Awards
Costa Children's Book Award
2009 Shortlist
The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking: Book Two) by Patrick Ness
Publisher: Walker Books
Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of the town? And where is Viola? Is she even alive? And who are the mysterious Answer? And then, one day, the bombs begin to explode...
Patrick Ness is the author of The Knife of Never Letting Go, Book One of the Chaos Walking trilogy which won the 2008 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the BookTrust Teenage Prize. He has written two other books for adults and is a literary critic for the Guardian. He lives in London.
Judges: "A strikingly original and compelling work."
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