K. A. Holt, Author . Random $15.99 (262p) ISBN 978-0-375-84556-7
Even though he lives in the year 2174, Mike Stellar is a fairly normal preteen: good-humored, slightly disgruntled when it comes to schoolwork and a bit of a troublemaker along with his hyper best friend Stinky (“the human embodiment of the...
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K.A. Holt. Chronicle, $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4521-2700-2
In this affecting verse novel, Holt (Brains for Lunch) traces 12-year-old Kevin evolution from bully to bullied while highlighting the solace he finds writing poetry. Kevin sees his peers as "easy prey" and feels all-powerful as "king of the seventh
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K.A. Holt. Chronicle, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4521-3477-2
Twelve-year-old Timothy is spending a year under house arrest after stealing a wallet to pay for medicine for his sick baby brother, Levi. To avoid juvie, he must reflect on what he did in a court-ordered journal, in addition to weekly visits with a
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K.A. Holt. S&S/McElderry, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4814-3626-7
A teenager begins to question everything she thought she knew after she and her sister are kidnapped. The abductors: creatures native to the tiny, inhospitable moon on which 13-year-old Rae Darling’s colony has struggled to survive for decades....
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K.A. Holt, illus. by Gahan Wilson, Roaring Brook/Porter, $15.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59643-629-9
Gross-out humor and romantic tension enmesh in this clever novel told in haiku about a zombie (aka Z) named Loeb who falls for a "Lifer," Siobhan. Raising the stakes on the usual social jockeying of middle school, the Zs eat brains for lunch, which...
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