40 Fun Facts About Among the Brave

During the raid on Mr. Talbot's house in Among the Brave, what does Trey dive behind on the porch?

A flowerpot is all that hides Trey from the Population Police, yet the raider who searches the porch reports it clear.

Which Latin word, used as a code by Mr. Talbot's resistance, does a raider say on the porch in Among the Brave?

Liber means free, and when Mark later yells it from captivity, it draws out a guard who secretly shares the cause.

After Mark is captured in Among the Brave, how does Trey get inside Population Police headquarters himself?

He enlists as a recruit among hundreds of men and boys rushing to join, then uses his new position to search the building for Mark.

In Among the Brave, what is Mark locked inside when Trey finds him at Population Police headquarters?

A cage holds Mark in the basement, where the prisoner is due to be disposed of within a few hours.

At the end of Among the Brave, what do Mr. Talbot and the others first decide to do with Trey's documents?

Burn them is the adults' plan for keeping the pages from the Population Police, but Trey snatches them back at the last moment.

In Among the Brave, what does Trey keep calling himself in his own thoughts?

A coward is how Trey sees himself, yet Mark, Luke's older brother, tells him he is the braver of the two.

Which country's real birth-limit policy helped inspire the two-child law in Margaret Peterson Haddix's Among the Brave?

China and its one-child policy came up when Haddix and her husband debated whether to have more than two children themselves.

In Among the Brave, what injures Mark as he tries to slip onto the grounds of Population Police headquarters?

An electrified fence throws Mark into spasms, and Trey has to shove him off with a stick before four uniformed men take him away.

In Among the Brave, what profession lets Mrs. Talbot treat the injured after the prison rescue?

A doctor by training, Mrs. Talbot abandons Trey in her own house early on, then reappears to tend the rescued group.

In Among the Brave, what does Trey hand over to have the captive Mark moved out of headquarters?

Forged papers ordering a transfer to another prison get Mark onto the pickup, and neither officer on duty is willing to phone and check.

In Among the Brave, what habit from Trey's years in hiding gives him the knowledge that saves his life?

Reading books his father supplied left Trey timid but learned, and in moments of danger he calms himself by recalling word origins.

Where does Among the Brave fall in Margaret Peterson Haddix's seven-book Shadow Children series?

Fifth in the sequence, it is the only Shadow Children book told from Trey's point of view rather than Luke Garner's or Nina's.

In Among the Brave, which privileged class gets accurate news that the government keeps from everyone else?

The Barons, the country's wealthy elite, control stations of their own, while ordinary families see only what officials allow.

In Among the Brave, what must Trey do for a Population Police soldier in exchange for Mark's release?

Free a jailed friend is the bargain, and only after the escape does Trey recognize the battered prisoner as Mr. Talbot himself.

Under the new regime in Among the Brave, what must a family do before it can legally buy food?

Enroll a relative as an officer or be barred from trading: the rule sends hundreds of men and boys to sign up for a force many of them think is wrong.

Which orphan raised by a homeless man takes over as hero in the Shadow Children novel after Among the Brave?

Matthias leads the next book, which brings back Trey's ally from the prison escape working undercover under a new name.

In Among the Brave, whose former mansion do Trey and Mark find serving as Population Police headquarters?

The Grants had been killed at their own party just before the story opens, and their estate is now the nerve center of the new regime.

In Among the Brave, how do Trey and Mrs. Talbot find out the Population Police have overthrown the government?

A private news network breaks the story, and the defeated Mrs. Talbot walks out of her own home, leaving Trey to fend for himself.

In Among the Brave, what do the papers Trey carries through the whole story turn out to conceal?

Identities of third children living under false names fill the pages, which is why Trey cannot bear to see the list destroyed.

In Among the Brave, what color is the hair of the hostile woman Trey finds inside the Talbot house?

Bright red hair marks out the woman who confronts Trey after the raid, and she turns out to be Mrs. Talbot, mother of Luke's dead friend Jen.

