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AS King Books in Order

Explore A. S. King's books in publication order, with summaries of her young adult novels and stories about family, identity, grief, and growing up.

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The Dust of 100 Dogs

by AS King

2009

After living a hundred lives as a dog, a murdered teenage pirate is reborn as a modern American girl with her memories intact. She longs to escape her troubled family and recover the treasure she left in Jamaica.

Vera has spent years hiding her feelings for her best friend Charlie and keeping his secrets. After his mysterious death, she must decide whether to reveal what she knows and clear the name of someone who betrayed her.

Bullied Lucky Linderman escapes into dreams where he encounters his grandfather, missing since the Vietnam War. As his real life grows harder, he must find a way to stand up for himself beyond those imaginary adventures.

Ask the Passengers

by AS King

2012

Astrid Jones sends her private thoughts to passengers in planes overhead because she cannot confide in the people around her. Her secret relationship with a girl brings pressure to define herself before she feels ready.

Monica Never Shuts Up

by AS King

2012

These twelve stories follow people caught in strange disruptions of ordinary life, from a dream house with unexpected occupants to a woman mailing pieces of herself to her former husband. Their surreal predicaments explore connection and loss.

Reality Boy

by AS King

2013

Gerald Faust cannot escape the humiliating childhood tantrums captured by a reality television crew. At seventeen, he struggles with anger, isolation, and family dysfunction while trying to build a life beyond the image strangers remember.

Glory gains the ability to see people's pasts and futures as she approaches graduation without plans of her own. Disturbing visions of lost rights and civil war push her to record what she sees and confront her family's grief.

I Crawl Through It

by AS King

2015

Four teenagers cope with trauma, grief, and relentless pressure through increasingly surreal escapes. Their strange transformations and impossible inventions offer refuge, but facing the reality around them may require a different kind of courage.

Sixteen-year-old Sarah loses her ability to draw and begins encountering younger and older versions of herself around Philadelphia. Their appearances force her to confront buried family secrets, her parents' relationship, and her brother's long absence.

Me and Marvin Gardens

by AS King

2017

As developers transform his family's farmland and his friend drifts away, Obe Devlin discovers an unusual creature by the creek. The animal eats plastic, and Obe must protect it while navigating the changes around him.

Dig

by AS King

2019

Five estranged teenagers are connected to a family whose wealthy elders guard their money and secrets. Their intersecting lives expose racism, poverty, and abuse as they begin uncovering the history that has kept them apart.

Liberty Johansen finds patterns in the stars while struggling to understand her family's separation. With her father gone, her mother changing, and her sister withdrawing, she searches for a way to make sense of her shifting world.

Switch

by AS King

2021

Time has stopped, and Truda Becker's school tries to solve the mystery while her father builds boxes around a forbidden switch. As she discovers an unexpected gift for javelin, Truda questions her family and the strange rules governing everyone's lives.

Pick the Lock

by AS King

2024

Jane lives with her brother and controlling father in a Victorian mansion while her mother tours to support them. Access to a lifetime of security recordings challenges everything Jane has accepted about her family’s peculiar arrangements.

Standalone AS King books

  1. Book cover for "The Dust of 100 Dogs"

    The Dust of 100 Dogs

    by AS King

    2009
  2. Book cover for "Please Ignore Vera Dietz"
  3. Book cover for "Everybody sees the ants"
  4. Book cover for "Ask the Passengers"

    Ask the Passengers

    by AS King

    2012
  5. Book cover for "Monica Never Shuts Up"

    Monica Never Shuts Up

    by AS King

    2012
  6. Book cover for "Reality Boy"

    Reality Boy

    by AS King

    2013
  7. Book cover for "Glory O'Brien's History of the Future"
  8. Book cover for "I Crawl Through It"

    I Crawl Through It

    by AS King

    2015
  9. Book cover for "Still Life with Tornado"
  10. Book cover for "Me and Marvin Gardens"

    Me and Marvin Gardens

    by AS King

    2017
  11. Book cover for "Dig"

    Dig

    by AS King

    2019
  12. Book cover for "The Year We Fell From Space"
  13. Book cover for "Switch"

    Switch

    by AS King

    2021
  14. Book cover for "Pick the Lock"

    Pick the Lock

    by AS King

    2024

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