Police into arresting other students she said were illegal third children. Now she faces torture or death -- unless she agrees to betray three other imprisoned third children. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets the prisoners -- who are only ten, nine, and six. <br> As she did so brilliantly in the Publishers Weekly best-selling <i>Among the Hidden</i> and in <i>Among the Impostors, </i> Margaret Peterson Haddix once again brings readers to a world in which nothing is as it seems -- a world in which an imprisonment leads to an adventure of mind, body, and spir

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