Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

Ask the Passengers

a novel

A.S. King

‘Astrid Jones copes with her small town’s gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she’s sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they’ll know what to do with it. Maybe it’ll make them happy. Maybe they’ll need it. Her mother doesn’t want it, her father’s always stoned, her perfect sister’s too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. There’s no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she’s trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love–and asking the right questions–will affect the passengers’ lives, and her own, for the better’–

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Details

ISBN 9780316194686
Genre YA Fiction (Young Adult)
Publication Date Oct-12
Publisher Little, Brown
Format Hardcover
No. of Pages 293
Notes Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Children’s/Young Adult
LoC Classification PZ7.K5693 .Ask 2012
Language English
Rating Good
Subject Family problems – Fiction; Gossip – Fiction; High schools – Fiction; JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see Also Headings Under Social Issues); JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Dating & JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Lesbians – Fiction; Love – Fiction; Prejudices – Fiction; Racism; Schools – Fiction; Sex
BookID 689

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