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Shade's Children

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By Garth Nix
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers - (HarperTeen)
Shade's Children
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The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shades 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 Shades 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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352 pages352 pages
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9780064471961

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