Among the Hidden

In our group, we were assigned the sci-fi section of the text book. We were to read The Giver as a group and discuss it in the AET Zone. Then we all picked another book from the section to discuss. The one I selected was similar to The Giver in a lot of ways. The name of the book was called Among the Hidden and it was also set in the future. It was about a 12 year old boy and his family. He was the youngest of three boys. However, that was a problem in this story because the government would only allow families to have two children, so he remained in hiding most of his life. If the government (or population police) found out about him, they would kill him, so he lived his life in fear, in the confines of his home. He later makes the decision (he really doesn't have a choice b/c of the events that take place in the story) to obtain a fake ID and leave his family to go to a private school, disguised as someone else. The story leaves off at that point. However, the author wrote a sequal to the book. I enjoyed the story so much, that I purchased the sequal as well and I'm reading it now. I'll post on it next.