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Jeff Zentner

The Serpent King

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Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal
Winner of the American Library Association Morris Award for best debut YA
Winner of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award for Young Adult Fiction
A Buzzfeed Best of 2016 book
Goodreads Choice Awards finalist
A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2016
Publishers Weekly Best of 2016

Dill is a misfit in his small, religious Tennessee town. His dad is in prison for a shocking crime, and his mom is struggling to make ends meet. The only things getting Dill through senior year are his guitar and his fellow outcasts, Travis and Lydia.
Travis is an oddball who finds comfort from his violent home life in an epic fantasy book series. And Lydia is like no one else: fast-talking, creative and fiercely protective. Dill fears his heart will break when she escapes to a better life elsewhere. What Dill needs now is some bravery to tell Lydia how he feels, to go somewhere with his music — and to face the hardest test of all when tragedy strikes.
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326 printed pages
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016

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    🔮Hidden Depths
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    I can't find the words to describe this book. It's so so beautiful and hearthbreaking. One of the best books I have ever read.

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  • Patricia Audrine Bshared an impression8 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    🚀Unputdownable
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    • Patricia Audrine Bhas quoted8 years ago
      “Remember this, Dillard Early,” Lydia whispered, her voice cracking. “You are you and you are magnificent and brilliant and talented. You’re not your grandfather. You’re not your father. Their serpents are not your serpents. Their poison is not your poison. Their darkness is not your darkness. Not even their name is your name.”
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      • Patricia Audrine Bhas quoted8 years ago
        “I’m tired of watching children perish. I’m tired of watching the world grind up gentle people. I’m tired of outliving those I shouldn’t be outliving. I’ve made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery. I needed to say that out loud to somebody other than my cats. Please take care of yourselves, my young friends.”
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        • Patricia Audrine Bhas quoted8 years ago
          Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
          We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
          If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
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