Scythe by Neal Shusterman (author) (UK edition)

In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (“gleaned”) by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes’ apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do.

Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe’s apprentice and as Citra and Rowan come up against a terrifyingly corrupt Scythedom, it becomes clear that the winning apprentice’s first task will be to glean the loser.

Product Details

Catalogue number

9064 in Schools Catalogue 2024–25

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406379242

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

Date published

February 1st, 2018

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 6.5; Upper years; 17.0 points

Other details

448 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

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Reviews

Tamara
on 9 September 2020

Scythe

I am terrible with paying attention to anything I'm reading but this book kept me at the edge of my seat the entire time, the author really fleshed out all of the characters making me cry and laugh with them on almost every page. They created a new world that I can't stop thinking about, they left little Easter eggs along the way that made me turn back again and again to past pages just to relive it with a new perspective.

5out of 5