| Title | : | Among the Brave (Shadow Children, #5) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0689857950 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780689857959 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 |
| Publication | : | First published May 1, 2004 |
Trey may have saved Luke's life, but he still thinks of himself as a coward who can barely stand to be outdoors. Now Trey finds out Luke has been taken prisoner at Population Police headquarters. Trey is terrified, but he knows that if he doesn't rescue his friend, no one will.
At police headquarters, Trey impersonates an officer to try getting to Luke. But just when it looks like he's close, Trey suddenly finds himself in danger of exposing not just himself but all shadow children.
Among the Brave (Shadow Children, #5) Reviews
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It's been a long time since I read a book in this series, and since it starts immediately following the events in Book #3, I would have appreciated a brief reminder of what had just happened. In any case, Trey has gone to find help following travesty at the Grants, and is almost grabbed along with Mr. Talbot's house as the Population Police arrest him. Trey is no hero, but eventually partners with Mark Garner in order to find his friends, who have been imprisoned. Yet, Trey manages to find the courage to infiltrate the Population Police to save Mark from being executed and then mount a daring rescue of his comrades. I liked this book better than the previous ones: 3.5 stars.
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Among the Brave was an inspirational, thrilling, and action packed novel filled with suspense and drama all at the same time. Not only is the main character a young boy, Trey, but a illegal third child that should not have been born. After living his whole life in hiding, being exposed to the real world mentally impacted Trey. With the government being overthrown, the new military based, monarch takes over everything needed to live and forces control over everyone, even the free people. With crazy government officials out to get every illegal third children, soldiers out on every corner of the streets, and everyone either taken hostage or even killed, Trey deals with the situation smoothly with his high intelligence and fast critical thinking. Can Trey save his other third child friends or will he chicken out at the last minute when they really need him the most? Read the book to find out. :]
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Trey was thinking about Luke, and how brave he was. He wished he could be that brave. But, if you thought about it, he never really got a chance. Until now. Trey is left stranded in front of Mr. Talbot's house as the Population Police rade it. He manages to survive just barly, hidding behind a flower pot until Luke comes for him. But he never does. Now Trey knows that something's up. So, he teams up with a boy named Mark Garner in order to find his friends and save them from the Popualtion Police - Even if it means joining the Population Police to do so. But will Trey be brave enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with the very people who want to take his life?
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I have read 6 out of the 7 books in the Shadow Children series, and except for the first book, this was my favorite so far! In this book Trey, one of the boys Lee mentored at the school, is the protagonist and "hero",something he never would have thought himself capable of! As a 3rd child, Trey grew up hiding in the city with his 2 friends until they got caught by the population police and "held" in prison, until they could be brought to Lee's school by Jen's father. Trey looks up to Lee and admires his courage. The story continues drastically when the population police seize power,and the whole country is forced to change. Jen's dad is kidnapped right in front of Trey's eyes,and Lee and his other 2 friends disappear,possibly having been kidnapped also, leaving Trey alone to fend for himself. He makes his way from Jen's house over to Lee's family farm, and befriends Mark, one of Lee's older brothers. Together they hatch a plan to drive into the city and "rescue" Lee and the others. Everything goes pretty smoothly until they arrive at the new population police headquarters and Mark gets caught. Trey has to decide whether to run away and hide (his first instinct) or stay and bravely figure out a way inside, a way to secretly locate the others, and a plan of escape. I can't give away any more info without ruining the plot, but trust me, this book is action-packed and full of intense moments throughout!I enjoyed getting to know Trey's character, and his personality and back story was as well-developed or better than Lee's, in my opinion. I highly recommend this series and this book in particular for teens who like adventure and suspense, or for those who are not really into reading. This is a high interest yet easy to read book series; a win-win!
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Writing: 1.0
Plot: 1.0
Characters: 1.0
Enjoyment: 1.0
Reread/Recommend: 1.0
5.0 stars
Yes. Full 5 stars. I loved this so much oh my goodness OH MY GOODNESS Ahhhhhhhhhhhh *sobs and screams at everyone because TREY AH* I think I'm becoming a little biased towards these books because I love them so much.....I don't care though lol they are totally worth 5 stars and you can't convince me otherwise -
3 stars.
