A. M. Jenkins, Author . HarperCollins $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-029099-3
Written in the second-person, Jenkins's (Breaking Boxes) engaging novel depicts a high school senior and football star who is afraid to let anyone know he's depressed and suicidal. Austin Reid's small town life, which involved drinking...
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A. M. Jenkins, Author . HarperTempest $6.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-447255-5
A high school football star is afraid to let anyone know he's depressed and suicidal. "The author handles the heavy subject matter sensitively, and the pacing will keep even reluctant readers glued to the book," wrote PW. Ages 12-up. (A
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A. M. Jenkins, Author . HarperTempest $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-623968-2
There is redemption and growth at the end of Jenkins's (Damage; Breaking Boxes) brittle high school tale—but whether readers will want to spend a couple hundred pages with the loutish narrator is another matter. Sophomore Colt Trammel...
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A. M. Jenkins, Author . HarperTempest $15.99 (244p) ISBN 978-0-06-054607-6
After a rocky divorce, 17-year-old Evan's mother buys a Victorian fixer-upper where she can write and, with Evan and his young sister Libby, make a home. Along with the stained glass window and gingerbread outfittings, comes the spirit of a girl
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A. M. Jenkins, Author . HarperTeen $15.99 (218p) ISBN 978-0-06-083568-2
Arebellious demon (who prefers the term ”fallen angel”) named Kiriel takes over the body of 17-year-old Shaun Simpson moments before the teen steps in front of a speeding cement mixer in Jenkins’s (Beating Heart
) latest. Eager to...
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A. M. Jenkins, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (362p) ISBN 978-0-06-054604-5
Trading demonic possession for vampirism, Jenkins (Repossessed
) explores the existential crises of a clan of “hemovores,” or “hemes.” In her world, hemes feed on humans or “omnis” (short for omnivores), but do so
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A. M. Jenkins, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-32513-4
Winner of the Delacorte Press Prize for a first YA novel, this earnest drama's message of tolerance is loud and clear. Charlie Calmont's mother ""drank herself to death"" and his only friend moved away. Now he's starting sophomore year fighting with
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A. M. Jenkins, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-22717-5
According to PW, ""Though the plot may read like an after-school special on accepting homosexuals, [the first-person narrator's] funny, angry voice will keep up readers' interest."" Ages 14-up. (Feb.) n
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