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.
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.
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.«
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?
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
"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"--
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 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 she imagines flying over her 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.
