SOLVED. Fantasy: a girl & boy who can hear each other's thoughts

[Dave]

- adult or young adult fantasy; maybe a trilogy
- I read this around 2005
- occurs on a planet
- lead teen boy and girl , and maybe others, can hear each other's thoughts;
- boy is being excommunicated by his community - maybe a community of only males; maybe this is a generational ritual;
- in one book the indigenous "creatures" are suppressed as sub-human;
- in one book, maybe the last, the girl's parents are arriving from Earth in a spaceship while the girl and boy are trying to help the good guys defeat the bad guys in a war that has been waging

[Dave]

SOLVED: a 2nd try Google search led me to the Patrick Ness "Chaos Walking" trilogy: "The Knife of Never Letting Go" (2008), "The Ask and the Answer" (2009), and "Monsters of Men" (2010).