Name: Pick the Lock
Author: King, A. S
ISBN: [978-0-593-35397-4,0-593-35397-8]

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Pick the Lock

Author: King, A. S

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Follett Number: 2602RF7
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Dutton Books, 2024
Format: 383 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-35397-4
ISBN-10: 0-593-35397-8
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:

Abused Wives Fiction

Family Problems Fiction

Family Violence Fiction

Mothers and Daughters Fiction

Punk Rock Musicians Fiction

Security Systems Fiction

When she suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videos--her lifetime--Jane, who lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion while her mother tours the country, discovers nothing is normal about her toxic family.

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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 masterpiece follows Jane's bizarre and brilliant journey to reconnect with her mother by breaking out of her shell and composing a punk opera.

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