Title: Pick the Lock
Author: A. S. King
Narrators: Max Meyers
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Genre: Mystery, Social & Emotional Growth
Release Date: 11/01/24
Audience: 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Grade Level: Young Adult
Language: English
Binding Type: Hardcover
Page Count: 400
Awards: Booklist Starred Review,YALSA Top Audiobooks for Young Adults
Description: 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 Janeís mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever sheís 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 videosóher lifetime. A.S. King's latest surrealist masterpiece follows Janeís bizarre and brilliant journey to reconnect with her mother by breaking out of her shell and composing a punk opera.