A. S. King

Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.

"Set in a parallel version of America where time has stopped, the novel tells the story of one teenage girl trying to untangle her toxic family's secrets--and maybe restart the world's clocks in the process"--

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Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.

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Everybody sees the ants

When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name.

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

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 airplanes fly overhead. She doesn't know the passengers inside, but they're the only people who won't judge her when she asks them her most personal questions . . . like what it means that she's falling in love with a girl. As her secret relationship becomes more intense and her friends demand answers, Astrid has nowhere left to turn. She can't share the truth with anyone except the people at thirty thousand feet, and they don't even know she's there. But little does Astrid know just how much even the tiniest connection will affect these strangers' lives--and her own--for the better. 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.

Ask the Passengers

16-year-old Sarah is an aspiring artist who has dropped out of school and thinks she's in the middle of an existential crisis. Maybe that explains why she keeps running into different versions of herself all across town. When a big family secret is revealed, Sarah sets out to discover what went wrong on the day six years ago when her brother Bruce left home for good.

Still Life with Tornado

A surreal and searing dive into the tangled secrets of a wealthy white family in suburban Pennsylvania and the terrible cost the family's children pay to maintain the family name. ★"A.S. King's novels...are in another solar system entirely."--Bookpage, starred review The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, and First-Class Malcolm. These are the five teenagers lost in the Hemmings family's maze of tangled secrets. Only a generation removed from being Pennsylvania potato farmers, Gottfried and Marla Hemmings managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now sit atop a seven-figure bank account--wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult children or their teenage grandchildren. "Because we want them to thrive," Marla always says. What does thriving look like? Like carrying a snow shovel everywhere. Like selling pot at the Arby's drive-thru window. Like a first-class ticket to Jamaica between cancer treatments. Like a flea-circus in a double-wide. Like the GPS coordinates to a mound of dirt in a New Jersey forest. As the rot just beneath the surface of the Hemmings' precious suburban respectability begins to spread, the far-flung grandchildren gradually find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable prose and keen insight into teenage experience, A.S. King explores how a corrosive culture of polite, affluent white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can save themselves.

In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A.S. King tells the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long last--a girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present needs her even more. Graduating from high school is a time of limitless possibilities--but not for Glory, who has no plan for what's next. Her mother committed suicide when Glory was only four years old, and she's never stopped wondering if she will eventually go the same way...until a transformative night when she begins to experience an astonishing new power to see a person's infinite past and future. From ancient ancestors to many generations forward, Glory is bombarded with visions--and what she sees ahead of her is terrifying: A tyrannical new leader raises an army. Women's rights disappear. A violent second civil war breaks out. And young girls vanish daily, sold off or interned in camps. Glory makes it her mission to record everything she sees, hoping her notes will somehow make a difference. She may not see a future for herself, but she'll do anything to make sure this one doesn't come to pass.

Glory O'Briens History of the Future

An emotionally damaged seventeen-year-old boy in Pennsylvania who was once an infamous reality television show star, meets a girl from another dysfunctional family, and she helps him out of his angry shell.

Reality Boy

"O movimento é impossível." É o que Astrid Jones, 17 anos, aprendeu na sua aula de filosofia. E, vivendo na pequena cidade em que mora, ela começa a acreditar que isso é mesmo verdade. São sempre as mesmas pessoas, as mesmas fofocas, a mesma visão de mundo limitada, como se estivessem todos presos em uma caverna, nunca enxergando nada além. Nesse ambiente, ela não tem com quem desabafar suas angústias, e por isso deita-se em seu jardim, olha os aviões no céu, e expõe suas dúvidas mais secretas aos passageiros, já que eles nunca irão julgá-la. Em seu conflito solitário, ela se vê dividida entre dois mundos: um em que é livre para ser quem é de verdade e dar vazão ao que vai em seu íntimo, e outro em que precisa se enquadrar desconfortavelmente em convenções sociais. Em um retrato original de uma garota que luta para se libertar de definições ultrapassadas, este livro leva os leitores a questionarem tudo e oferece esperança para aqueles que nunca deixarão de buscar o significado do amor verdadeiro.

