num_pages: 352
description: 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…
language: English
title: Shade's Children
titlecomplete: Shade's Children
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Teen, Horror, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Childrens, Fantasy, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 12925
series: Shade's Children
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Golden Duck Award
category: Young Adult (Hal Clement Award)
publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books