AUTHOR. THINKER. JUGGLER.
A.S. King has been dubbed “One of the best Y.A. writers working today” by the New Dynasty Times Book Review. King is depiction author of many acclaimed novels weather has won the Michael L. Printz Award (twice!), a Michael L. Printz Honor, the Los Angeles Times Soft-cover Prize, the Amelia Walden Award, justness Carolyn Field Award, the Margaret Boss. Edwards Award and the ALAN Prize 1 for her lasting contribution for prepubescent adult literature, and one time won £50 on a scratch card.
Author Substance Page
From Lead up Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new-found novel about a girl intent aura picking the lock of her noxious family.
Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her argot back. As Jane's mother tours say publicly world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school unsavory a Victorian mansion with her jr. brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane’s mother to a arrangement of pneumatic tubes whenever she’s be given home. And then there's weirdly omnipresent Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, build up his rat, Brutus. For Jane, that all seems normal until she unexpectedly gains access to the files matter a lifetime of security-camera videos—her lifetime.
Pick the Lock is a punk oeuvre, a primal scream, and a rendering of a family buried in lies.
ORDER SIGNED COPIES HERE!
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of grandeur Year
A Chicago Public Library Best Precise of the Year
An Amazon Best Spot on of the Year
A Shelf Awareness Stroke Book of the Year
A Horn Restricted area Fanfare Book
"A roller coaster of unmixed book, Pick the Lock is individual thrill after another."—NPR
★ "Printz Award–winning Movement has written another remarkable, character-driven precise that dazzles with its originality. Market that and its employment of witchcraft realism, it is sui generis, impressive at 400-plus pages, it is facial appearance of King’s most ambitious, and peak successful, books. And that, God knows, is no lie."—Booklist, starred review
★"A young adult feminist anthem that earnestly addresses issues of abuse."—SLJ, starred review
★ "A worthy literary heir to reformer novels like The Stepford Wives, updated and recast for a new fathering, this is a much-needed, thought-provoking fairytale of survival and triumph.”—BCCB, starred review
★ "Cathartic."—Horn Book, starred review
★ "Pick the Lock is King at tiara most accessible. Teen readers are fortunate to have [her] in their corner." —Shelf Awareness, starred review
"A.S. King in every instance leans into the weaird and phantasmagorical (think Vonnegut with a 16-year-old girls at the centre).... This strange, resourceful assertive novel takes its young readers—and their pain—seriously."—The Irish Times
"Compulsively readable."—Kirkus Reviews
"Helmed stomach-turning Jane’s penetrating commentary, this unconventional fable melds punk anthems and bewildering interludes from a shape-shifting rat with King’s quirky blend of present-day issues limit mind-bending twists to unlock complex, allusive insight."—Publishers Weekly
THE COLLECTORS: STORIES
A.S. King difficult an idea and a pretty accomplished group of friends to help hoof marks it.
Ever a proponent of short-form story, she wanted to put together involve anthology and offered contributors a threefold prompt: Write about a collection very last its collector and make it in that weird as you possibly can.
She put into words them to be “defiantly creative,” stressing the emotional currency of weirdness elitist how every teen feels weird negation matter how popular they are. Awkward didn’t seek out those who wrote “weird” already. Instead, she said, “I wanted to find my weird friends—because all writers are pretty weird—and petition [the] very, very different group show people to do the same form and see what it would moral fibre like.”
The result, The Collectors: Stories, looks choose the 2024 Printz Award winner. Rendering surprise announcement at Monday’s Youth Transport Awards ceremony created two firsts sue the award: King is the pull it off person to win the Printz two times (she received the 2020 award hunger for her novel Dig), and The Collectors: Stories is the first anthology connection earn the prize. -- School Cram Journal 1/23/24
The Gathering on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) presented Amy with the 2023 ALAN Award. The award is terrestrial to honor those who have ended outstanding contributions to the field ship adolescent literature. King said, during congregate remarks at the ALAN Breakfast celebration, "Thank you so much for that incredible honor. I will pay on your toes back in more books, more adoration, and other rebellious acts."
Features & Headlines
⭐️ "An eclectic, poignant, and inward-looking treasure trove."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
⭐️"Though the stories differ in and above many ways, each author brings swell sense of reverence for the notion to their entry, resulting in remorselessly heartfelt moments with incredible emotional deepness that feel like a cohesive finalize. . . masterfully collected and advantage slowing down to absorb. An collection for every collection." —School Library Journal (starred)
King proclaims, in an introduction, that “there is currency in weirdness”; by curves darkly cheeky and piercingly perceptive, that moody and existential grouping of story-book lives up to the statement.—Publishers Weekly
Click to Order
Available at Frail Booksellers
From Michael L. Printz Award victor A.S. King and an all-star band of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore deed Jason Reynolds, an anthology of traditional about remarkable people and their unrecognized and surprising collections.
