num_pages: 345
description: The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shade's ChildrenIf you’re lucky, you live to fight another day.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 machine like 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 ...An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.
language: English
title: Shade's Children
titlecomplete: Shade's Children
genres: Dystopia, Childrens, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Horror, Fantasy, Teen, Fiction
ratings_count: 12925
series: Shade's Children
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Golden Duck Award
category: Young Adult (Hal Clement Award)
publisher: HarperTeen