Scythe (Arc of a Scythe Book 1)

Scythe by Neal Shusterman – a Printz Honor winner and named by TIME as “One of the Best YA Books of All Time” – launches a chilling dystopian series set in a perfect world free from hunger, disease, and war, where only Scythes have the power to end life in order to control the population. Two teenagers, Citra and Rowan, are chosen to apprentice under a Scythe, forced to learn the “art of killing,” knowing that failure could mean their own death. This is a gripping story about the heavy price of perfection and the moral struggles within a world where natural death no longer exists.