![]() ![]() Shusterman called on personal experience as the father of a schizophrenic son to write the book, with his son illustrating the novel. Shusterman's previous book, Challenger Deep, about a teen boy's decent into mental illness, won the National Book Award, among many other accolades. ![]() Scythe came out November of 2016 and won a Printz Honor (the YA version of the Newbery) in January of 2017. But, my twenty-four-year old daughter, twelve-year-old son and I were about to embark on an eight hour road trip and I wanted a book all three of us would enjoy. While I love it, I don't read as much YA as I used to when I was a bookseller and I was seeing it on the shelf everyday. ![]()
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