A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
Two teens must learn the âart of killingâ in this Printz Honorâwinning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end lifeâand they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.
Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scytheâa role that neither wants. These teens must master the âartâ of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.
Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling new series by National Book Awardâwinning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price.