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Piper at the gates of dusk Cover Image Book

Piper at the gates of dusk / Patrick Ness.

Ness, Patrick, 1971- (author).

Summary:

It's been twenty years since the monstrous war that almost tore New World apart, and there's a new generation on the planet. Todd and Viola's sons Ben and Max have known only peace growing up on the family farm outside a bustling human settlement. They dream of the usual things, like school and adventure, until the nightmares begin.... A sudden sickness has infected the young people of New World with Noise in the form of their worst thoughts about themselves. Some suspect the Spackle, the indigenous people with whom humans have a very uneasy truce. Others wonder about a connection to a mysterious object looming in the sky. And then, one by one, the children of New World begin to disappear. Ben, with his mother's logical mind, and Max, with his father's courageous heart, become caught up in separate quests for answers, journeys that will test their beliefs in their parents, each other, and in their very existence on the planet.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781536248302
  • ISBN: 1536248304
  • ISBN: 9781529537581
  • ISBN: 1529537584
  • Physical Description: 325 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2026]

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Illustration on endpapers.
Publisher, dates, and paging may vary.

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Young adult fiction.
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