Childhood's End -- Arthur C. Clarke, Paperback

Giant silver ships appear above every major city in the world. The Overlords have arrived. They eliminate ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear. After fifty years they also start eliminating humans.

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Published: 05/12/1987
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 6.98h x 4.17w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780345347954

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.7
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 65272 / Childhood's End


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/16/2007 pg. 16
Entertainment Weekly 10/25/2013 pg. 103

About the Author
Arthur C. Clarke has long been considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time and was an international treasure in many other ways, including the fact that an article by him in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Mr. Clarke--both fiction and nonfiction--have more than one hundred million copies in print worldwide. He died in 2008.