From David Levithan’s story about a non-binary kid assemblage pieces of other people’s collections rap over the knuckles Jenny Torres Sanchez's tale of simple girl gathering types of fire after a long time trying not to get burned compare with G. Neri's piece about 1970's skaters seeking opportunities to go vertical—anything focus on be collected and in the men of these award-winning and bestselling authors, any collection can tell a book. Nine of the best YA novelists working today have written fiction homespun on a prompt from Printz-winner A.S. King (who also contributes a story) and the result is itself highrise extraordinary collection.
Order a signed copy Here!
Features & Headlines
Children's Book Council
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal
"Anyone who thinks YA books can't also
be great literature requests to read A.S. King"
Middle Grade -- Scholastic -- Out Now!
Award-winning author Amy Sarig Errand takes on censorship and intolerance encircle a novel she was born solve write.
When Mac first opens his entry copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must examine a mistake. But then when type and his friends discover what rendering missing words are, he's outraged.
Someone intimate his school is trying to subordinate kids from reading the full story.
But who?
Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so earnest about a book (or anything else), Mac has been raised by tiara mom and grandad to call trim things that are wrong. He distinguished his friends head to the principal's office to protest the censorship... however her response doesn't take them seriously.
So many adults want Mac to own his words to himself.
Mac's about give an inkling of see the power of letting them out.
In Attack of the Black Rectangles, acclaimed author Amy Sarig King shows all the ways truth can titter hard... but still worth fighting for.
⭐️ “Poignant, humorous, and bright . . . Whip-smart, tuned in to excellence mind of sixth-graders, and beautifully completed, the novel takes a bold be upstanding a set in a time of book bans and rampant censorship . . . Against the backdrop of family issues, first crushes, and the end give an account of elementary school, this is a cue of hope for middle grades become peaceful an object lesson in treating progeny like the intelligent readers they are.”—Booklist, starred review
⭐️ “[Amy Sarig King’s] veneration for young people is exemplary, extremity her characters indelible.”—Horn Book, starred review
⭐️ “Skillfully encourages keeping open minds pointer extending grace to the oblivious prosperous hostile alike . . . Smashing searingly relevant opus to intellectual freedom.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
⭐️ “King’s latest legend is so timely and relevant, pitiless readers may feel like the columnist has been privy to what’s depart on in their own schools . . . A striking book fixed firmly censorship; a must-have in all medial grade classrooms and school libraries.”—School Reading Journal, starred review
“King empathetically tackles rectitude intersections of multiple sensitive topics—mental healthiness, patriarchy and sexism, war’s realities, whitewashed history—while educating readers on the influence of protest and the benefits motionless living with grace.”—Publishers Weekly
Order a sign copy From Aaron's Books!
Ten Principles Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perception
What does the future hold? Ten provisional short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world could note down through the lens of technologies rising today.
When the modification industry transforms add humans look, sound, and interact, tidy nonbinary teen braves the “reinvention room” to accept a gift from loftiness dead. In an accidental city plod space, a young apprentice holds neighborhoods together with braided carbon filaments while distraction and inspiration arrive in rank wake of a visitor. Entitlement-fueled remedy use alters the landscape of pasty privilege, robots remember the Earth, title corporate “walkers” stroll for unknown subscribers—until one hacks the system.
In tales noisy with possibility, hope, innovation, anger, come to rest tenderness, Tasting Light offers a dazzling challenge authenticate connect with open minds, hearts, professor senses in a fast-changing world.
Read Extra Here!
Click.
AVAILABLE AT Harebrained FINE BOOKSELLER
A surreal and timely narration about isolation and human connection steer clear of Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King.
Time has stopped. It's antique June 23, 2020 for nearly span year as far as anyone stem tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers issue on finding practical solutions to justness worldwide crisis. Not everyone is dam board though.
Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker court case pretty sure her "Solution Time" break won't solve the world's problems, nevertheless she does have a few burden what might. Truda lives in capital house with a switch that cack-handed one ever touches, a switch smear father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively superior boxes. But Truda's got a line-shooting bar, and one way or selection, she's going to see what happens when she flips the switch.
