Ness, P. (2008). The knife of
never letting go. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.
Todd Hewitt lives in Prentisstown,
where there are no women and 146 men. In
Prentisstown you can hear everyone’s thoughts all the time, and they can hear
yours. Todd is 12 years and 12 months
and will turn thirteen in 1 month and will be considered a man. He is sent to the woods to get apples and
that is the beginning of the chaos.
There he runs into silence in the old village of the Spackle. He doesn’t know what is causing the silence
and then he returns to Prentisstown and tells his guardians where they send him
away to save him. He runs back to the
forest and discovers the silence was a girl.
He has never seen a girl before and they are now on the run for their
life.
The
Knife of Never Letting Go is
definitely science fiction. The book is
set on another planet where animals can talk, men’s thoughts are not secret,
but women’s are. Viola has crash landed
on this planet with her parents, who died in the crash, and they are scouting
for the rest of the people on the larger ship to land. She has brought with her advanced devices
that start fire and medicine for quick healing.
The themes of coming of age and choice are displayed throughout the book
as Todd has to choose what kind of man he will become, choosing to rescue Viola
and sacrificing his dog, and his age is on his mind constantly as he counts
down to becoming a man. This would be
best to use in high school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj4fowWo7xM book trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeT1ga5ZqFI Patrick Ness Interview
Other books in the series:
The Ask and the Answer
Monsters of Men
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