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    <body><![CDATA[Luke is still under the name of Lee Grant, the son of the richest family in the county.  The book starts when the grants send their son Smits to the same school as Luck.  Smits is a stuck up brat and is crule to everyone but Luke. His behavior suprizes every one.  Then the grant ask Luke (Lee) and s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75140704">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A quick and exciting read, but I'm predicting that this will be the last one that any of my students will read in the series if they were not avid readers to begin with.  The multiple levels of duplicity, the amount of brain effort needed to sort out subplots and motives, and the unanswered question...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76357626">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[        The book Among The Baron is about Lee and Smites Grant. Smites is Lee's brother but because Luke took Lees name they aren't really related. Luke has been going to Hendricks School For Boys for 6 months and for the first time he meets Smites. Smites was sent to Luke's school because he has be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66051153">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise is that, due to famine, the president has become a dictator and has passed a law that couples can only have two children. Luke is a third child and lived most of his life in hiding. Several books back, he was given the identity of a legal boy who died. Now this boy's parents regret givin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38401809">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Overview<br/><br/>Luke Garner , a shadow child, lives his life hidden from the outside world for fools of the Population Police (the government who is responsible for the assurance of a low population).  By the fourth book, Luke has lived on the &quot;Outside&quot; and a whole new world opens up t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50808069">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ It's about this time when family's are only allowed to have two or less kids. Yet some people have 3 or more kids. These kids are called shadow children. They are treated as outcasts and almost 100% of the time cruelly put to death. Although this is such a strong harsh law many kids have been getti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74022522">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Margaret Peterson Haddix's <em>Among the Barons</em> is the fourth story in the Shadow Children saga, featuring (as the first two entries, <em>Among the Hidden</em> and <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303472.Among_the_Impostors_Shadow_Children_Book_2_" title="Among the Impostors (Shadow Children, Book 2) by Margaret Peterson Haddix">Among the Impostors</a></em>) Luke, an illegal third child in a near-future society that allows each family only two. In this entry, Luke is thrust out of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35146777">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I finally got to read this, after I'd read the whole rest of the set. I suppose some of the suspence of the story was ruined because of that but I still enjoyed Among the Barons. Margaret is briliant in her writing. The characters are real, they have weaknesses that hinder them and insecuritie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75537226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I still like this series, but I didn't think this one was as good as the first three.  Some things just didn't seem to be answered very clearly, or things happened that were not very believable.  I was getting a little annoyed at the end of the book.  Or maybe I'm just getting tired of the author ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46914900">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This one was somewhat confusing because it really stepped up the level of paranoia/you can't trust anything or anyone.  No one is safe and it had me questioning the loyalties of everyone that Luke/Lee came into contact with.  And the end had me reeling trying to figure out what was really going on. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43795161">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book really touched my heart. This is about a third child and were they live a third child haves to be killed because of there over population. there is this secret school for third children with fake id's. this book makes you wonder are you really that important to anyone. or how would you fee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49135236">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't have anything bad to say about this book.  It was really fun to read and brought more twists on the original plot that I couldn't have predicted.  There are still a lot of holes in the plot, but I've decided that it's because this is one of those &quot;kids save the world&quot; type plots th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77072084">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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