Product Details
ISBN: 9780007174980
Category: Science Fiction
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Pages: 352
Pagination: 352 pages
Dimensions (mm): 197x130mm
Weight: 325g
Shade's Children
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!