TY - BOOK AU - Ness,Patrick TI - Knife of never letting go: chaos walking : book one T2 - Chaos walking SN - 9781406379167 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Walker Books KW - Social problems KW - Fiction KW - Telepathy KW - Human-animal communication KW - Space colonies KW - Science fiction KW - Dogs KW - YOUNG ADULT FICTION KW - Action & Adventure KW - Survival Stories KW - bisacsh KW - Dystopian KW - Social Themes KW - Violence KW - fast KW - Young adult fiction KW - Juvenile fiction KW - sears KW - Animal behavior KW - lcsh KW - Young adult works KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N1 - "Tenth anniversary"--Inside dust cover; "Soon to be a major motion picture"--Cover; Accelerated Reader AR; UG; 4.4; 16; 124840; Reading Counts RC; 6-8; 5.6; 26; Quiz: 45049 N2 - Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they can hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful that Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the other females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is ER -