The Serpent King - Want It All

The Serpent King

A William C. Morris Award Finalist
AÂ New York TimesÂ Notable Book
An Amazon Best Book of the Year
AÂ Kirkus ReviewsÂ Best Book of the Year
AÂ Publishers WeeklyÂ Best Book of the Year
AÂ Shelf AwarenessÂ Best Teen Book of the Year

Named to BuzzFeed's "Best YA Books of 2016" list!

Named to Mashable's "Best YA Book of the Year" list!

"Move over, John Green; Zentner is coming for you."Â â€”The New York Public Library

â€œWill fill the infinite space that was left in your chest after you finishedÂ The Perks of Being a Wallflower.â€ â€”BookRiot.comÂ
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Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole lifeâ€”at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his fatherâ€™s extreme faith and very public fall from grace.Â
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The only antidote to all this venom is his friendship with fellow outcasts Travis and Lydia. But as they are starting their senior year, Dill feels the coils of his future tightening around him. Dillâ€™s only escapes are his music and his secret feelings for Lydiaâ€”neither of which he is brave enough to share. Graduation feels more like an ending to Dill than a beginning. But even before then, he must cope with another endingâ€”one that will rock his life to the core.
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In this William C. Morris Award Finalist, debut novelist Jeff Zentner provides an unblinking and at times comic view of the hard realities of growing up in the Bible belt, and an intimate look at the struggles to find oneâ€™s true self in the wreckage of the past.

â€œA story about friendship, family and forgiveness, itâ€™s as funny and witty as it is utterly heartbreaking.â€ â€”PasteMagazine.com

â€œA brutally honest portrayal of teen life . . . [and] a love letter to the South from a man who really understands it.â€Â â€”Mashable.com

â€œI adored all three of these characters and the way they talked to and loved one another.â€â€”New York Times
Country USA
Manufacturer Ember
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-06-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Ember
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-06-06
Format	Kindle eBook