Among the Barons: Shadow Children Book 4 by Margaret Haddix

Grade Level: 4-5 | AR Points: 6.0

Among the Barons - Margaret Haddix

Imagine you are an illegal third child in a society that has outlawed any family having more than 2 children and given a fake ID of the dead child of the most powerful family in the nation.  You are then sent off to school as this child, almost exposed as an illegal, then watch as the betrayer himself is arrested instead of you.  You get comfortable in the school and are instrumental in breaking some boys out of their shells.  What do you do when you are told your little brother, one you have never met, will be joining you?

In the fourth book in the Shadow Children series, we are back with Luke/Lee Grant.  He is still at the Hendricks School, but he is helping the other boys, mostly other shadow children, come out of their shells and learn to live in the world.  All seems to be going well, when Lee Grant’s brother Smithfield (Smits) comes to the school.  This sends Luke/Lee into a tailspin because he doesn’t know if Smits will accept him as Lee, or betray him as an imposter.

It’s not long before Smits and Lee are called home to the Grant estate.  He is now among the barons in a world in which he has no idea how to exist.  Can he continue the charade of being Lee in front of the friends and servants?  He still must figure out who he can trust, and who he can’t.

Again, this book has had me staying up and flipping pages just to get to the end.  Then, I find myself only wanting to go on to the next book.

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