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By A.S. King
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Penguin Random House Imprint Dutton ISBN

9781101994917

Awards and Honors SLJ Best Books - 2019
Horn Book Fanfare - 2019
CPL Best Books - 2019
2020 Michael L. Printz Award Winner
Los Angeles Times Young Adult Finalist

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Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Drug Use/Abuse,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Marijuana Use,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Underage Use,Language: Homophobic Slur,Language: Strong Language,Sexual Content: Sexual Harassment,Sexual Content: Strong Sexual Content/Themes,Violence: Domestic/Physical Abuse,Violence: Mild Violence,Violence: Sexual Assault/Rape,Violence: Suicide

The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, and First-Class Malcolm. These are the five teenagers lost in the Hemmings family’s maze of tangled secrets. Only a generation removed from being Pennsylvania potato farmers, Gottfried and Marla Hemmings managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now sit atop a seven-figure bank account—wealth they’ve declined to pass on to their adult children or their teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. What does thriving look like? Like carrying a snow shovel everywhere. Like selling pot at the Arby’s drive-thru window. Like a first class ticket to Jamaica between cancer treatments. Like a flea-circus in a double-wide. Like the GPS coordinates to a mound of dirt in a New Jersey forest. As the rot just beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ precious suburban respectability begins to spread, the far-flung grandchildren gradually find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name.
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