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1) The toll
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder. -- from Amazon.
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Between the time the Thunderhead came to sentience and Scythe Goddard decided something needed to change, there were hundreds of years when humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes acted as the living instruments of population control.
3) Scythe
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Series
Arc of a scythe volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Science Fiction [Middle School Readers]
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"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.
5) Thunderhead
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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The Thunderhead cannot interfere in the affairs of the Scythedom. All it can do is observe-it does not like what it sees. A year has passed since Rowan has gone off grid. Since then, he has become an urban legend, a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. His story is told in whispers across the continent. As Scythe Anastasia, Citra gleans (kills) with compassion and openly challenges the ideals of the "new order." But when her...
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Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident-and their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to go. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous, place where bands of lost kids run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth. When...
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