The Knife of Never Letting Go
School year: Lower 6th, Upper 6th, Year 10, Year 11, Year 8, Year 9
No. of pages 496
Published: 2018
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book is part of a book series called Chaos Walking Trilogy .
This book has been graded for interest at 14 years.
There are 496 pages in this book.
It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.
This book was published in 2018 by Walker Books Ltd .
Patrick Ness is the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy. He has won numerous awards including the the Costa and Galaxy Children's Book Awards and the Carnegie Medal. He lives in London.
Fantasy Adventure
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Top Dogs
Branford Boase Award
Adventures in literature
Chaos Walking Trilogy
Big Fan Of Dystopian Fiction and Looking for Sci Fi Or Other Recommendations
Carnegie Award
This book is in the following series:
Chaos Walking Trilogy
Chaos Walking Trilogy "The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking." Two children must make sense of a dystopian world where living beings can hear each others thoughts.
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Nevada Young Readers' Award - YA
This book was recognised in the YA category by the Nevada Young Readers' Award.
Booktrust Awards - Teenage
This book was recognised in the Teenage category of the Booktrust Awards . The Book Trust Book Awards aim to unearth the very best childrens books the UK has to offer, and to honour authors and illustrators who continue Britains proud heritage of storytelling. Heritage catgeoires include: Blue Peter Book Awards, Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award, Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Booktrust Best Book Awards (with Amazon Kindle). Current categories include: Storytime Prize, Lifetime Achievement Aawrd, Children's Laureate.
Iowa High School Book Award
This book was recognised by the Iowa High School Book Award.
Vermont Green Mountain Book Award
This book was recognised by the Vermont Green Mountain Book Award.
Green Mountain Book Award
This book was recognised by the Green Mountain Book Award.
Carnegie Medal
This book was recognised by the Carnegie Award. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.
Guardian Fiction Award
This book was recognised by the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Award. This award was founded in 1967 and winners are selected by fellow writers. It is awarded annually to fiction written for children aged eight and above.
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
This book was recognised by the Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award.
Tayshas Reading
This book was recognised by the Tayshas Reading.
Virginia Readers Choice Award - High School
This book was recognised in the High School category by the Virginia Readers Choice Award.
This book features the following characters:
Todd Hewitt
This book features the character Todd Hewitt.
Viola Eade
This book features the character Viola Eade.
The story, narrated sparkily and saltily by its hero Todd, unpeels Prentisstown's dark secrets like the layers of a very rotten onion. Ness, an acclaimed author of adult fiction as well, moves things along at a breakneck pace, and Todd's world is filled with memorable characters, foul villains. * Financial Times *
An impossibly good novel. It is at once endearing yet unsentimental; compassionate yet damning; exhaustingly exhilarating and yet tempered by a staid and considered emotivity. Written in the first-person present tense in an unapologetically impudent manner, this novel captures exceptionally the brash bravado and the underlying insecurities that actively teem inside the minds and explode in the actions of boys on their path to manhood. * www.inthenews.co.uk *
THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL excellent debuts in recent months and perhaps the most impressive is Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go. It's the story of Todd, the last boy in a community of men. In Prentisstown, the Noise virus has left men with the ability to hear each other's thoughts, those of animals too. The idea may send shivers up the spine, but how different is it to the constant intrusion of e-mails, texts, advertisements and CCTV we already suffer? When Todd finds a lone girl in the marshes he realises they have to escape, which isn't easy when your hunters can hear your every thought. Written in Todd's characteristic vernacular and brimming over with ideas about adolescence, faith and free will, this is intelligent, immersive storytelling. -- Keith Gray * The Scotsman *
A book like no other. It's one of the most gripping, fantastical reads around. -- Camilla de la Bedoyere * Sunday Express *
Darkly imagined and brilliantly created, the painful dystopian setting of a world full of noise in which all thoughts can be heard as if spoken is the background to this tense coming of age story. * The Guardian *
