Speak outside the approved lexicon and face banishment. Patricia Forde (Goodreads Author), Jolle Dreidemy (Illustrator) 3.40 avg rating 20 ratings published 2010 6 editions.

I guess, her just always being able to sneak around successfully seemed pretty memorable. In the city of Ark, speech is constrained to five hundred sanctioned words. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. What was one of the most memorable moments of The List? In fact, I'd argue they'd just get resourceful, obeying the 'letter of the law' and not the 'meaning of the law.' But, despite the glaring flaws, it was a fun story, and spurred some amusing discussion among my family. My point is, refusing to teach a word doesn't inherantly make humans dumber. The second book in that series, The Last Lie, will be available in August Review: The List by Patricia Forde. If you've ever told a group of kids they can't talk, it's irrelevant because they sure will still get their messages accross. The List, published in, was her first novel. But the concept is pretty strange, since humans would have just immediatelly adapted with say, secret signs etc.

This is like, the worlds goofiest dystopian- where they decide the human language is the enemy, so they eliminate words. Listened to this on a road trip with my kids. She has written two plays and several television drama series for children and teenagers. She has previously published Picture Books and Early Readers for children in Irish and in English. If you could sum up The List in three words, what would they be? Patricia Forde lives in Galway, in the west of Ireland, with her husband Padraic and two teenage children.

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