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Title: |
Surrender Your Sons |
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| By (author): |
Adam Sass |
| ISBN10-13: |
1635830613 : 9781635830613 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
203x133mm |
| Pages: |
424 |
| Weight: |
.508 Kg. |
| Published: |
Flux - September 2020 |
| List Price: |
18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Thrillers (Children's / Teenage) |
| Surrender Your Sons is an LGBTQ+ YA mystery / thriller that expertly blends together humor, horror, and heart, in a wholly unique read like no other. A blend of Lost and Lord of the Flies â ¦ just with gay teenagers taking the horrors of the world head on. A 2020 Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth selection A 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books selection A 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Bronze Winner, Young Adult Fiction Connor Majorâ s summer break is turning into a nightmare. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he â changes.â But Connorâ s troubles are only beginning. At Nightlight, everyone has something to hideâ from the campers to the â convertedâ staff and cagey camp directorâ and it quickly becomes clear that no one is safe. Connor plans to escape and bring the other kidnapped teens with him. But first, heâ s exposing the campâ s horrible truths for what they areâ and taking this place down. |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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A 2020 Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth selection
2020
United States
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A 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books selection
2020
United States
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A 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Bronze Winner, Young Adult Fiction
2020
United States
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A 2021 Moonbeam Awards Gold Medalist (Young Adult Fiction - Horror/Mystery)
2021
United States
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A 2022 ALA Rainbow List Selection
2022
United States
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| Reviews: |
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"Hard to read story, hard-to-stop-reading writing."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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"An impressive, dynamic, and riveting debut!"--Booklist, starred review
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"Messages about struggles with internalized homophobia and the world's treatment of those who are different ring true."--Publisher's Weekly
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"A must-have for high school collections that are looking to provide representation for all their students, especially those experiencing pain in their journey of coming out."--School Library Journal
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