The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

The riveting Chaos Walking trilogy by two-time Carnegie Medalist Patrick Ness, reissued with compelling new covers -- and a bonus short story in each book.

Narrated with crack dramatic and comic timing. . . . The cliffhanger ending is as effective as a shot to the gut. -- Booklist (starred review)

Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.

Patrick Ness is the author of A Monster Calls, More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy. He has twice been awarded the prestigious Carnegie Medal and has received numerous other awards, including a Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a Book Trust Teenage Prize, and a Costa Children's Book Award. Born in Virginia, he lives in London.

Siobhan Dowd spent twenty years as a human rights campaigner for PEN and Amnesty International before her first novel, A SWIFT PURE CRY, was published in 2006. She won the Carnegie Medal posthumously in 2009 after her death at the age of forty-seven.

Jim Kay studied illustration and worked in the archives of the Tate Gallery and the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, two experiences that heavily influence his work. His images for A MONSTER CALLS use everything from beetles to breadboards to create interesting marks and textures. Jim Kay lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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ISBN 13	9780763639310
ISBN 10	0763639311
Title	The Knife of Never Letting Go
Author	Patrick Ness
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Candlewick Press (MA)
Year published	2008-09-09
Number of pages	479
Prizes	Winner of Virginia Readers Choice Award (High School) 2012, Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2008, Winner of Green Mountain Book Award 2012, Commended for Tayshas Reading 2009, Short-listed for Carnegie Medal (Children's) 2009, Short-listed for Nevada Young Readers' Award (Young Adult) 2011, Short-listed for Iowa High School Book Award 2011, Short-listed for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2011
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