Among the Betrayed

Name: Among the Betrayed
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN: 9781980015215

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Series: Shadow Children #3

Narrator: John Kroft

Unabridged: 4 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/18/2019

Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories, Action & Adventure Stories, Science Fiction Stories

Synopsis

What does it mean to save yourself?

Nina Idi—a third child in a society where families are allowed only two children—has been betrayed by the boy she loved, and arrested by the Population Police for exposing other alleged third children. Angry and confused, Nina knows only one thing for sure: She is innocent of the charges.
But now she is faced with the most difficult choice of her life: Get three other prisoners to admit they are shadow children and be spared herself, or refuse to cooperate and be killed.The options are clear. The choice, Nina discovers, is not. …

About Margaret Peterson Haddix

Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm in Ohio. She worked as a newspaper reporter and copy editor in Indiana before her first book, Running Out of Time, was published. She has since written more than fifty books for kids and teens, including the Greystone Secrets series, the Shadow Children series, the Missing series, the Children of Exile series, and lots of stand-alones. Haddix and her husband, Doug, now live in Columbus, Ohio, where they raised their two kids. You can learn more about her at haddixbooks.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jerry on October 13, 2017

I'm short on time again today, so, this will be quick: This was another exciting entry in this series.......more

Goodreads review by Hunter on January 10, 2014

Among the Betrayed The main character is Nina, and she is the third born child in her family. Nina is illegal, because she is the third born of her family, and third born children are illegal, because it is hard times where she lives. Nina used to live with her aunt’s, but she got caught. For third......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on March 03, 2024

Sadly all the previous momentum of the series is gone for me. The whole book is a bottle episode, but with relatively unlikeable characters we hardly know. I think I see the effort at a new dilemma for the reader to consider; where Jen and Luke are resolute in their motivations and differ in their a......more

Goodreads review by Nick on January 12, 2023

The character shift to a new pov threw me in this one.......more