Penny for your Thoughts

Ness, Patrick. The Knife of Never Letting Go.
Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press, 2008. Print.

Voices, always voices, forever in your head, a cascade of Noise. You have to watch even what you think, since everyone in your settlement can hear what you think, too.

Fear is ever-present. You are told you are infected with a Germ, a Germ that generates the Noise and has killed all the women in your settlement.

Your adoptive fathers have plans for you to escape this hell, but are found out. You run.. you are tracked.. you find the most precious of all things - a Girl.

Find out what happens when Todd realizes that he has been lied to for his entire life, and the way he thought things were are not even close to the way things are.

"... very creepy..." ~ Adam, 14








Abstract (thanks to OCLC World Cat): "Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World."

Winner: Book Trust Teenage Prize 2008, Guardian Award 2008, James Tiptree Jr. Award 2008

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