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Pick the Lock

Pick the Lock

Pick the Lock
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Pick the Lock Hardback - 2024

by King, A.S

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  • Title Pick the Lock
  • Author King, A.S
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dutton Books for Young Readers
  • Publication date 2024-09-24
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOS-U-12e-01420
  • ISBN 9780593353974 / 0593353978
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.55 x 5.78 x 1.3 in (21.72 x 14.68 x 3.30 cm)
  • Age range 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Reading level 670
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Young Adult Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Home schooling
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

From the award-winning author of Dig comes a weird and insightful novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family's secrets.

"A roller coaster of a book, Pick the Lock is one thrill after another."--NPR

"Updated and recast for a new generation, this is a much-needed, thought-provoking tale of survival and triumph."--BCCB, starred review

Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father, who confines Jane's mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she's at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she gains access to the files for a lifetime of security camera videos--her lifetime.

Pick the Lock is a punk opera, a primal scream, and a portrait of a family buried in lies.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/2024, Page 78
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2024, Page 0
  • Horn Book Magazine, 11/01/2024, Page 89
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2024, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2024, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/03/2024, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 11/08/2024, Page 1
  • Shelf Awareness, 12/12/2024, Page 0

About the author

A.S. King is the award-winning author of many acclaimed books for young readers. Her novel Dig won the 2020 Michael L. Printz Award, and Ask The Passengers won the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The New York Times called her "one of the best YA writers working today." In 2022, she was awarded the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for her significant contribution to YA literature. King lives with her family in Pennsylvania, where she returned after living on a farm and teaching adult literacy in Ireland for more than a decade.

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