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The serpent king : a novel / Jeff Zentner.

Summary:

Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life—at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father’s extreme faith and very public fall from grace. The only antidote to all this venom is his friendship with fellow outcasts Travis and Lydia. But as they are starting their senior year, Dill feels the coils of his future tightening around him. The end of high school will lead to new beginnings for Lydia, whose edgy fashion blog is her ticket out of their rural Tennessee town. And Travis is happy wherever he is thanks to his obsession with the epic book series Bloodfall and the fangirl who may be turning his harsh reality into real-life fantasy. Dill’s only escapes are his music and his secret feelings for Lydia—neither of which he is brave enough to share. Graduation feels more like an ending to Dill than a beginning. But even before then, he must cope with another ending—one that will rock his life to the core.

Record details

ISBN: 9780553524055
ISBN: 0553524054
ISBN: 9780605974197
ISBN: 0605974195
Physical Description: 372 pages, 19 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First Ember edition.
Publisher: New York : Ember, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, New York, in 2016"--Title page verso.

Includes an excerpt from Goodbye days by Jeff Zentner.