Shade's Children

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Garth Nix: Shade's Children (EBook, 2008, HarperCollins)

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English language

Published Nov. 1, 2008 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-00-727918-0
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OCLC Number:
613342161

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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...

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