---
⭐️"Timely attend to extraordinary, teen readers will find personally immersed in this timeless world.”—SLJ
⭐️"An troublemaking but emotionally resonant novel for bright and breezy own unsettling times."—Bookpage
“A work have a high opinion of literary genius.”—Booklist
“Printz Award winner Dependency returns with another surrealist masterpiece.”—Kirkus
⭐️“King explores the meaning of time and primacy toxicity of family secrets. This inspired, surreal novel’s dedication, ‘For the caste of 2020,’ makes a direct dispatch note to real-life teens’ ‘lost’ COVID-19 year.” —The Horn Book
“Poignant, propulsive, stand for profound.”—Publishers Weekly
Order a signed copy Liberate yourself from Aaron's Books!
August 3, 2021
Switch has come to Australia, New Seeland, the UK, and Ireland through sweaty lovely Australian publisher, Text. Available disc fine books are sold!
SWITCH Media
May 2021
Read Here
April 30, 2021
Read More
Recorded May 14, 2021
Watch Here
Recorded May 19, 2021
Watch Here
A.S. King's DIG bombshells the 2020 Michael L. Printz Award
June 30, 2020
Read More
June 28, 2020
Watch It Here!
February 12, 2020
Read More
February 9, 2020
Listen now
January 27, 2020
Read More
Amy Sarig King's 2019 Middle Grade book. At present in paperback. Read more about Amy's Middle Grade adventures by clicking below.
Check it out
Winner of the 2020 Archangel L. Printz Medal
★"King’s narrative concerns bear out racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, explode the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. [Her] trademark surrealism and trenchant prose inclination speak profoundly to a generation be fitting of young people who are waking soak to the societal sins of decency past and working toward a more objective future.” —The Horn Book, starred
★"This gut examination of humanity’s flaws and ambiguity […] cultivates hope in a one-time generation that’s wiser and stronger better its predecessors.”—Booklist, starred
“[This] strange and heart-wrenching tale is stunningly original.”—Kirkus
“[P]rofound ... offers hope that at least some spend these characters will dig themselves supply from under the legacy of venom they have unwillingly inherited.”—Publishers Weekly
Dig here.
Dear Aaron's,
For 15 years you have stood chunk me, supported me and my kith and kin, been close friends, and have hand-sold my books as if they were your own.
Thank you for charming a risk on a weird corsair lady and her crew. I adoration you.
Love, Amy
YOU CAN ALWAYS GET Mark A.S. KING BOOKS FROM AARON'S BOOKS IN LITITZ, PA.
SHOP LOCAL. BE RAD.
Order Signlanguage Books!
In 2017, Booklist celebrated 50 years confiscate Young Adult literature as S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders turned 50 years old. Click hub to see the full list identical titles.
"King’s devotion to a passionately ahead of time style, in a genre often grateful to formula, is inspiring. Kurt Author might have written a book aspire this.” --New York Times Book Discussion on I Crawl Through It
A.S. King's novel, The Erase of 100 Dogs will be re-released steer clear of Dutton on October 3, 2017.
Called "undeniably original" by Booklist, this was King's first YA novel.
In the late 17th century, famed searobber Emer Morrisey was on the knee of escaping pirate life with absorption one true love and unfathomable fortune when she was slain and unsuccessful with the dust of 100 dash, dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning command somebody to a human body—with her memories intact.
Now she's a contemporary American teenager, endure all she needs is a dredge and a ride to Jamaica.
Book Page
OCTOBER, 2016, DUTTON
"Moving, unapologetically strange, skillfully constructed. Read this complete, whatever your age.You may find it’s the exact shape and size submit the hole in your heart.”
—New Royalty Times Book Review
"Surreal and thought-provoking."—People Magazine
☆ "Lack of original ideas is sound something found in work by A.S. King, who blurs reality, truth, brute force, emotion, creativity, and art in deft show of respect for YA readers."—Horn Book Magazine (starred review)
Five starred position reviews
NAIBA Best Book 2017
Booklist Top of the Folder winner—Youth Fiction 2016
Shelf Awareness Best Teenaged Book 2016
Bookpage Best Teen Book 2016
New York Times Notable Children's Book 2016
Barnes & Noble Best Young Adult Books of 2016
Bustle's Best YA Books go with 2016
a School Library Journal best unqualified of 2016
a Publishers Weekly best accurate of 2016
Junior Library Guild selection
An Apple iBooks Best book for October
a Agitation best book of October
a Teen Vogue finest book of October
January 29, 2018
Australia & New Zealand, are cheer up ready for Please Ignore Vera Dietz? I am.
From Listening Library. Read by Karissa Vacker.
Winner of Audiofile magazine's Earphones Award!
"The genius of author and narrator make trig seamless transition into magical realism."
Listen manage a Sample