Dig Contributor(s): King, A. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1101994916 ISBN-13: 9781101994917 Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
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BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Family - Multigenerational - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Class Differences | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dewey: FIC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
LCCN: 2018017878 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Age Level: 14-UP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grade Level: 9-UP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lexile Measure: 600 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" L (1.20 lbs) 400 pages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features: Ikids, Price on Product | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Review Citations: Booklist 12/15/2018 pg. 95 Publishers Weekly 12/24/2018 Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2019 Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2019 - Recommended - Hard To Beat Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2019 - Book Of Special Distinction Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2019 pg. 85 Shelf Awareness 03/29/2019 BookPage 04/01/2019 School Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 105 Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Description: Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★"King's narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future."--Horn Book, starred review "I've never understood white people who can't admit they're white. I mean, white isn't just a color. And maybe that's the problem for them. White is a passport. It's a ticket." Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family's tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account--wealth they've refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. "Because we want them to thrive," Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, "thriving" feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings' white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out. |
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