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Shade's Children

By: Garth Nix
Narrated by: Charles Carroll
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Shade's Children is another compelling tale from best-selling and award-winning author Garth Nix.

If you’re lucky, you live to fight another day.

In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no human shall live a day past their 14th birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the children of the Dorms are taken to the Meat Factory, where they will be made into creatures whose sole purpose is to kill.

The mysterious Shade - once a man but now more like the machines he fights - recruits the few teenagers who escape into a secret resistance force. With luck, cunning and skill, four of Shade’s children come closer than the others to discovering the source of the Overlords’ power - and the key to their downfall. But the closer they get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become.

©1997 Garth Nix (P)2021 Random House Group Ltd Dystopian Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Fiction
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Enjoyed the story and the characters. Garth Nix is always great - the Old Kingdom and Booksellers serieses are particularly good.

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