Out of Salem by Hal Scrieve
Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's LiteratureA Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of 2019
The best Teen Zombie Werewolf Witchy Faerie fantasy murder mystery you've ever read--by debut author, Hal Schrieve.
Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with their mother's friend, Mrs. Dunnigan, and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmates will discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. When a local psychiatrist is murdered by what seems to be werewolves, the town of Salem, Oregon, becomes even more hostile to "monsters," and Z and Aysel are driven together in an attempt to survive a place where most people wish that neither of them existed.
Rarely has a first-time author created characters of such immediacy and power as Z, Aysel, Tommy (suspected fey) and Elaine (also a werewolf), or a world that parallels our own so clearly and disturbingly.
Hal Schrieve is a werewolf expert who grew up in Olympia, Washington. Xie has worked as a tutor, a grocer, and a babysitter in addition to being an after-school group leader and a summer camp counselor. Hal's poetry has appeared in Vetch magazine, and he's included in the 2018 trans comics anthology We're Still Here from Stacked Deck Publications. Hal has a Master's in Library Science from Queen's College and works at the New York Public Library as a Children's Librarian. His debut novel, Out of Salem, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Fiction and garnered starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly. Hal is a resident of Brooklyn.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781609809010 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609809017 |
| Title | Out of Salem |
| Author | Hal Scrieve |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2019-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for National Book Awards (Young People's Lit.) 2019 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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