Among the Free

I just finished reading Among the Free by Margaret Peterson Haddix. This is the last book,(book 7) in the shadow children series. In this book Luke Garner, an illgeal 3rd child, is volenteering for the population police because they would only give people food if one family member worked for the population police. Luke is seperated from his family and he needs to survive. Luke is a stable boy, the lowest rank, where all they do is tend to the horses. One day during expection a high ranked population police officer comes buy and takes three boys to help hand out new ID's to everyone. Luke gets chosen and has to go to Chiutza with one other boy. The first house Luke goes to is an elderly womens. She refuses to go to the gathering to get the new ID's. She is sentenced to death by Luke's supervisor and is to be killed at the meeting to show everyone why you can't disobey the popultion police. Right before the gereral is about to shoot her his phone rings so he gives the gun to luke and tells him to shoot her. Luke panics and drops the gun and runs away. He lives in the woods and meets groups of people that don't like the population police. The last group he meets takes him and others to the population police headquaters where there was an uprising and the people had taken over. On the second day of the uprising things start to go bad. One person in the crowd says how 3rd children are to blame and everyone belives him. What was a hatred of the population police changed very quickly to a hatred of 3rd children. The next day Luke thought of a very good plan to sabotage the population police. He gets on his favorite horse and makes her jump onto the stage because no one was alowed on the stage unless they were going to say how great the population police were and how bad 3rd children were. When Luke got on stage he told his entire life story and that he was a 3rd child. He reviled information about the leader of the population police and scared him so much that he left. The government was back in the hands of the people and 3rd children were now free! I really liked this book and the whole series. Luke is only 13 and has to go though so much and changes the world. It is a very intriguing series and you wont be able to put it down. I would recomend it to anyone that likes a good series.