Shade's children
About this book
The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shade's Children 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...
Reader Profile
3.9/5 · 13808 readers · 345 pages · ≈ 6 h 23 m · Easy
How long does it take to read Shade's children?
About ≈ 6 h 23 m — 345 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Shade's children?
345 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Shade's children?
It sits on the Young Adult, Science Fiction shelves.
Is Shade's children in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Shade's children?
Garth Nix.