https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de Author of Scythe and Thunderhead en-us 2018-12-18 15:25:47 UTC 2025-10-12 13:36:31 UTC hello@padlet.com ljh230 https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de/wish/316192817 Neal Shusterman is an American author who is famous for his fiction stories including Scythe, Thunderhead, and Challenger Deep. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, where started writing and truly found his passion. Within a year of getting out of college, he got his first book deal, and it only went uphill from there.]]> 2018-12-20 15:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de/wish/316192817 ljh230 https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de/wish/317015118 Scythe is the first book in the "Arc of a Scythe" series. The book is based in the future where all life-threatening illnesses or actions could be cured in as little as 10 minutes. Now with the population control issue, the government forms a society of "Scythe's"which jobs are to execute at the random to keep population down. When two teen's are chosen for a apprenticeship and their scythe mysteriously kills himself, the twists start to unfold.]]> 2019-01-02 10:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de/wish/317015118 ljh230 https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de/wish/317015484 Thunderhead is the second book in the "Arc of a Scythe" series that takes place a few months after the first book. The Thunderhead is an advanced artificial intelligence that controls 90% of the world. The Thunderhead has taken over most government, law enforcement, and almost everything else , and its doing a great job. But there is one thing that it can't interfere with, The Scythedom. But it has been watching, and it does not like what it sees.]]> 2019-01-02 10:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de/wish/317015484 ljh230 https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de/wish/317017525 Neal has won two major awards in his career. One is the Golden Kite Award for Fiction, which he won for his book, Challenger Deep. The other is the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, which he also won for Challenger deep.]]> 2019-01-02 11:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de/wish/317017525 ljh230 https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de/wish/317400109 Dry is Neal's most recent book that came out in October of 2018. In California, the wildfires and droughts keep escalating Everyone is forced to conserve water until one fateful day, when the taps ran out... Neighbors were forced to fight in the search for water, and when the fires start, there's no stopping them. When one teen's parents don't return, she is forced to make devastating decisions for her family.]]> 2019-01-04 10:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ljh230/24zsnx7k66de/wish/317400109