![]() ![]() He contemplates the fate of his old friend Jen Talbot, who is dead. Luke knows he is in trouble and remains in the wilderness, hiding. Luke runs away, and the villagers swarm the officer. ![]() The officer orders Luke to shoot the old woman, but Luke refuses. The villagers are openly resentful of the police, and an old woman openly defies the officer’s orders. Luke is ordered to accompany an officer on a seemingly simple mission to distribute new identification cards to citizens at a remote village. Garner has been undercover working with the police at their stables in the hopes of finding a way to strike a revolutionary blow. Luke Garner, an illegal third child, is awaiting his assignment with the Population Police. The series describes a country where overpopulation and constricted resources have led to drastic measures to reduce the population, most notably the law that any child born to a family with two existing children-the so-called Shadow Children-must be taken into government custody where they are frequently killed. Among the Free is the seventh and concluding novel of the Shadow Children series of dystopian science fiction novels by Margaret Peterson Haddix. ![]()
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