Scythe
Record details
- ISBN: 1406379247
- ISBN: 1481485261 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9781481485265 (paperback)
- ISBN: 144247243X (paperback)
- ISBN: 9781442472433 (paperback)
- ISBN: 1442472421 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781406379242
- ISBN: 9781442472426 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781442472426 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1442472421 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781442472433 (paperback)
- ISBN: 144247243X (paperback)
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Physical Description:
433 pages ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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Badges:
- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (gleaned) by professional reapers (scythes). Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe's apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation they must learn the art of killing and come to understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice. And when it becomes clear that the winning apprentice's first task will be to glean the loser, Citra and Rowan are pitted against one another in a fight for their lives. |
Awards Note: | Michael L. Printz Honor, 2017. YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2017. Nutmeg Award Winner, High School, 2019. |
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Subject: | Murder Fiction Death Fiction Apprentices Juvenile fiction Competition Juvenile fiction Murder Juvenile fiction Death Juvenile fiction |
Genre: | Science fiction. Young adult fiction. |
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Available copies
- 76 of 89 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield. (Show)
Holds
- 5 current holds with 89 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | YA FICTION SHUSTERMAN (Text) | 32518138263887 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | YA FIC SHU (Text) | 33120000379260 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | YA SHUSTER (Text) | 33750000065631 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | YOUNG ADULT SHUSTERMAN, N. (Text) | 32544072493272 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | YA FIC Shu Arc of a Scythe; bk.1 (Text) | 33160142351199 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | TEEN SF SHUSTERMAN (Text) | 34030137409196 | Teen Science Fiction | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | YA SHUSTERMAN (NUTMEG NOMINEE 2019) (Text) | 34000081239949 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bolton High School | FIC SHU BK 1 (Text) | 34062127333235 | Series | Checked out | 03/28/2024 |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | YA SHU (Text) | 33260000253345 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | TEEN F/SHUSTERMAN (Text) | 34029138102628 | Teen Fiction | Checked out | 03/30/2024 |
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Summary
Scythe
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning 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 life--and 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 scythe--a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" 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 Award-winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price.