Analyzing Margaret Preston Hadix's 'Among The Hidden'

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Have you ever wondered if all books are trou? well I know one that can happen if there was a government that mean. It is called among the hidden.The author is Margaret Preston Hadix. She is a great author because in Among the Hidden it has a lot of detail, and I personally think her books are fonominol. They hook you by starting you off with a trailer of the book, then the introduction. Next, it introduces the characters, the character is Luke, the main character. The second character is the girl he meets that, lives across the street. Thee third main characters are his parents. The fourth main characters are his brothers. And the other characters like the government aren’t really important, Luke is number one because the story is based around

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