Pick the Lock

A.S. King

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Dutton Books for Young Readers
14 January 2025

Family & home stories (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: family issues (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: self-awareness & self-esteem (Children's&YA); Young Adult

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family.

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family.

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 suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videos-her lifetime.

A.S. King's latest surrealist masterpiecefollows Jane's bizarre and brilliant journey to reconnect with her mother by breaking out of her shell and composing a punk opera.

By: A.S. King
Imprint: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 219mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN: 9780593353974
ISBN 10: 0593353978
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 14 January 2025
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. www.as-king.com

Reviews for Pick the Lock

★ ""Printz Award–winning King has written another remarkable, character-driven book that dazzles with its originality. With that and its employment of magic realism, it is sui generis, and at 400-plus pages, it is one of King’s most ambitious, and most successful, books. And that, God knows, is no lie.""—Booklist, starred review ""Helmed by Jane’s penetrating commentary, this unconventional narrative melds punk anthems and bewildering interludes from a shape-shifting rat with King’s quirky blend of present-day issues and mind-bending twists to unlock complex, thought-provoking insight.""—Publishers Weekly