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May 11, 2021 | ISBN 9780525555513 | Young Adult Pre-Order
May 11, 2021 | ISBN 9780525555520 | Young Adult Pre-Order
May 11, 2021 | 600 Minutes | Young Adult Pre-Order
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May 11, 2021 | ISBN 9780525555513 | Young Adult
May 11, 2021 | ISBN 9780525555520 | Young Adult
May 11, 2021 | ISBN 9780593397848 | Young Adult
600 Minutes
A surreal and timely novel about isolation and human connection from Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King.Time has stopped. It’s been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her “Solution Time” class won’t solve the world’s problems, but she does have a few ideas what might. Truda lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches, a switch her father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively larger boxes. But Truda’s got a crow bar, and one way or another, she’s going to see what happens when she flips the switch.
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… More about A.S. King
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