Pete Hautman, Author . S&S $15.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-689-86801-6
Hautman (Invisible
) explores the modernday tension between safety and freedom in this intelligent and darkly comic satire set 70 years in the future. Despite the daily dose of sedative required for all teens in the United Safer States of America,...
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Pete Hautman, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-83243-2
In a Minnesota peopled by Salem-smoking, cake-baking women and their disappointing, truant men, Hautman's faded rose Barbaraannette kills time and stakes her hopes on daily Powerball. The dumbest thing that Barbaraannette ever did was to marry her...
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Pete Hautman, Author Simon & Schuster $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-81068-8
Ingenious plotting and startling action combine to make this time-travel thriller a riveting read. Trying to escape from his violent father, Jack and his mother move into his late grandfather's mysterious house in Memory, Minn. There, the 13-year-old
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Pete Hautman, Author Simon & Schuster $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-83242-5
In relating this violent, very Midwestern comedy of errors, Hautman (Mortal Nuts) adopts a deadpan tone that has a few too many flat moments. The trouble begins when Alex Speeter, putative stepfather of Carmen Roman, asks out-of-work poker shark Joe
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Pete Hautman, Author Simon & Schuster $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-81000-3
Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard fans who have yet to discover Hautman's wryly comic, warmly human characters and madcap plots are in for a treat. Septuagenarian Axel Speeter, former roving gambler, now star taco entrepreneur at the annual Minnesota...
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Pete Hautman, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (287p) ISBN 978-0-684-80211-4
This exhilarating prequel to Drawing Dead is by turns funny and soulful and always unpredictable. Joe Crow has scraped bottom: he's lost his job as a cop for handcuffing the chief's troublesome nephew to his truck; he's got a cocaine problem; his...
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Pete Hautman, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (285p) ISBN 978-0-671-79374-6
A prolific children's nonfiction author (under the pseudonym Peter Murray) turns to adult fiction in this first-class caper novel, which involves a truly unique scam and enough memorably shady characters to fill several volumes by Elmore Leonard....
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Pete Hautman, Scholastic Press, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-545-24075-8
Showing his range, Hautman (How to Steal a Car) writes a love story that's affecting despite, or perhaps because of, its ordinariness. Wes and June know each other, vaguely, from high school, but become better acquainted when he accidentally gives...
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Pete Hautman, Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1327-6
One of the oldest tropes—a stranger comes to town—gets fresh treatment in this gripping whodunit. Sixteen-year-old Shayne Blank arrives at the police station to confess to murder; his story spills out in chapters that alternate with those of Mikey...
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Pete Hautman, Author . Scholastic Press $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-545-11318-2
Kelleigh Monahan, an atypically underprogrammed American teen, has just two assignments before the start of sophomore year: read Moby-Dick
and write a “how to” essay of “acceptable quality.” She hangs at the mall with her...
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Pete Hautman, Author . Simon Pulse $5.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-689-84428-7
"The prologue to this futuristic tale reads like an excerpt from The Hot Zone
," according to PW
. "The plot lines intertwine in a crafty climax that, like much of the novel, leaves it to readers to draw their own conclusions." Ages
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Pete Hautman, Author . Simon & Schuster $14 (303p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8465-3
Hautman's Godless
(2005) won a National Book Award for Young People's Fiction, but his impressive, sharply written new crime thriller is definitely for adults—especially those who would rather play poker than do anything else. Peeky...
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Pete Hautman, Author . Simon Pulse $7.99 (198p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0816-6
PW
called this novel, in which a rebellious high schooler starts his own church, the Chutengodians, who worship the "Ten-legged God" their town's water tower, "provocative." Ages 12-up. (Nov.)
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Pete Hautman, Author . Simon Pulse $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0504-2
PW
said of this novel, originally titled Stone Cold
, which tracks a teen's descent into the world of high-stakes poker, "Hautman's latest compellingly echoes gambling's siren call." Ages 12-up. (June)
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Pete Hautman, Author . S&S/Simon Pulse $5.99 (242p) ISBN 978-0-689-87324-9
The author traces a vampire-obsessed 16-year-old diabetic's steep slide downward as she is intellectually seduced by a middle-aged cybervamp via the Internet. "The exotic theme coupled with the heroine's highly recognizable feelings of...
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Pete Hautman, Author . S&S $15.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-689-86278-6
"Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion? All you need is a disciple or two. And a god." So says narrator Jason Bock, a high schooler rebelling against the church "outreach" program his father...
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Pete Hautman, Author . S&S $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-85048-6
Hautman, an insulin-dependent diabetic, brings an unusual perspective to the anemic horror topic with his portrayal of Lucinda Szabo, the vampire-obsessed diabetic who narrates this tale with wit and sarcasm. "Diabetics were the original, the...
