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2010
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Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: smart, funny, dramatic, an...
2024
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**From the Printz Award-winning author of Dig comes a young adult novel about a teenage boy struggling with the scars left by a dysfunctional family.“A.S. King is one of the best Y.A. writers working today.”—New York Times Book Review“A compulsively readable portrait of two imperfect teens learning to trust each other and themselves.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“A nuanced portrayal. . . . This is a story about healing.”—Publishers W...
2024
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**From the award-winning author of Dig comes a weird and insightful novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family's secrets.“A roller coaster of a book, Pick the Lock is one thrill after another.”—NPR“Updated and recast for a new generation, this is a much-needed, thought-provoking tale of survival and triumph.”—BCCB, starred review**Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane’s mother tours the world to s...
The Collectors: Stories
(Printz Medal Winner)
2023
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**MICHAEL L. PRINTZ MEDAL WINNTER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors comes an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.“An eclectic, poignant, and introspective treasure trove.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“Masterfully collected and worth slowing down to absorb.”—School Library Journal, starred review**From David Levithan’s story about a non-binary kid colle...
2022
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Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write.When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged.Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story.But who?Even though his unreliable dad tell...
The Quest For Hope
Invisible Battles, #1
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- Invisible Battles
2016
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"The Quest For Hope" is the exciting new novel that thrills as it inspires.Into the company of the crowded hall entered an Erela: a warrior, seemingly sculpted of diamonds--the many facets of his form catching the light and releasing it in dazzling patterns. He paused for a moment, facing the King and Queen of Novus who were seated on the raised dais at the far end of the room. Then, he began to move slowly and purposefully toward them. His dark eyes pierced deeply...
2011
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Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. He didn't ask for a father who never got over it. He didn't ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. And he didn't ask to be the target of Nader McMillan's relentless bullying, which has finally gone too far.But Lucky has a secret--one that helps him wade through the daily mundane torture of his life. In his dreams, Lucky escapes to the war-...
DreadfulWater
A DreadfulWater Mystery
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- DreadfulWater
2012
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The award-winning, bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian masters the comic mystery novel in this series opener, starring ex-cop Thumps DreadfulWaterThumps DreadfulWater is a Cherokee ex-cop trying to make a living as a photographer in the small town of Chinook, somewhere in the northwestern United States. But he doesn’t count on snapping shots of a dead body languishing in a newly completed luxury condo resort bu...
11/22/63
A Novel
2011
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM MASTER STORYTELLER STEPHEN KINGA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARNAMED ONE OF THE 50 BEST THRILLER BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY BY THE NEW YORK TIMESWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEOn November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the wo...
2017
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**From the award-winning author of As the Passengers comes a witty, snarky tale of love and family, revenge and reincarnation, and pirates.“Exciting, fascinating, spellbinding. I’d follow Saffron into the briny deep.”—Heather Brewer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod“One of the best YA writers working today.”—The New York Times**In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage buccaneer Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pi...
2019
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**MICHAEL L. PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER • This thought-provoking novel highlights how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.“Dig will make you question the confines of your comfort zone—if you have one.”—Erin Entrada Kelly, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist“Will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and ...
2012
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In this truly original portrayal of a girl struggling to break free of society's definitions, Printz Honor author A.S. King asks readers to question everything—and offers hope to those who will never stop seeking real love.Astrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's lack of interest tell her they're the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching a...