In Among the Brave, what affectionate name does Mark Garner call the farm truck he and Trey drive?

Bessie has to be pushed out of the barn and down to the road before Mark will start the engine, so that nobody hears them leave.

Which Population Police officer at the prison in Among the Brave secretly helps Trey's group escape?

Nedley looks like a loyal officer when the warden sends him off with Mark, but the two use the drive to plan a fake kidnapping.

Which Population Police commander does Trey overhear raging about a prisoner in the basement in Among the Brave?

Aldous Krakenaur has just seized the government, and Trey hears him fume from a hiding place only a grille away.

In Among the Brave, what killed Trey's father, the parent who had educated him in hiding?

A heart attack took the one parent who cared for Trey's mind; his mother had spent her evenings glaring at him while he studied.

In the backstory of Among the Brave, what did Trey's mother do with him once his father had died?

Left him at a school is the blunt version: she said it was no longer safe for them to be together, and Trey still feels abandoned.

In Among the Brave, where does Trey hide once Mrs. Talbot leaves him alone in her house?

A kitchen cabinet is where he curls up: Trey spent his whole childhood shut in one room, and the empty house frightens him.

On Trey's third day waiting in the Talbot house in Among the Brave, what is cut off across the neighborhood?

The electricity goes off after days in which Trey has had no news at all and can only guess how bad things are outside.

Which board game played with his father does Trey recall while deciding how to save Mark in Among the Brave?

Chess comes to mind as Trey hides alone outside headquarters, unsure what to do after four uniformed men have taken Mark away.

Which injury keeps Mark from joining Trey's undercover plan straight away at the end of Among the Brave?

A broken leg, set in a prison infirmary during the rescue, leaves Mark promising to follow the others as soon as he recovers.

How does Mark stop Population Police trucks from chasing the escaping prisoners in Among the Brave?

He punctures their tires so that nobody can follow, a detail Trey only learns once Mark retells the adventure in safety.

While driving in a Population Police uniform in Among the Brave, who attacks Trey twice on the road?

Hungry mobs set on him twice before he even reaches the prison, where the captive he was sent for turns out to be Mr. Talbot.

Just before Among the Brave opens, what crashes down and kills the hosts of a party Trey attends?

A chandelier falls during an assassination attempt; Trey saves Luke, then grabs the documents he carries all through this story.

In Among the Brave, what does Mrs. Talbot warn Trey her flashlight doubles as when she catches him?

A gun, she claims, then demands to know whether Trey is one of the Population Police who have just raided her home.

What does Mr. Hendricks, the school founder who shelters the fugitives in Among the Brave, rely on to get around?

A wheelchair carries Mr. Hendricks, whom the Population Police leave behind because they believe he cannot possibly survive alone.

Which false name is on the identity card that keeps Trey alive in Among the Brave, though he dislikes using it?

Travis Jackson is on the card Trey clutches as the only thing standing between him and death, though he still prefers to be called Trey.

What is Trey's real first name, revealed only at the end of Among the Brave?

Trahern Cromwell Torrance is the full name, held back until the final pages even though Trey first appeared as Luke's timid classmate in Among the Impostors.

In Among the Brave, what does Mrs. Talbot assume Trey must be when she finds him in her raided house?

A looter is her guess until Trey explains that he is a friend of Mr. Talbot, at which point she finally tells him who she is.

In which US state did Among the Brave author Margaret Peterson Haddix grow up on a family farm?

Ohio is where Haddix grew up between two small towns, in a farming family of voracious readers, before studying at Miami University.

Which Margaret Peterson Haddix series, opening with Found, followed her Shadow Children books such as Among the Brave?

The Missing began two years after the last Shadow Children book; Haddix said she wanted to stop that series before she became repetitious.

In Among the Brave, what does Mark hand Trey to wear before they set off in the farm truck?

A flannel shirt comes with a wake-up call from Mark, who offers to go alone when Trey whimpers with fear but soon has him steering.