The Knife of Never Letting Go
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2008.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 479 pages ; 23 cm.
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.
Series: Ness, Patrick, 1971- Chaos walking ; bk. 1.
Contents:
The hole in the noise -- Prentisstown -- Ben and Cillian -- Don't think it -- The things you know -- The knife in front of me -- If there was -- The choices of a knife -- When luck ain't with you -- Food and fire -- The book of no answers -- the bridge -- Across the bridge -- The wrong end of a gun -- Brothers in suffering -- The night of no apologies -- Encounter in a orchard -- Farbranch -- Further choices of a knife -- Army of men -- The wider world -- Wilf and the Sea of Things -- A knife is only as good as the one who wields it -- The death of the worthless coward -- Killer -- The end of all things -- On we go -- The smell of roots -- Aaron in a thousand ways -- A boy called Todd -- The wicked are punished -- Downriver -- Carbonel Downs -- Oh never leave me -- the Law -- Answers to askings -- What's the point? -- I heard a maiden call -- The falls -- The sacrifice -- If one of us falls -- Last road the Haven.
Subjects:
Science fiction.
Social problems -- Teen fiction.
Dogs -- Teen fiction.
Human-animal communication -- Teen fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- Teen fiction.
Space colonies -- Teen fiction.
Telepathy -- Teen fiction.
Science fiction.
Social problems -- Teen fiction.
Dogs -- Teen fiction.
Human-animal communication -- Teen fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- Teen fiction.
Space colonies -- Teen fiction.
Telepathy -- Teen fiction.
Target Audience: 860
ISBN:
9780763639310
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Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 4.4 16.
A Junior Library Guild selection
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 4.4 16.
A Junior Library Guild selection