Confessions of a Candy Snatcher
(A Halloween-Themed Middle Grade Novel Exploring Friendship, Identity, and Accountability for Kids Ages 10-14)
Published on 15. August 2023
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-5362-1368-3 (ISBN)
Description
"For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have competed to see how many bags of candy they can grab from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. No one's supposed to get hurt, just lose their treats. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets fights back against his snatching attempt. He's even more surprised when he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone who knows what happened that night. Jonas already has enough on his plate, between his parents' ill-defined separation and his own guilt-guilt his friend Concepcion challenges him to confront in a zine she's creating around the prompt "What's the worst thing you ever did?" It's a complicated question, one that touches on issues of identity, maturity, physical boundaries, and safety."--Publisher marketing.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Fifth Grade to Ninth Grade, Interest Age: From 10 to 14 years
Product notice
Picture book
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5362-1368-3 (9781536213683)
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Persons
Phoebe Sinclair believes in the power of voice. Through writing, organizing, and facilitating, she strives to create space and opportunities for people to listen deeply, speak from the heart, and feel heard. Outside of paid work, she is a wanderer, city cyclist, zinester, and friend who confesses a love for candy corn. Confessions of a Candy Snatcher is her first novel. Jersey-raised, Phoebe Sinclair lives with her partner, a graphic designer and musician, in Jamaica Plain in Boston.
Theodore Taylor III is a front-end web developer by day who maintains a career as a children’s book illustrator in his free time. He is the illustrator of When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop by Laban Carrick Hill, for which he won the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award. His work is inspired by his love of music, comics, animation, video games, street art, and more. He is also a self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur. Theodore Taylor III lives with his wife and son in Richmond, Virginia.
Theodore Taylor III is a front-end web developer by day who maintains a career as a children’s book illustrator in his free time. He is the illustrator of When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop by Laban Carrick Hill, for which he won the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award. His work is inspired by his love of music, comics, animation, video games, street art, and more. He is also a self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur. Theodore Taylor III lives with his wife and son in Richmond, Virginia.