Pitying her incomplete existence, her aunts and grandmother saved up enough money to buy a fake identification card, and form the fake name “Nina Idi.” They enroll her at Harlow School for Girls, a state-run school ostensibly attended by only legal children.
Because the Population Police search constantly and ruthlessly for shadow children, Elodie was effectively imprisoned in her family’s house for her young life. Born as Elodie Luria, she once lived in a boring but comfortable home with her grandmother and her three surviving aunts, her parents having been taken by the government after breaking the population law. The novel first contextualizes Nina Idi and the path she took to gaining her name. As her parents’ third child, Idi’s existence is illegal, and she struggles to survive by determining whom and whom not to trust, navigating a near-apocalyptic American society where wealth is concentrated in the hands of very few. Straying from the series’ typical point of view of Luke Garner, it follows a female protagonist Nina Idi, a shadow child who was arrested by the Population Police and betrayed by her friend at the end of the previous novel, Among the Impostors. The third book in the Shadow Children series, it chronicles the lives of a few children in a dystopian future America, in which a fascist government is installed to control overpopulation.
Among the Betrayed is a 2002 young adult speculative fiction novel by American author Margaret Peterson Haddix.
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