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Synopsis Of The Book 'Among The Barons' By Margaret Peterson

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Reading Journal #4: Among The Barons The book that I’m currently reading is called “Among The Barons”. The author of this book is Margaret Peterson Haddix. This book is part of the “Shadow Children” series and is the fourth book from the series. The genre is mystery. Among the Barons is from Luke’s perspective. In this book, Luke has to conquer his fears and go to his fake parents house. Luke is acting like Lee and the government doesn’t know that. Luke has to do this because he is a third child and it’s illegal to be a third child. When he goes to Lee’s house, Luke’s fake parents have to act normal around him. One day his fake parents get a bodyguard named, “Oscar” to guard him wherever he goes. Oscar follows him around until one day …show more content…

The main character is Luke. The side characters of this book are Trey, Nina, Percy, Mathias, Mr.Talbot, The Grants, and Smits. Luke is a very scared person in the beginning but turns out to be a brave person. In my opinion, Luke was always a brave person, but he just didn’t know that. He always did dangerous things like sneaking out which could’ve got him killed! Luke was the main character for all the books except for the third one. My favourite character in this book is Mr.Talbot. I like him the best because he is a double agent for the Population Police and is helping the third children at the same time. He had a daughter named Jen who was also a third child but later died in a rally that she hosted. Mr.Talbot is a good person and is in the Population Police just to manipulate …show more content…

Something that I would change is that, Luke is very selfish in this book. He never helps anyone but himself. In the other three books, he was a very nice guy and helped everyone. This made me quite angry because, he changed instantly for the fourth one. Another thing that I didn’t like was how there weren’t any new characters in this book. The other two books many characters were added on to the story but not this one. The last thing that I didn’t like about this book was how the problem was very small and nobody really cared about it. Nobody cared about the Grants dying and it was very saddening. The main problem of the story was when the Grants got killed but the Population Police immediately turned the house into a headquarters and didn’t care at

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