num_pages: 360
description: There are no men in Claysoot. There are boysbut every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes the wind howls a blinding light descendsand hes gone.They call it the Heist.Gray Weathersbys eighteenth birthday is mere months away and hes prepared to meet his fateuntil he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything hes been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoota structure that no one can cross and survive.Climbing the Wall is suicide but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be takenor risk everything on the hope of the other side?
language: English
title: Taken
publisher: HarperTeen