Thief of Souls (36 page)

Downsiders

The Eyes of Kid Midas

Full Tilt

The Schwa Was Here

The Shadow Club

The Shadow Club Rising

Speeding Bullet

Unwind

UnWholly

What Daddy Did

THE SKINJACKER TRILOGY

Everlost

Everwild

Everfound

THE STAR SHARDS CHRONICLES

Scorpion Shards

Thief of Souls

Shattered Sky

THE DARK FUSION SERIES

Dreadlocks

Red Rider's Hood

Duckling Ugly

STORY COLLECTIONS

Darkness Creeping

Kid Heroes

MindQuakes

MindStorms

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1999 by Neal Shusterman

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The text for this book is set in Granjon.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shusterman, Neal.

Thief of souls / Neal Shusterman.

pages cm.—(The star shards chronicles ; book 2)

Originally published by Tor, 1999.

Summary: As their superhuman powers rage out of control, five teenagers, possessed by shards of a shattered star, become ripe for manipulation by the Bringer, a creature determined to use them to turn the Earth into his own personal feeding ground.

ISBN 978-1-4424-5837-6 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-5113-1 (eBook)

[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Horror stories.] I. Title.

PZ7.S55987Th 2013

[Fic]—dc23

2012046097