***Luke is trying to survive in a world in which nothing is what it seems.*** As a third child in a society that allows only two children per family, Luke Garner has been in hiding for most of his life. Now he has the freedom of a false identity, and he's finally settling into his new life as Lee G
Among the Barons
✍ Scribed by Haddix, Margaret Peterson
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Aladdin Paperbacks
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Series
- Shadow Children 4
- Edition
- Reprint
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0689839103
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✦ Synopsis
Luke Garner, an illegal third child, spent his first twelve years in hiding. For the past four months Luke has lived among others, using the identity of Lee Grant, at the Hendricks School for Boys. But just as things are finally starting to go right, Lee's little brother Smits arrives at the school and Luke finds himself caught in a tangle of lies that gets more complex with every passing day.
Can Luke trust Smits to keep his secret? And can he trust Smits's menacing bodyguard, Oscar?
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✦ Subjects
Brothers -- Fiction
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