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Pete Hautman
National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a friendship like no other-and the universal truth that dogs make life better, especially for underdogs.
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"Exemplary storytelling. . . . There are dark corners to explore and challenging lessons to be learned, but the overall effect is magical." - Booklist (starred review)
For Annie's tenth…
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This book examines the life and work of Pete Hautman, whose more than 15 books for young adults cover a wide ride of diverse subjects. Chapters will explicate his work…
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A National Book Award winner pens a fast-paced mystery featuring a professional poker player who ups the ante in a deadly game of winner-take-all.
Thirteen-year-old Ginger investigates a series of weird events taking place in her home town of Flinkwater, Iowa, beginning with people falling into comas while using their computers.
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This involving tale of destiny, passion, and death takes teenager Jack Lund from the mysterious town of Memory, Minnesota, to the steamy jungle of World War II Guadalcanal to the…
National Book Award-winning author Hautman introduced 17-year-old Denn Doyle in No Limit. Now, in this powerful follow-up, Hautman deals another hand of love, luck, and greed in the high-stakes world…
National Book Award winner Pete Hautman weaves several diverging time streams into one satisfying masterwork in this stunning and revelatory series finale.
Denn is being knocked over by a bus. Having picked himself up from the street and ‘feeling lucky’, Denn continues on his way.
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In this futuristic satire–a New York Times Notable Book of the Year–by a National Book Award winner, a teen is sent to work at a pizza factory in the Canadian…
In 2028 a deadly Flu virus ravages the Earth. Only one in two thousand survive the virus, and these Survivors are rarely left unaffected. By 2038, only thirty-eight million people…
The author of Ring Game and The Mortal Nuts hits the jackpot with the wildly comedic story of a woman who hits the powerball lottery and the bounty she puts…
Ex-cop Joe Crow thinks he hits rock bottom when he humbly accepts a job as a bodyguard for a plastic surgeon with unsavory proclivities. Crow soon discovers Dr. Bellweather has…
In this hilarious series opener, ex-cop Joe Crow finds himself sucked into the underbelly of Minneapolis, where card hustlers, con men, comic books, and cocaine combine in a crazy comic…
This sequel to The Obsidian Blade transports readers to the terrifying and thrilling world of Lah Lia, the enigmatic girl who changed Tucker Feye’s life. Here, Tucker and Lah Lia…
Explores a boy’s unraveling allegiance to an insular cult.
Seventeen-year-old Steven Stiggy Gabel tries to cope with his father’s suicide, his mother’s depression, and his girlfriend’s departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.
As a joke, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents his own religion: theworship of his town’s water tower. But what starts as a loose congregation ofJason’s friend Shin and some classmates soon…
When Nick Fashon’s clothing shop and apartment burn to the ground, Nick is left with nothing but his grandfather’s strange plastic contrivance called the HandyMate. With a cast of colorful…
To save a friend’s daughter from a bad marriage, Joe Crow confronts cultists, carnies, and cocaine wackos.
Ginger Crump solves the mystery of why people in her town are forgetting things they should definitely know –
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Seventeen-year-old Steven Stiggy Gabel tries to cope with his father’s suicide, his mother’s depression, and his girlfriend’s departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana…
In this chilling look inside the mind of a loner, the author of the National Book Award winner Godless crafts a compelling novel that will have readers guessing until its…
Lita is the writer. Adam is the entrepreneur. They are JUST FRIENDS. So Adam would never sell copies of a self-help book before he’d even written it. And Lita would…
Competitive eating vies with family expectations in this funny, heartfelt novel by National Book Award winner Hautman.
What happened in the woods that day? Hautman’s riveting middle-grade novel touches on secrets and mysteries–and the power of connections with family and friends.
From National Book Award winner Pete Hautman comes a mysterious modern-day fairy tale about developing a moral compass-and the slippery nature of conscience.
For Annie’s tenth birthday, her papa gives…
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Hoping to win a cash prize in a pizza-eating contest after racking up a tab on his mother’s credit card, David must juggle his competitive eating training with the responsibility…
Having won thousands of dollars playing high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Denn Doyle hits a losing streak after falling in love with a young casino card dealer named Cattie…
Originally published: Stone cold. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998.
Pete Hautman,Mary Logue
An eerie new mystery series set in the town of Bloodwater begins and features two offbeat detectives–Roni Delicata, a pushy reporter for the school newspaper; and Brian Bain, a quiet…
HAUTMAN PETE
Award-winning author Hautman returns with a darkly comic story about a good man going bad.
