Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear - Hardcover
by Robin Wasley
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781665914604ISBN-10:1665914602UPC:9781665914604Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Asian American & Pacific Islander, Fantasy, FamilyBook Topic:Romance, AdoptionAward:2025 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist - Young Adult Literature AwardSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.05Product ID:SCEDKPRBRB
A Morris Debut YA Award Finalist A painfully average teen's life is upended by a magical apocalypse in this "thrilling, moving, and fantastical" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel perfect for fans of The Raven Boys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here. High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate. Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown, a tourist trap built over one of the fault lines that seal magic away from the world. Meanwhile, all Sid has to deal with is hair-ruining humidity, painful awkwardness, being one of four Asians in town, and her friends dumping her when they start dating each other--just days after one of the most humiliating romantic rejections faced by anyone, ever, in all of history. Then someone kills one of the Guardians who protect the seal. The earth rips open and unleashes the magic trapped inside. Monsters crawl from the ground, no one can enter or leave, and the man behind it all is roaming the streets with a gang of violent vigilantes. Suddenly, Sid's life becomes a lot less ordinary. When she finds out her missing brother is involved, she joins the remaining Guardians, desperate to find him and close the fault line for good. Fighting through hordes of living corpses and uncontrollable growths of forest, Sid and a ragtag crew of would-be heroes are the only thing standing between their town and the end of the world as they know it. Between magic, murderers, and burgeoning crushes, Sid must survive being a perfectly normal girl caught in a perfectly abnormal apocalypse. Only--how can someone so ordinary make it in such an extraordinary world?
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781665914604ISBN-10:1665914602UPC:9781665914604Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Asian American & Pacific Islander, Fantasy, FamilyBook Topic:Romance, AdoptionAward:2025 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist - Young Adult Literature AwardSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.05Product ID:SCEDKPRBRB
Robin Wasley is a young adult fantasy writer with a soft spot for orphans, found families, and funny girls with no special skills who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances. She grew up in a family of adoptees, never truly seeing herself reflected in the books she devoured. As an adult, when she saw an Asian American girl on the cover of a YA book for the first time, she cried. Robin lives in Boston and works in scientific publishing, but she writes so readers can laugh, cry, and scream, "Why are you like this?". Her favorite things are genre mashes, bubble baths, Cheetos, and pie. When not writing, she enjoys baking and binge-watching entire seasons of TV in a single day. Her one dream in life is to become best friends with BTS. Her novel Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear was selected as a finalist for the Morris Debut YA Award.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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🏆 2025 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist - Young Adult Literature Award
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