Ness, P. (2008).
The knife of never letting go. Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press.
A town of men in where the only boy is Todd
Hewitt. The settlers were infected with a Noise germ that makes everyone’s thoughts
loud enough for everyone to hear. There
are no private thoughts. Todd is about to become a man but the town is hiding
something from him. Todd and Manchee his dog, notice a silence in the Noise. When
Todd’s foster parents find out about the silence, they tell him he must leave
right away and forever. He decides to leave town with his dog. As they travel
they come across a girl and wonder why she wasn’t killed like the others. She was
the lone survivor of a spaceship crash coming from the old world to the new
world. Together they runaway while being followed by Aaron and the Prentisstown
army who are trying to kill them. They finally get to Haven where they thought
they could be safe.
A story with lots of tension and suspense. A
book for grades nine and up. Other books by this author include, The Ask and the
Answer, Monsters of Men, and More Than This.
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