All the reasons we could come up with for having or not having another baby seemed entirely subjective, more emotional than rational-except the possibility that the world was overpopulated, and it might be irresponsible to have more than two kids. How did you get the idea for Among the Hidden? I first started thinking about Among the Hidden when my husband and I were trying to decide whether to have a third child, or whether to stop with two.

My husband is a newspaper editor and my kids are both in middle school. Several years ago, I moved back to Ohio with my husband and kids we now live in Columbus, Ohio. I've moved around a lot as an adult, having also lived in Luxembourg (during a college semester abroad) and in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. I was pretty disastrous as an athlete, and a part-time community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois, before my first book was published. After graduating from Miami University (of Ohio), I worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana a newspaper reporter in Indianapolisuiz-bowl type team. As a kid, I liked to read a lot, and was also involved in 4-H, various bands and choirs (I played flute and piano), church youth group, the school newspaper, and I ran track one year in high school.

Margaret Peterson HaddixI grew up on a farm outside Washington Court House, Ohio. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows-does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to? Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. By: Margaret Peterson HaddixAmong the Hidden

Among the hidden