num_pages: 222
description: Thousands of years into the future, the human race has been reduced to scattered tribes living a primitive life in hostile isolation from each other. Surplus children are driven into the wilderness and have to learn to survive, with only very primitive tools and hardly any food.This is the story of a young girl, Cyndra, who is cast out by her father into a world of fear and violence. Living at the mercy of a savage tribe, she vows to escape with her friends over the desert. She struggles to invent something to transport food and water over the harsh and bitter land, untilat last she has an idea, an idea which no one has thought of for thousands of years...
language: English
title: Children of the Wheel
titlecomplete: Children of the Wheel
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Oxford University Press