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New York, NY : Dutton Books for Young Readers, [2019].
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Published
New York, NY : Dutton Books for Young Readers, [2019].
Format
Book
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392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English

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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. With her inimitable surrealism and insight into teenage experience, A.S. King explores how a corrosive culture of polite, affluent white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can save themselves. --from Amazon.
Awards
Printz Award Winner 2020

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

King, A. S. 1. (2019). Dig. . Dutton Books for Young Readers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

King, A. S. 1970-. 2019. Dig.. Dutton Books for Young Readers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

King, A. S. 1970-. Dig. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

King, A. S. 1970-. Dig. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2019.

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