Punkzilla

Punkzilla PDF

Author: Adam Rapp

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2010-03-16

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 076365258X

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An award-winning writer and playwright hits the open road for a searing novel-in-letters about a street kid on a highstakes trek across America. For a runaway boy who goes by the name "Punkzilla," kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland, Oregon, is a prelude to a mission: reconnecting with his older brother, a gay man dying of cancer in Memphis. Against a backdrop of seedy motels, dicey bus stations, and hitched rides, the desperate fourteen-year-old meets a colorful, sometimes dangerous cast of characters. And in letters to his sibling, he catalogs them all -- from an abusive stranger and a ghostly girl to a kind transsexual and an old woman with an oozing eye. The language is raw and revealing, crackling with visceral details and dark humor, yet with each interstate exit Punkzilla’s journey grows more urgent: will he make it to Tennessee in time? This daring novel offers a narrative worthy of Kerouac and a keen insight into the power of chance encounters.

Fum

Fum PDF

Author: Adam Rapp

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0763679534

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What is it like to be a giant? Meet Corinthia Bledsoe, a seven-foot tall high-school junior who can predict the future. Over seven feet tall and with a newfound ability to sense future events, Corinthia Bledsoe is far more than just another Midwestern high-school junior; she’s a force of nature. When she predicts with terrifying accuracy the outcome of a tornado that will hit her high school, leaving a cow standing midcourt in the Lugo Memorial field house, Corinthia finds herself at the epicenter of another kind of storm entirely. And as things get stranger and stranger — both in her small town and her own home — lives start to intersect in ways even Corinthia can’t foresee.

Ball Peen Hammer

Ball Peen Hammer PDF

Author: Adam Rapp

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-09-29

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1596433000

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"The world is dying. Chaos bubbles out of the sewers of an anonymous, desolate city, ravaged by war and plague. There is little humanity to be found in the diseased, deranged mobs that roam the streets. Pulitzer-finalist Adam Rapp's first graphic novel is an unflinching meditation on art and human nature. Perceptive, disturbing, and ultimately heartbreaking, Ball peen hammer offers us an unforgettable tale of brief human connections, violently severed" -- cover flap.

The Children and the Wolves

The Children and the Wolves PDF

Author: Adam Rapp

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0763653373

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Abducted by teen genius Bounce and her drifter friends Wiggins and Orange, four-year-old Frog seems content to eat cereal and play a video game about wolves all day--a game that parallels the reality around her--until Wiggins is overcome by guilt and tension and brings Frog to safety.

33 Snowfish

33 Snowfish PDF

Author: Adam Rapp

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0763654248

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"Adam Rapp’s brilliant and haunting story will break your heart. But then his words will mend it. . . . Absolutely unforgettable." – Michael Cart On the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby in tow, Custis, Curl, and Boobie are three young people with deeply troubled pasts and bleak futures. As they struggle to find a new life for themselves, it becomes painfully clear that none of them will ever be able to leave the past behind. Yet for one, redemption is waiting in the unlikeliest of places. With the raw language of the street and lyrical, stream-of-consciousness prose, Adam Rapp hurtles the reader into a world of lost children, a world that is not for the faint of heart. Gripping, disturbing, and starkly illuminating, his hypnotic narration captures the voices of two damaged souls - a third speaks only through drawings - to tell a story of alienation, deprivation, and ultimately, the saving power of compassion.

Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

Under the Wolf, Under the Dog PDF

Author: Adam Rapp

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0763654256

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Alternately heartbreaking and starkly humorous, this teenager's brutal story of escape and desire for redemption is masterfully told by award-winning writer and film director Adam Rapp. I'm what they call a Gray Grouper. The Red Groupers are the junkies and the Blue Groupers are the suicide kids. Steve Nugent is in a facility called Burnstone Grove. It's a place for kids who are addicts, like Shannon Lynch, who can stick $1.87 in change up his nose, or for kids who have tried to commit suicide, like Silent Starla, whom Steve is getting a crush on. But Steve doesn't really fit in either group. He used to go to a gifted school. So why is he being held at Burnstone Grove? Keeping a journal, in which he recalls his confused and violent past, Steve is left to figure out who he is by examining who he was.

Feed

Feed PDF

Author: M.T. Anderson

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2012-07-17

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0763662623

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Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. This new edition contains new back matter and a refreshed cover. A National Book Award finalist.

Going Bovine

Going Bovine PDF

Author: Libba Bray

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0385733976

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Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

Hunting with Barracudas

Hunting with Barracudas PDF

Author: Chris Snyder

Publisher: Skyhorse

Published: 2009-05-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1510720324

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Hollywood’s famous child star agent Iris Burton launched the careers of the world’s current movie stars and celebrities including Drew Barrymore, Tori Spelling, River and Joaquin Phoenix, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Johnny Depp, and Kirstin Dunst. But what was Iris Burton like to work for? Here now, her former employee Chris Snyder writes the true story of Hollywood’s most feared insider for the first time. Expect revelations, gossip, and the true seamy underside of Hollywood throughout the decades.

Not Simple

Not Simple PDF

Author: Natsume Ono

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781448763634

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"A story within a story, a book within a book, a tale about the search for family, for an emotional home. Ian, a young man with a fractured family history, travels from Australia to England to America in the hope of realizing his dream and reuniting with his beloved sister. His story unfolds backwards through the framing narrative of Jim, a reporter driver to capture Ian's experiences in a novel: Not simple"--Cover.