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Pete Hautman, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0019-6
Hautman's 10th novel (after 2001's Rag Man) is an amiable thriller infused with the author's characteristic wit, equipped with a Rube Goldbergian plot, and featuring a roster of eccentric (to virtually outrageous) characters who keep...
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Pete Hautman, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0559-7
Can a man who has existed for years as a passive, unassuming plodder undergo a midlife epiphany and turn into a hard-charging, winner-take-all executive who no longer feels bound by the rules? Mack MacWray, a clothier from Minneapolis and the...
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Pete Hautman, Author, Jim Carroll, Illustrator . S&S $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-83118-8
The prologue to Hautman's (Mr. Was) futuristic tale reads like an excerpt from The Hot Zone: "On November 2, 2028... an eighteen-year-old Ethiopian soccer player named Worku Roba complained of a mild headache.... Seventeen hours later, his...
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Pete Hautman, Author, Pete Hautman, Illustrator . S&S $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-689-86800-9
The strength of Hautman's (Godless
) painfully sad novel is the wisecracking but clearly unreliable voice of its narrator, 17-year-old Douglas MacArthur Hanson who admits, "I'm not only disturbed, I'm obsessed." One of his...
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Pete Hautman, Author, Owen Smith, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers $16 (176p) ISBN 978-0-689-81759-5
Although this tale of a teenager's descent into the world of high-stakes poker lacks the labyrinthine yet crystal-clear plotting of Mr. Was, Hautman nonetheless holds a wild card in his hand. Denn has always been obsessed with money, but his life is
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Pete Hautman. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-545-11315-1
Hautman (The Big Crunch) demonstrates the gulf between male and female perspectives by alternating between the first-person narratives of high school juniors Adam and Lita, whose friendship is put through the wringer thanks to miscommunication,...
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Pete Hautman. Candlewick, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7418-2
In this haunting drama, Hautman (the Klaatu Diskos trilogy) gets inside the head of a teenage boy who has grown up as part of an apocalyptic Christian cult in Montana. Seventeen-year-old Jacob is part of the Grace, a community that dwells in the so-c
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Pete Hautman. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6438-3
In this engrossing sequel to The Flinkwater Factor, Ginger Crump, now 14, has some problems on her hands. An ever-increasing number of people in Flinkwater, Iowa, home to many science and software geniuses, have begun forgetting things, most...
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Pete Hautman. Candlewick, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9070-0
Hautman (Eden West) is both funny and uplifting in this good-natured story of incoming high school freshman David Miller, whose chief talent is the ability to eat an entire pizza in under five minutes. When an accidental charge to his mother’s...
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Pete Hautman. Candlewick, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9071-7
An isolated boy witnesses a strange, terrible event in the wood near his house in this haunting novel by Hautman (Eden West). No other children live in Stuey’s neighborhood, so he has relied on his grandfather for companionship. After Gramps...
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Pete Hautman. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5344-0590-5
Stiggy, 17, has a lot of questions about why his girlfriend, Gaia, dumped him, and why his father committed suicide, and he’s not finding any answers in his Minnesota suburb. Wanting to think about “other things—or better yet, not think at all,” he...
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Pete Hautman. Candlewick, $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1858-9
This folktale-based mystery from Hautman (Road Tripped) centers Annike “Annie” Klimas, raised by her single father, who, along with the housekeeper who homeschools her, hails from the Queendom of Litvania—a tiny Baltic country that others insist...
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Pete Hautman. Candlewick, $18.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3488-6
A wily border collie shakes up a boy’s quiet life in this finely tuned, heartfelt novel by Hautman (The Rat Queen). Eighth grader Evan and his distracted parents lead a monotonous existence following a daily routine that includes a strictly...
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Edited by Nick Healy. Capstone/Switch Press, $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-63079-012-7
More than 40 brief true stories from Pete Hautman, Alison McGhee, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka and others address a vast range of experiences and emotions that will be painfully familiar to teens or anyone who ever was one. Several stories, like Rachael...
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Pete Hautman. Candlewick, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5403-0
In this thrilling first volume of the Klaatu Diskos trilogy, 13-year-old Tucker Feye’s ordinary life in smalltown Minnesota changes dramatically when his father, a preacher, disappears through a mysterious disk near the roof of their house. He...
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Pete Hautman. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4814-3251-1
Thirteen-year-old Ginger Crump lives in the town of Flinkwater, Iowa, along with a concentration of “Very Smart, Very Geeky people”: Flinkwater is the headquarters of an Apple-esque tech company, ACPOD. Most of the town’s residents, including Ginger’
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