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The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

"If one of us falls, we all fall".

Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown.

But Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear what everyone else's thinking in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending noise.. There is no privacy, there are no secrets.

Or are there?

Just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd unexpectedly stumbles upon a spot of complete silence.

Which is impossible.

Prentisstown has been lying to him.

And now he's going to have to run...