Chaos Walking

Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown, a small community with a peculiarity (apart from the fact that there are no women): everyone can hear the thoughts of others, which is known as Noise, a constant din that never stops. Todd is happy because his thirteenth birthday, when he will finally become a man, is only a month away. But then, on one of his walks through the woods with his faithful dog, he finds something unexpected that will change his world forever: silence. Or, as Todd defines it: a hole in the Noise.