Ebook {Epub PDF} Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

 · A.S. King is the author of the highly acclaimed books Glory O'Brien's History of the Future;Reality Boy; Ask the Passengers, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner; Everybody Sees the Ants; and the Edgar Award nominated, Michael L. Printz Brand: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.  · A.S. King is the author of the highly-acclaimed I CRAWL THROUGH IT, Walden Award winner GLORY O'BRIEN'S HISTORY OF THE FUTURE, REALITY BOY, LA Times Book Prize winner ASK THE PASSENGERS, ALA Top Ten Book for Young Adults EVERYBODY SEES THE ANTS, and Michael L. Printz Honor Book PLEASE IGNORE VERA DIETZ and THE DUST OF /5.  · In Ask the Passengers (Little, Brown and Company), author A.S. King takes the skeletal components of a young adult lesbian coming-out novel and applies metaphysical, philosophical, psychological, sociological and existential layers that infuse the flesh with outstanding writing. What would have been an important contribution to young adult fiction, has become a literary work noted for its Reviews: 1.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Ask the Passengers by A. S. King (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Ask the Passengers by A.S. King #Young_Adult@best_audiobooks #A_S_King@best_audiobooks Astrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's lack of interest tell her they're the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly overhead. Ask The Passengers by AS King. 14/6/ 1 Comment Astrid Jones is carrying a lot of secrets and doesn't feel able to confide in anyone. Instead, she lies on the picnic bench in her garden and talks to the passengers of the aircraft flying overhead. She asks them about her abrasive family and the secrets her two best friends are asking her to.

Ask the Passengers won the annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize for young-adult literature in [14] [15] In , she was named the "Outstanding Pennsylvania Author" for that year by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Associations; all of her novels have taken place in the state. Astrid, the main character in A. S. King's new novel, Ask the Passengers, explores questions about herself, her friends, her family, and her life. The seventeen-year-old is smack in the middle of figuring out her blossoming sexuality, and so this is, truly, her coming-out story. Summary and reviews of Ask the Passengers by A. King, plus links to a book excerpt from Ask the Passengers and author biography of A. S. King.