When Letta meets a mysterious boy who somehow knows all the words that have been banned, she’s faced with a dangerous choice: sit idly by and watch language slowly slip away or follow a stranger on a path to freedom … or banishment.įor lovers of language and protectors of words everywhere, this collection combines Patricia Forde’s award-winning novel The List with its equally thrilling sequel The Last Word.
One day her master disappears and the leaders of Ark tell Letta she is the new Wordsmith and must shorten List to fewer and fewer words. Words like freedom, music, and even pineapple tell her about a world shes. The second book in that series, The Last Lie, will be available in August 2020. The List, published in 2017, was her first novel. She started out writing television drama and now writes children’s books in both English and Irish. Words like freedom, music, and even pineapple tell her about a world she’s never known. As apprentice to the Wordsmith, Letta can read all the words that have ever existed. She has been writing for children for most of her adult life. Everyone, that is, except Letta.Īs apprentice to the Wordsmith, Letta can read all the words that have ever existed.
To make sure humans avoid the mistakes of their past and are able to survive, everyone in Ark must speak List, a language of only 500 words. The city of Ark is the last safe place on Earth.
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