TY - BOOK AU - Shusterman,Neal TI - Scythe T2 - Arc of a scythe SN - 9781406379242 (pbk.) : U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Walker Books KW - Dystopias KW - Young adult fiction KW - Older Teenage Fiction KW - ukslc KW - General N1 - Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2016 N2 - In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice and as Citra and Rowan come up against a terrifyingly corrupt Scythedom, it becomes clear that the winning apprentice's first task will be to kill the loser ER -