- Fiction, Human-animal communication, Science fiction, Social problems
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...
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick Ness, Nick Podehl
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio, Walker Books, Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780763652166
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