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A. S. King

    A.S. King wird für ihre literarische Stärke gefeiert und liefert konsequent Romane, die sich mit den Komplexitäten des Erwachsenwerdens mit einer ausgeprägten Mischung aus roher Ehrlichkeit und scharfem Witz auseinandersetzen. Ihre Schriften werden für ihre intellektuelle Tiefe und unerschrockene Auseinandersetzung mit der Realität anerkannt, was ihr Kritikerlob und die Hingabe der Leser eingebracht hat. King scheut sich nicht, herausfordernde Themen anzugehen, und schafft Erzählungen, die tief berühren und lange nach der letzten Seite nachklingen. Ihre unverwechselbare Stimme und ihre bemerkenswerte Fähigkeit, authentische emotionale Landschaften einzufangen, etablieren sie als eine bedeutende Präsenz in der zeitgenössischen Jugendliteratur.

    The Year We Fell From Space
    Attack of the Black Rectangles
    The Year We Fell From Space (Scholastic Gold)
    The Quest for Hope
    Please don't hate me
    DRECK - Vergrabene Geheimnisse
    • Pick the Lock

      • 400 Seiten
      • 14 Lesestunden

      The story follows Jane, who lives in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and deceitful father while her mother travels the world. With the assistance of quirky characters like Aunt Finch and Milorad the gardener, Jane's life takes a surreal turn when she discovers a lifetime of security-camera footage. This revelation sparks her bizarre journey to reconnect with her mother, leading her to break free from her confines and create a punk opera. A.S. King's narrative blends the surreal with themes of family and self-discovery.

      Pick the Lock2024
    • Attack of the Black Rectangles

      • 298 Seiten
      • 11 Lesestunden

      When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.

      Attack of the Black Rectangles2023
      3,9
    • Attack of the Black Rectangles

      • 272 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden

      The plot centers around sixth-grader Mac, who is infuriated to find words blacked out in his copy of The Devil's Arithmetic. Determined to fight against the censorship imposed by a teacher and the school board, he rallies his friends and his quirky family to take action. This story explores themes of freedom of expression, the importance of literature, and the impact of censorship on young minds.

      Attack of the Black Rectangles2022
      4,2
    • Dreck verbirgt alles – vor allem die verdorbene Wahrheit, die droht, ausgegraben zu werden … An der Spitze der Familie Hemmings steht ein reiches Ehepaar – alte knauserige Bauern aus einer amerikanischen, weißen Vorstadt. Sie verwehren ihren eigenen Nachkommen das Vermögen, das sie zu Lebzeiten anhäuften. Aber nicht nur Kartoffeln schlugen auf ihrer Farm Wurzeln, sondern auch Hass, Neid und Rassismus. Amy Sarig King gehört laut der New York Times im Bereich der Jugendliteratur zu den besten zeitgenössischen Autoren. Dreck wurde ausgezeichnet mit dem Michael L. Printz Award. Der Roman ist ein Leseerlebnis, nicht einfach, aber herausfordernd. A. S. King: »Das Buch soll unangenehm sein. Ich würde mich ja dafür entschuldigen, aber es tut mir nicht leid.« Kirkus: »Ungewöhnliche, herzzerreißende Geschichte, meditativ und unglaublich originell.« Los Angeles Times: »King zwingt die Leser effektiv dazu, sich mit der unbequemen Realität der amerikanischen Gesellschaft auseinanderzusetzen.« Bookandfilmglobe.com: »Auch wenn in diesem Buch schreckliche Dinge passieren, erzählt King dennoch eine Geschichte der Hoffnung.«

      DRECK - Vergrabene Geheimnisse2021
      3,5
    • Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally falls in her lap it is like a sign, but a sign of what?

      The Year We Fell From Space (Scholastic Gold)2021
      4,3
    • Switch

      • 240 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden

      A surreal and timely novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to the world from the Printz Award-winning author of Dig. Time has stopped. It's been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her "Solution Time" class won't solve the world's problems, but she does have a few ideas what might. Truda lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches, a switch her father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively larger boxes. But Truda's got a crow bar, and one way or another, she's going to see what happens when she flips the switch.

      Switch2021
      3,3
    • The Year We Fell From Space

      • 272 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden

      Liberty feels like her whole world is falling from space. Can she map a new life for herself and her family before they spin too far out of reach?

      The Year We Fell From Space2020
      4,1
    • Dig

      • 400 Seiten
      • 14 Lesestunden

      A searing and dynamic novel from YA master A.S. King about tangled family secrets and white supremacy in suburban Pennsylvania, for readers of Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give

      Dig2019
      4,2
    • The Quest for Hope

      Invisible Battles: Book 1

      • 200 Seiten
      • 7 Lesestunden

      Set in the shadowy realm of Novus, a powerful force known as the Dark One, Zohar, threatens to obliterate the legacy of the High King. As the High King strives to unite his followers, the crystalline beings called Erela, invisible to most, play a crucial role in the unfolding conflict. The narrative centers on the struggle between Zohar's oppressive influence and the resistance of the remaining Erela, who must band together to restore hope and light to their world.

      The Quest for Hope2016
      4,3
    • I Crawl Through It

      • 336 Seiten
      • 12 Lesestunden

      Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of past trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope, but no one is listening. So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will even build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away...but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to fly right into it. The genius of acclaimed author A.S. King reaches new heights in this groundbreaking work of surrealist fiction; it will mesmerize readers with its deeply affecting exploration of how we crawl through traumatic experience--and find the way out.

      I Crawl Through It2016
      3,6