Os dois mundos de Astrid Jones

Zrnko predsudkov a rasizmu je zasiate v každom z nás. A stačí málo, aby vyklíčilo. Zrnko predsudkov a rasizmu je zasiate v každom z nás. A stačí málo, aby vyklíčilo. Hemmingsovci sú presvedčení, že ich sa to netýka. Chystajú sa na oslavu Veľkej noci, akoby ich veľkolepá výzdoba a varená šunka mohli zachrániť. Ich najmladšie potomstvo, piati tínedžeri, ktorí to s rodinou už nemôžu vydržať, padajú do tunela neistoty. Kam sa z tejto rodiny vytratila láska? Keď však tínedžeri začnú kopať trochu hlbšie, zisťujú, že sú tou generáciou, ktorá môže všetko zmeniť k lepšiemu.

V tejto rodine kopte hlbšie

In the late 17th century, teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was slain and cursed to living 100 lives as a dog before returning to a human body--with her memories intact. Now a contemporary American teenager, all she needs to escape is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica.

The Dust of 100 Dogs

Patrick Ness

Bali Rai

Sophie McKenzie

Andrew Smith

Anne Fine

Melvin Burgess

Jenny Valentine

Mary Hooper

Keith Gray, Editor

A travesty. A violation. An ecstasy. A disappointment. An instant. A lie. A theft. A rite of passage. Whatever you call it, there's only one first time. A.S. King, Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Anne Fine, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine, Mary Hooper, and Andrew Smith. Some of today's leading international YA authors contributed to this hard-hitting collection of original short stories: some funny, some moving, some haunting, but all revolving around the same subject—virginity.

Losing It

Vera Dietzová sa učí dobre, ale nevytŕča z davu. Prečo? Lebo jej otec je abstinujúci alkoholik, ktorý musel veľmi rýchlo dospieť, aby sa sám postaral o dcéru. Stále jej opakuje, že treba tvrdo makať, a tak Vera roznáša pizzu. A po práci pije, lebo nevie, ako inak uniknúť z tohto sveta, pred vlastnými traumami a strachmi. Vere totiž zomrel sused, donedávna najlepší kamoš a platonická láska v jednom. Vera mu chcela pomôcť, no doma sa riadili heslom: Nevšímaj si to. Ale toho má už plné zuby!

Veru Dietzovú si láskavo nevšímajte

In the dark land of Novus, a Light is beginning to move. As the true High King attempts to rally his forces, crystalline beings move among mortals, seen and heard only by those specially attuned to their existence. One of the Erela stands supreme above all the rest. Known as the Dark One, Zohar has all but succeeded in erasing the name of the High King from the hearts and minds of everyone in Novus. It is now up to the rest of the Erela to stop his wrath. In an unknown community tucked away in a hidden valley, an Erela recruits a young apprentice to help carry out their important mission. As Levi embarks on a dangerous quest to fetch a princess and bring her to Zion to fulfill her destiny, she is struggling to understand why she has been chosen to be the new Queen of Novus. After twelve-year-old Aliatta learns the truth about her identity, her life intertwines with Levi’s. As the pair begins the long trek to Zion, they have no idea that the Dark One’s fury has just begun. The Quest for Hope begins an exciting saga of good versus evil as a young apprentice and a princess journey through a perilous land so she can fulfill her purpose to become their new queen.

Invisible Battles:

The Quest for Hope

A travesty. A violation. An ecstasy. A disappointment. An instant. A lie. A theft. A rite of passage. Whatever you call it, there's only one first time. A.S. King, Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Anne Fine, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine, Mary Hooper, and Andrew Smith. Some of today's leading international YA authors contributed to this hard-hitting collection of original short stories: some funny, some moving, some haunting but all revolving around the same subject?virginity.

A. S. King

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