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Again, I'm going to have to give a book in this series a 3.5 because I can't bring myself to give it 4 stars. Bummer!! This is book 5 in the series, and it is Trey’s story after he is dropped at Mr. Talbot’s house in the end of Barons. He thinks he’s there to get help from Mr. Talbot while his friends wait in the car, but when Population Police tear out of the garage with a handcuffed Talbot, and Nina and the others speed away from the house, he’s left alone, confused, and scared. He learns that the president has been overthrown and replaced with the head of the Population Police, who is ruthless and determined to rid the country of ‘thirds’. Riots, executions, betrayals, and an authority overhaul leave pretty much everyone with no idea who they can trust or how they will survive. With the help of Luke’s brother Mark, Trey sets off to find his friends and figure out what he’s going to do now that he’s on the run. Along the way, the timid and naïve Trey learns strengths that he never knew he had, and becomes a key player in the future of the movement to free the shadow children.
I really like the way this series is set up to have storylines from several different characters that cover the story as a whole, because it makes me enjoy characters that, to be honest, I didn’t think much of before. Trey was one of them, but after reading Brave and seeing how much he grows, I like him a lot more than I did in the previous books. He goes from this meek little boy to being a strong, clever asset to the movement. I have to admit, after reading 5 books of this series I’m itching for an ending…I’m kind of feeling like enough is enough, but I do really love all of the stories behind each character. I’m just ready for the Population Police to get what they deserve!! =) -
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reviewing this book on my blog I decided to re-read it because it's been a while. It was as good as I remembered. Trey is a likable hero because he does courageous things despite his own fear. If you're willing to look for them, the book also has some good themes about doing the right thing despite potentially bad consequences, the sanctity of human life, courage, friendship, etc. This book is my favorite in the series and can be read alone, but I'd recommend reading the stories in order. -
Among the Brave is the fifth installment in the Shadow Children series. In this book it is all about how Trey, as a third child, went and fought against all odds. He was forced to put his fear aside in order to save his friends.
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More action packed then the last book. Now I am really curious to how they free themselves. Next book here we go.
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Eh ah
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Hiding and running away from the law are challenges Luke Garner has to face because of his secret. In “Among The Hidden” by Margaret Peterson Luke Garner struggles by hiding a secret, he is a shadow child, a shadow child is another term for the third child which wasn’t allowed in Luke’s town.Luke is tired of hiding, he wants to be a kid, he wants to play outside and football with other kids like his brothers Matthew and Mark, Luke wants to go to school and have friends. His mom just wants him to stay safe inside the attic where no one can see him nor get in trouble.Luke sees a girl, a girl about his age in a house where two children already live.Luke risks everything to investigate who this girl is and why she was in that house.Sometimes you need to take risks in life no matter what the consequences are.
Among The Hidden fits in the science fiction genre because in the book it talks about the third child not being allowed because the government doesn't want to overpopulate.In the book the text says “There was a law against Luke. Not him personally— everyone like him, kids who were born after their parents had already had two babies. Actually, Luke didn't know if there was anyone else like him. He wasn't supposed to exist. Maybe he was the only one. They did things to women after they had their second baby, so they wouldn't have any more. And if there was a mistake, and a woman got pregnant anyway, she was supposed to get rid of it.”
I enjoyed this book because of the description of every event, the author made me feel like i was with Luke and while reading I could imagine everything that was happening.I think people who enjoy fantasy would like this book because it’s kind of dramatic and you can feel the emotions.Children and adults of all ages would enjoy reading Among The Hidden because it’s appropriate and it’s something that could happen one day if the united states over populate.So if you are looking for a great book to read, pick up Among the Hidden and start reading today. -
Through a series of well-timed, unfortunate events, Trey finds himself testing his illusive bravery. Being separated from Luke, he finds himself hiding out at the home of Mr. Talbot. The home has been trashed and Trey is afraid. After a few days pass, he spies Smits and Luke’s brother, Mark near the house. Could it be that Luke’s family is living near him?
