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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 masterpiecefollows 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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      Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
      Publication Date: 9/24/2024 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780593353974, 978-0593353974
      ISBN10: 0593353978
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 masterpiecefollows 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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