Tweeting, texting, email and cell phones: we are surrounded by and enmeshed with the lives of others. Their noise can overwhelm us. In this can't-put-it-down novel, 13-year-old Todd Hewitt and his faithful dog Manchee are on the run from Prentissetown, a pioneer space colony where everyone can hear other people's thoughts - a grim, vicious place submerged in secrets surrounding the absence of women, cut off from other pioneer towns. Then Todd meets Viola Eade, whose parents have died when their advance ship has crash landed. Together they scramble towards safety, relentlessly pursued by the cold men of Prentissetown. Teens interested in the persistence of evil, the position of women in society, and what it means to be a man will be glued to this riveting novel.
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A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard — and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret. Todd Hewitt is the only boy ...
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