
The Dust of 100 Dogs
A. S. King(Author)
Speak (Publisher)
Published on 3. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
338 pages
978-0-425-29057-6 (ISBN)
Description
From the award-winning author of As the Passengers comes a witty, snarky tale of love and family, revenge and reincarnation, and pirates.
“Exciting, fascinating, spellbinding. I’d follow Saffron into the briny deep.”—Heather Brewer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod
“One of the best YA writers working today.”—The New York Times
In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage buccaneer Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches. But before she could make that dream a reality, she was slain and cursed with “the dust of one hundred dogs,” dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning to a human body—with her memories intact.
Now—having fulfilled her curse at last—she’s a contemporary American teenager. And all she needs to escape her no-good family and finally establish that luxurious life of her own is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica . . .
“Exciting, fascinating, spellbinding. I’d follow Saffron into the briny deep.”—Heather Brewer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod
“One of the best YA writers working today.”—The New York Times
In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage buccaneer Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches. But before she could make that dream a reality, she was slain and cursed with “the dust of one hundred dogs,” dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning to a human body—with her memories intact.
Now—having fulfilled her curse at last—she’s a contemporary American teenager. And all she needs to escape her no-good family and finally establish that luxurious life of her own is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica . . .
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Target group
US School Grade: Ninth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 14 years
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-425-29057-6 (9780425290576)
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Person
A.S. King is the award-winning author of many acclaimed books for young readers. Her novel Dig won the 2020 Michael L. Printz Award, and Ask The Passengers won the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The New York Times called her “one of the best YA writers working today.” King lives with her family in Pennsylvania, where she returned after living on a farm and teaching adult literacy in Ireland for more than a decade.