Conjuring up more gumption, he decides to confront Mark. While deciding if Luke and Nina are in danger, they decide to rescue them, unbeknownst to Luke and Mark’s parents. Along the way, dangers are everywhere, food is scarce, and the Population Police have taken over the Grant’s home as their headquarters. Mark is captured as an enemy and Trey, once again, has to muster up his courage and rescue him. He finds a few allies along the way, and without them, he would have no chance to find Luke, Nina, John, or Joel.
Surprisingly, Trey rescues some of his friends and they find a way to temporary safety amongst an old friend. But, the fight isn’t over...so are they going back into the fray, or are they going to wait it out? Among the Brave is Trey’s story and what a story of bravery it is! Full of danger and suspense, it leads us right into the next book in the series, Among the Enemy. -
I really liked this book, it’s probably one of my favorites in the series. Although most of the books are from Luke’s point of view, this book is from his friend trey’s. Trey had never been outside in his life until he turned 12, and he is still afraid of the outdoors. He is a 3rd child, and any time he is in an open space he tries to find somewhere to hide. But throughout the book he learns how to be brave even when he is scared. He takes up a fake identity to be part of the population police to save mark, Luke’s brother. I really liked reading this book from his point of view, I thought it was really interesting. Especially because he had to learn how to be brave when he was still traumatized from being locked away for 12 years.
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This book proves that once again often the best way to read a book is to have low expectations going in. The book is almost always better than I expect when I do that and this was no exception.
I expected a book from the POV of a very peripheral character up until now would be terrible and yet it turns out that it was my favourite in the series so far. Overall, this series leaves the workings of the government super vague (I assume middle grade kids don’t want these details like I do) but in this book, not only is there a lot more action than before, but we caught a brief glimpse into more of how this world is run.
Trey starts our super meek and perpetually freaked out about just LOOKING outside and practically faints at being outside but over time he taps into his bravery (it’s Among the Brave after all) and becomes an interesting main character. -
Among the Brave by Margaret Peterson Haddix was the fifth installment of the Shadow Children Series, and follows Trey, Luke's friend from Hendricks School, rather than Luke. We see Trey coming to terms with how to be brave and save the people he has come to care about the most. Overall, this book really started to show the plummeting and downfall of society, but I just did not feel as captivated by this book as I have by others in the series. Maybe because Trey is not as captivating as a protagonist as Luke or Nina? I'm not sure, but I hope for a turnaround in the next installation, as the setup for it at the end of this novel was very promising.
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Book 5 of The Shadow Children follows Trey, a fellow Hendrick’s school attendee, one of Luke’s friends, and very quiet and scared third child. When crazy and unexpected things happen Trey, against all of his preconceived notions about himself and fears, steps in to help his friends. He doubts himself the whole way, he’s even very far from brave at times...most times, but he cares too much to give up, even if he needs a push and a shove in the right direction once in a while. I’m off to read the 6th book in the series.
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It was better than the last two books in the series but it still can't beat the suspense I first felt when I read it.
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This was the best book in the series so far, in my opinion. It was fast paced and suspenseful; I read it in one sitting.
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this cover makes no sense with the plot of the book
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BRAVO!!! BRILLIANT!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored and proud to be writing about this book, the fifth book of the shadow children with it's heros: Trey, Mark, and our beloved other characters, this novel -may I say- deserves your loudest and strongest clapping to this wonderful novel especially and to her author, Margaret, for her incredible talent, and her inspiring ideas!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Ladies and gentlemen, can we please stand to greet this novel's main character, the hero, the awesome, the brave lifesaver OUR BELOVED TREY!!!!! *CHEERS* *WHISTLING* *CLAPPING* *SHOUTING*
"TREY!!! TREY! TREY!! YAYYYYY!!!"
ladies and gentlemen, thanks for you all, please settle down in your seats, we are going to listen to a review about this novel, silence and concentration please..
