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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!
| ISBN | 0007174985 | | Pages | 352 | | ISBN13 | 9780007174980
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 328 | | Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers | | Published in | London | | Imprint | HarperCollins Children's Books | | Height (mm) | 197 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 130 | | Publication date | 01 Aug 2007 | | Key Stage | KS3 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | Children | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Interest age | From 12 To 16 |
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"Infused with all the qualities we've come to expect of Garth Nix's futuristic adventures! It's exciting stuff! [and] a worthy addition to the genre." Inis "[Garth Nix is] the coolest read in the playground." Amanda Craig "Garth Nix blends suspense, action, and high emotion in this excellent, fast-moving science-fiction story." Amazon.com "The twists and turns of the action-filled plot are compelling." Publishers Weekly "A dynamic page-turner. Fast-paced action and the intensity of the entire situation make for exciting reading." ALA Booklist "Combines plenty of comic-book action in a sci-fi setting to produce an exciting read! An action-adventure with uncommon appeal outside the genre." Kirkus  Be the first to write a customer review
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