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EVERYBODY SEES THE ANTS In Stores Now.
(Paperback coming Sept 2012)
2012 ALA/YALSA Top Ten Books for Young Adults pick, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick, A Junior Library Guild Selection, A Cybils Award Finalist, A Capitol Choices Pick, An Andre Norton Award Nominee, a Pennsylvania School Librarian Association's 2011 Top 40 List....
"Blending magic and realism, this is a subtly written, profoundly honest novel about a kid falling through the cracks and pulling himself back up." --Booklist (starred)
“King remarkably channels fifteen-year-old Lucky, creating one of the most believable teen male characters in young adult fiction.”--VOYA (starred)
“It’s a smart, funny, and passionate novel that embodies the idea that “It Gets Better”—when you take action.” --Publishers Weekly (starred)
“King's heartfelt tale easily blends realism and fantasy.... A haunting but at times funny tale about what it means to want to take one's life, but rising above it so that living becomes the better option.” --School Library Journal (starred)
"Compelling food for thought about the things we can control and the things we can’t." -- BCCB (Starred)
"King’s themes of torture, physical and emotional imprisonment, and bullying connect in satisfying ways in this improbably witty and heartwarming story." --The Horn Book (Starred)
ASK THE PASSENGERS Coming October 23, 2012
Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by sending her love to the passengers in the airplanes flying overhead. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it.
Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to--another girl named Dee. There's no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she's trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love--and asking the right questions--will affect the passengers' lives, and her own, for the better.
In this unmistakably original portrayal of a girl struggling to break free of society's boxes and definitions, Printz Honor author A.S. King asks readers to question everything--and offers hope to those who will never stop seeking and sharing real love.
PLEASE IGNORE VERA DIETZ Paperback Edition -- In Stores Now!
Michael L. Printz Honor Book 2011, A Junior Library Guild selection for Fall 2010, An Edgar Allen Poe Award nominee, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick, Indie Next List Pick for Teens, Kirkus Reviews Best Books for Teens 2010, Cooperative Children's Book Center's CCBC Choices 2011. . .
Eighteen-year-old 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, or even the police. But will she emerge and clear his name? Does she even want to?
An edgy, gripping story, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising.
DEAR BULLY: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories -- In stores now!
"With authority often turning a blind eye and cyber-bullying rampant, this timely collection is an excellent resource, especially for group discussion, and the appended, annotated list of websites and further reading extends its usefulness." --Booklist
"There are so many schools that have an “anti-bullying” policy in place. They are nice. . .but like any initiative or program untended, they are failing. Kids are still hurting. Your intentions were good, but they were not good enough. The school that earnestly undertakes the problem of bullying in the hallways would make this book a part of its communications with parents and would read selections from the book as a means of sharing powerful anecdotes from familiar names/faces from the students’ reading." --Paul W. Hankins
EDUCATOR RESOURCES
Download the PLEASE IGNORE VERA DIETZ Discussion Guide HERE.
Download the PLEASE IGNORE VERA DIETZ Shelf Talker HERE.
Download the THE DUST OF 100 DOGS Discussion Guide HERE.
Download the THE DUST OF 100 DOGS Shelf Talker HERE.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH:
This print, "Corona I" ©1994 Mark D. Thellmann, has been hanging above my desk since I started writing. Mark was a teacher of mine at the Art Institute of Philadelphia back when cameras had film.
It's an enlarged reproduction of a manipulated Time-Zero Polaroid, which means the original was hand- manipulated as opposed to computer manipulated, and exists as a one-of-a-kind. Probably somewhere in New Jersey.
