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Shade's children

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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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Product Details
HarperCollins
0007174985 / 9780007174980
Paperback / softback
823.92
06/08/2007
United Kingdom
English
350 p.
20 cm
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Quiz No: 210877, Points 11.00, Book Level 6.40,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 1997; London: HarperCollins Children's, 2004.
/ Key title On your 14th birthday, you're dead meat... Chilling SF adventure from international bestselling author Garth Nix. / Garth Nix is a master of fantasy and his UK book sales have reached over GBP4m in value (Bookscan TCM Chart) / Interacive website www.garthnix .co.uk relaunched in November 2006, receives over 20k visitors a month has a growing database of dedicted fans / Major pre-awareness campaign to build up to Garth Nix's planned UK author tour in September 2007 / Key promotions planned across high street and mass market retailers / Reviews, interviews and features planned for na
/ Key title On your 14th birthday, you're dead meat... Chilling SF adventure from international bestselling author Garth Nix. / Garth Nix is a master of fantasy and his UK book sales have reached over GBP4m in value (Bookscan TCM Chart) / Interacive website www.garthnix .co.uk relaunched in November 2006, receives over 20k visitors a month has a growing database of dedicted fans / Major pre-awareness campaign to build up to Garth Nix's planned UK author tour in September 2007 / Key promotions planned across high street and mass market retailers / Reviews, interviews and features planned for na YFG Science fiction (Children's / Teenage)