Shade's children

345 pages

English language

Published Nov. 1, 2006 by HarperCollins Children's.

ISBN:
978-0-00-723212-3
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OCLC Number:
68770008

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The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shade's Children

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...

12 editions

Subjects

  • Fantasy fiction
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Children's, young adult and educational / Children's and young adult fiction and true stories / Adventure stories (Children's/YA)