Shade’s Children (rack)
Shade’s Children by Garth Nix, published by HarperCollins on September 18, 1998, is a reprint edition featuring 352 pages in English. Set in a futuristic urban wasteland, the narrative unfolds in a world where evil Overlords have imposed a grim fate on children, ensuring that none survive past their fourteenth birthday. The story follows the mysterious Shade, who recruits a group of children that manage to escape this fate, leading them on a quest to uncover the source of the Overlords’ power.
Readers will find a blend of action and adventure as the four children navigate their perilous environment, utilizing their luck, cunning, and skills to challenge the oppressive regime. The book explores themes of survival and resistance against tyranny, as the children inch closer to understanding the Overlords’ machinelike creations and the dark forces at play. With elements of fantasy and science fiction, Shade’s Children presents a gripping tale of resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.
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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 …
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