The knife of never letting go

By Patrick Ness, Nick Podehl

Subjects: Human-animal relationships, fiction, Space colonies, collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=winner, sci-fi, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Values & Virtues, Juvenile fiction, Human-animal relationships, western, Science fiction, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, Sears, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Boys & Men, Extrasensory perception, fiction, Dystopia, coming of age, LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy, Social problems, Children's fiction, Dogs, 2008 Guardian children's fiction prize, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Media Tie-In, Social problems, fiction, young adult, dog, Human-animal communication, Telepathy, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Dystopian, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural, Reading Level-Grade 11, LGBTQ gender identity, Young Adult Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 10, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / General, Reading Level-Grade 12

Description: An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...