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Shade's Children
By: Garth Nix
Language: English
Quality: Good
Genre: Novel, Science fiction, Young Adult,
ISBN: 9780007174980
SKU: BE500344919095
Pages: 350
Description: NOTE: BROWNING ON EDGE DUE TO AGE.INSIDE CONDITION IS GOOD. On your 14th birthday, you're dead meat... Chilling SF adventure from international bestselling author Garth Nix. In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machinelike creature whose sole purpose is to kill. The mysterious Shade - once a man, but now more like the machines he fights - recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power - and the key to their downfall. But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become...
