Margaret Peterson Haddix's 'Among The Brave'

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Among the Brave ‘“Some of them looked like they really might kill someone for asking a question. Or maybe they thought they were about to be killed themselves”.(91) This quote is from the book Among the Brave by Margaret Peterson Haddix that takes place at the Garners house and the population police jail in the future. This book is in a sequel called the shadow children sequence. The Genre of this book is science fiction and the level is 5.1. I chose this book because the first book was a really good story that was interesting and descriptive. Trey is a third child that is on the run from the population police. Trey lived a crazy life as a youngster and he makes a fact that he'd never been outside before

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