A.S. King

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...

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. Only a generation removed from being Pennsylvania potato farmers, property developers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings now sit atop a seven-figure bank account—wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult...

A new edition of Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King's brilliant and bizarre story of teenage trauma and standardised tests. I Crawl Through It is a masterful tale where "Kurt Vonnegut might have written a book like this." - New York Times Book Review. Four accomplished teenagers are on the verge of explosion. The anxieties they face at every...

16-year-old Sarah is an aspiring artist who has dropped out of school and believes she's in the middle of an existential crisis. Maybe that explains why she keeps encountering different versions of herself all across town. When a significant family secret is unveiled, Sarah embarks on a journey to uncover what went wrong on the day six years ago when...

I’m looking for the Real Solution. I think it has something to do with giving a shit about people… To understand anything is to understand energy / anger / love. A surreal and timely novel about isolation and human connection from Michael L. Printz Award-winner A.S. King. Time has stopped. It’s been 23 June 2020 for nearly a year. Sixteen-year-old...

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family. Pick the Lock introduces Jane Vandermaker-Cook, a girl who longs to have her mother back. As Jane's mother travels the world to support the family, Jane finds herself living in a Victorian mansion with...

From two-time Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family. Pick the Lock introduces us to Jane Vandermaker-Cook, who is desperate to have her mother back in her life. While Jane's mother travels the world to support the family, Jane resides in a...

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, The Collectors: Stories is an anthology of tales about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections. Winner of the 2024 Michael L. Printz Award A National Bestseller From David Levithan's story about a non-binary kid collecting pieces of other...

Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by sending 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...

A new edition of Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King's stunning portrait of a life lived on reality TV. Reality Boy "A.S. King is one of the best Y.A. writers working today." - New York Times Book Review Gerald Faust knows exactly when he started feeling angry – the day his mother invited a reality television crew into his...

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections. Winner of the 2024 Michael L. Printz Award A National Bestseller From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie...