Watt Key, Author . FSG $17 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-30184-2
First-time author Key's absorbing survival tale features a 10-year-old hermit, who feels more at home among forest creatures than people. Raised in a primitive shelter deep in the Alabama woods, Moon Blake knows only two people: Pap, a Vietnam...
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Watt Key, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-30863-6
This gritty sequel to Key's Alabama Moon tells what happens to Moon's friend Hal after their escape from the Pinson Boys' Home. The book begins with 14-year-old Hal being sent to the Hellenweiler Boys' Home in Tuscaloosa, a "high-security jailhouse [
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Watt Key. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-35095-6
Like Moon, the protagonist of Key’s Alabama Moon, 12-year-old country boy Foster is a rough-edged hero with a barrelful of troubles and a large, compassionate heart. Foster is still grieving the death of his father when his mother begins dating...
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Watt Key. Univ. of Alabama, $29.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8173-8890-4
The pleasures and dangers of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta are seen through the eyes of a Mobile, Ala., native in this sentimental account that spans a decade, from the author's first trip there in 1996, through Hurricane Katrina, and up to 2006,...
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Watt Key. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-37430-3
Set on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, this fast-paced adventure traces 13-year-old Cort’s daring attempt to keep two neighbor girls alive during a hurricane. The action begins when Cort’s father, a river guide, puts him in charge of taking care of Liza and...
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Watt Key. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-30654-0
Key (Hideout) offers plenty of nail-biting suspense in this survival tale about a deep-sea dive off the Alabama coast that goes horribly wrong. When scuba dive guide Gibson Sims falls ill on his boat, his 12-year-old daughter, Julie, leads two...
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