*Lights out completely* *stage light focuses on speaker* *some sound effects in the background*
"We all probably read the first four books of the shadow children right? We all should already know enough about "Trey" our main subject in this book, but let me tell you what I know now after the fifth book, Trey, is a 13-14 years old boy, but not any ordinary boy, he was a third child, an illegal shadow child, Trey, as any other shadow child in a normal condition, was hidden in his family's house, by his parents, who's older sons had already moved out to somewhere far away, Trey was left alone with his parents, he, had sadly been put in conditions that forced him to live all his life (early 12 years of his life) in hiding, he never saw the sun, he never saw the trees, he never saw anything but his parents, his room, and his books, Trey's father took it as a mission to make Trey learn as much as he could, due to him not being able to go to school, like all he other hiding shadow children, and that-learning- happened to be learning by reading books, Trey read books about everything and anything, he knew a lot about the outdoors life just by reading books, he imagined everything, and everything he read about happened to be flat like a book page, all he saw was pictures and drawings, which made him surprised to see simple things in their real size and dimensions later on. his dad taught him something special too, which is other languages, Trey learned Latin, and French besides his mother language, and he had a huge dictionary of all the odd and difficult to understand words, compared to other shadow children, he was always better in understanding long difficult words, but it just happened to be useless at the early years of his age, anyways, Trey's mother on the other hand, was a normal grey haired, old woman, she had a face full of wrinkles, and dark circles around her eyes, and patched clothes, along with her husband, she wasn't like Trey's father, she never really did show Trey that she cared about him, she sometimes even whispers to his dad that Trey, wasn't a normal boy, and will never have a normal life, she referred to him being in hiding and living the rest of his life in hiding, and when the worst case scenario happened, and Trey's father died from a heart attack, Trey's mother didn't hesitate a second, to grab the fake I.D card -his father had probably made him since he was born and kept it for worst times- and took her son Trey, to Hendricks private school, where most shadow children with fake IDs lived, she left him there, with Trey having no clue what is happening, and guessing his mother just got rid of him in the first possible chance, though later on he remembered her with tears sparkling in her eyes while she walked away leaving him behind, Trey begun his journey at Hendricks, it was his first time in any place other than his room, at first being in a school which had no windows helped him to not panick or feel so much change, what could go wrong then? Someone would ask.. so let me tell you, then there was Jason, who is a boy that the population police used to collect shadow children with fake IDs, Trey became friends with him, not knowing about his bad well, but then came the new boy that changed Hendricks forever, Luke Garner, a shadow child, who had a dream of freeing all shadow children and getting them their rights, to make them legal, to let them live like normal people, Luke discovered the truth about Jason, and caused him to be prisoned by the population police, gaining Mr.Hendricks and Mr.Talbot's complete trust, and starting a new page in Hendricks school, he became best friends with Trey and two other boys, John and Joel, Trey was awestruck by Lee's (Luke) bravery, he never knew how could a shadow child just like him, be so brave, outgoing, and nature/outdoors lover, Trey feared outdoors, he feared light, he feared open spaces, he was always a coward, as he tells himself, he learned how to grow plants, how to run, and how to play, because of Luke, and he never found them useful, until those days came, and strange bad things started to happen, the children's lives took a hard turn to somewhere it never been to before, those innocent children were forced to go through so much, that ended up with Luke standing with his fake parents and brother (the Grants) under a huge chandelier that decided to swing and fall right on them, Mrs.Grant managed to push her son Smits away, and Trey managed to run straight into Luke pushing him away and covering him from the flying crystal glass shreds that cut through their skin, this was the first brave act Trey had ever done in his life, he saved the life of the bravest child he ever knew, and witnessed death for the first time in his life, even this couldn't convince Trey that he was a brave hero, he thought it was because he never had a chance to rethink it, because Trey, the normal everyday Trey was to be frightened only by being put in a situation that involves being in an open bright space, his first thought at those times always was:"hide! Find somewhere to hide!!"
