While removing the tonsils (tonsillectomy) is sometimes recommended for tonsil stones, this carries a significant risk of pain and bleeding and should only be used as an absolute last resort, if at all. Also, you are still at risks of strep throat without tonsils, a deadly mouth disease almost similar to sore throat.
Running Out of Time is a novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix, published in 1996.
The author described it as a novella, but the panel for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 qualified the book as a short novel. Thus, this novella was shortlisted for an award for best original novel. A similar case is found with a much older work of fiction: The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London.