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The City of Gold and Lead

✍ Scribed by John Christopher

Publisher: Aladdin;Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 110 KB
Edition: 35th anniversary ed
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1481409123

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Will and his friends return to the City of the Tripods--and risk their lives--in this second book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Shadow Children series.
When Will and his friends arrived at the White Mountains, they thought everything would be okay. They'd found a safe haven where the mechanical monsters called Tripods could not find them. But once there, they wonder about the world around them and how they are faring against the machines.

In order to save everyone else, Will and his friends want to take down the Tripods once and for all. That means journeying to the Tripod capital: the City of Gold and Lead.

Although the journey will be difficult, the real danger comes once Will is inside the city, where Tripods roam freely and humans are even more enslaved than they are on the outside. Without anyone to help him, Will must learn the secrets of the Tripods--and how...

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