Yet our Trey didn't stop at this, he kept fighting his fears and insecurities throughout the novel, he witnessed Mr.Talbot being arrested by the population police, he promised Mrs.Talbot he would help her, he collected papers from the Grants and the Talbot's houses, papers that he protected through all his journey, papers that turned out to be more important than he ever would've thought. scared and desperate he went with Mark -Luke's big brother- to rescue Luke, Nina, John and Joel, hiding behind bushes in the woods, he watched Mark being arrested by the population police after being struck by the electric fence, he then bravely decided to do what he should to rescue his friends, he risked joining his worst nightmares, his worst enemy, the population police! He did what he did, faced his fears, crawled inside ducts in the population headquarters (the Grant's house), hiding in the duct he listened to the head of the population police who already was the president at that time, and knew how to reach Mark who was the only one prisoned here and at the basement, Trey kept coming up with brilliant ideas, all out of care for his friends, and fear of not being able to save their lives, he faced things he never knew about on his way, he used skills he never knew he had or needed, he was acting just like a hero, and who said heros never feel fear? Trey continued his mission, with help from the resistance (people that work with the government and population police to destroy it from the inside to get freedom) he broke through the danger, faced important high level officers from the population police and managed to carry on an act to save his friends, he saved Mark's life nearly three times, and then he reached his the place where his friends are prisoned, with Mark's leg broken and having burns all over him, Trey miraculously got the prison officer to get Mark a doctor, though Mark was a prisoner.
along the way Trey discovered the cruelty of people, and guessed what will happen if those stayed in charge of the country, after some breathless events and frightening moments, Trey didn't just rescue Mark and his friends Luke Nina John and Joel, but he also rescued the chuaffer, and Mr.Talbot (who Trey for the first time discovered was the head of the resistance) with help from Nedley (from the resistance) and Mark who showed infinite strength by dismissing his pain, and fighting with Trey.
Trey, had saved everyone's lives by his bravery, saved important papers by his well thinking, and did as he promised Mark and Mrs.Talbot and deserved Mr.Hendrick's trust.
And Trey of course didn't stop here, he is now planning to go on with what he and his friends believe, he and his friends now will work together to fulfill the same dream they all share with hundreds of shadow children: a day that will set them all free, to live the life the way they should.."
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First sentence: Great, Trey thought. I do one brave thing in my entire life, and now it's like, 'Got anything dangerous to do? Send Trey. He can handle it.' Doesn't anyone remember that Cowardice is my middle name?
Premise/plot: Among the Brave is the fifth book in Margaret Pertson Haddix's Shadow Children series. Trey, the narrator, faces great challenges in this one. For Trey, going outside is an act of bravery. So when all of his friends disappear, and the trustworthy adults in his life disappear as well, he's at a loss. He teams up for a while with Luke's brother, Mark. But Mark is CAPTURED leaving Trey on his own to brainstorm a rescue plan. Can Trey find a way to save everyone?
My thoughts: The world Haddix created is turned upside down by revolution. But it's a revolution that won't do third children any favors. Freedom still seems to be an impossible dream. I don't know how Haddix manages to pack so much ACTION into her novels. Usually the more action a book has, the less important character development is. That's so far from the case in this series. The books remain thoughtful--contemplative. Yet there's so much going on! Danger abounds. -
The series has a kind of fantasy agoraphobia/autism to go along with the children who have been forced at dire risk to themselves and their families to hide inside silent and away from windows. Trey has this condition. He gets over it in an action scene in the last like 20 pages of the book, the first 95% are him whining about being scared and how much he doesn't want to save his friends, just look like he tried. Being scared is believable but it never ends, and it tips over into laziness. I hated Trey as a protagonist, he has a little bit of book smarts but he never comes across as intelligent because he has nothing but fear and abandonment issues to direct at the outside world. Because he has no curiosity, we never get a feel for what happens around him, you just peer out of this brats head into what would have been a cool plot if he would just get over himself before it was all over. It would be interesting if he actually struggled against his fears or disability, but its made clear he just wants to go home to his dad, over and over and over.
This actually wasn't the worst book in the series, 2 definitely was, but give it a skim or a miss.
