Pete Hautman's Books

Rash

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Consumption of alcohol: Illegal. Football and other "violent" sports: Illegal. Ownership of guns, chain saws, and/or large dogs: Illegal. Body piercings, tattoos: Illegal. It's late in the twenty-first century, and the United Safer States of America (USSA) has become a nation obsessed with safety. For Bo Marsten, a teenager who grew up in the USSA, it's all good. He knows the harsh laws were created to protect the people. But when Bo's temper flares out of control and he's sentenced to three years of manual labor, he's not so down with the law anymore. Bo's forced to live and work in a factory in the Canadian tundra. The warden running the place is totally out of his mind, and cares little for his inmates' safety. Bo will have to decide what's worse: a society that locks people up for road rage, or a prison where the wrong move could make you polar bear food.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

275

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439115265

ISBN 13

9781439115268

Ring Game

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ring Game

By: Pete Hautman

DIVTo save a friend’s daughter from a bad marriage, Joe Crow confronts cultists, carnies, and cocaine wackos/divDIV Poker-playing ex-cop Joe Crow has been dealt some rotten hands in his life, but he’s survived them all. When Axel Speeter starts begging for help, Crow suspects his luck is about to run out. A taco-dealing former poker pro, Speeter’s worried about his girlfriend’s daughter Carmen. She’s the sexiest trouble magnet the state of Omaha has ever seen, and she’s about to drag Crow down with her./divDIV /divDIVCarmen has just gotten engaged to Hyatt Hilton, a onetime drug pusher who’s currently scratching out a living selling bootlegged Evian. Speeter wants Crow to make sure he’s staying on the straight-and-narrow. And it looks like Hilton’s involved in something much more dangerous than designer water. He’s about to cross the Amaranthine Church of the One—a New Age cult convinced that it’s found the secret to immortality, and doesn’t mind killing to prove it. /div

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

527

Publisher

Open Road Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1480406236

ISBN 13

9781480406230

All-in

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

All-in

By: Pete Hautman

You know how they say you can't climb out of a hole till you hit bottom?" "Yeah?" "I'm trying to find the bottom." At seventeen, Denn Doyle isn't old enough to gamble legally, but thanks to his talent for reading tells, he's made a fortune -- and along the way, he's upset some of the most notorious Texas holdem players in Las Vegas, including Artie Kingston, who had already lost his nightclub to Denn. But now Denn's luck has run out and he's just about broke. His only chance is a million-dollar, winner-take-all tournament at Artie's new casino, but Denn can't play unless he comes up with the $10,000 entry fee. Denn's future all comes down to one hand of poker. National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman introduced Denn Doyle in No Limit, of which School Library Journal said, "Fast paced and powerfully delivered...as taut and suspenseful as a high-stakes game." Here he deals another hand of love, luck, and greed in the high-stakes world of poker.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

165

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442433361

ISBN 13

9781442433366

Full House

By: Pete Hautman,Francine P. Pascal,K. L. Going,Gary Phillips,Will Weaver

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Full House

By: Pete Hautman,Francine P. Pascal,K. L. Going,Gary Phillips,Will Weaver

Is there any greater thrill than staring down your opponent across the poker table, waiting for the card that will make or break your hand? Acclaimed YA novelist Pete Hautman would know—he’s been a poker fanatic for thirty years. And with poker now an international TV phenomenon, the time seems right for an anthology about this most exciting game. From a contest that pits a hapless teen against his girlfriend’s redneck family, to a midnight game with the Devil, to an Internet poker scheme gone horribly wrong, the stories here brilliantly reveal how poker can both irrevocably affect and eerily imitate teenage life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1440621179

ISBN 13

9781440621178

Otherwood

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Otherwood

By: Pete Hautman

What happened in the woods that day? Pete Hautman’s riveting middle-grade novel touches on secrets and mysteries — and the power of connections with family and friends. “Hatred combined with lies and secrets can break the world.” Grandpa Zach used to say that before he died, but Stuey never really knew what he meant. It was kind of like how he used to talk about quantum physics or how he used to say ghosts haunted their overgrown golf course. But then one day, after Stuey and his best friend, Elly Rose, spend countless afternoons in the deadfall in the middle of the woods, something totally unbelievable happens. As Stuey and Elly Rose struggle to come to grips with their lives after that reality-splitting moment, all the things Grandpa Zach used to say start to make a lot more sense. This is a book about memory and loss and the destructive nature of secrets, but also about the way friendship, truth, and perseverance have the ability to knit a torn-apart world back together.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

219

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1536203742

ISBN 13

9781536203745

Rag Man

A Novel

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rag Man

A Novel

By: Pete Hautman

Suppose you quit your job, took out a second mortgage, and borrowed every penny of your in-laws' nest egg to start up a surefire new business. What if your partner ran off with all your money? What if you caught up with him? These are the questions Pete Hautman's hero faces in Rag Man, a wryly funny, Faustian tale of a good man going bad. Mack MacWray's new clothing manufacturing company was wildly successful -- until the day his charming, street-savvy partner, Lars Larson, disappeared with all the assets, leaving Mack stuck with nothing but debts and shattered dreams. Devastated, Mack thinks he has nothing left to live for until, at the edge of a cliff on the idyllic Mexican resort of Isla Mujeres, he comes face-to-face with his former partner. Mack discovers something about himself that fateful afternoon -- that maybe he's not such a nice guy after all. After push comes to shove, Mack must live with what he has become. Mack returns to the U.S. with his moral compass demagnetized and discovers a world of opportunity. Without the ball and chain of guilt and accountability, making money is all but guaranteed. He transforms himself from bankrupt loser to hard-nosed success story -- but at what cost? His wife wants the old Mack back; her best friend wants Mack in bed; Lars's widow wants money (or revenge); and Detective Jerry Pleasant wants answers -- or maybe more. As the pace quickens and tensions rise, these characters begin to surprise even themselves. Pete Hautman treads the line between psychological darkness and laugh-out-loud funny as he asks tough questions about the nature of good and evil -- and offers some unexpected answers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0743217691

ISBN 13

9780743217699

Slider

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Slider

By: Pete Hautman

Competitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle-grade readers by National Book Award winner Pete Hautman. David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact, he’ll have to do better: he’s going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl, the world’s greatest pizza-eating contest, and he has to win it, because he borrowed his mom’s credit card and accidentally put $2,000 on it. So he really needs that prize money. Like, yesterday. As if training to be a competitive eater weren’t enough, he’s also got to keep an eye on his little brother, Mal (who, if the family believed in labels, would be labeled autistic, but they don’t, so they just label him Mal). And don’t even get started on the new weirdness going on between his two best friends, Cyn and HeyMan. Master talent Pete Hautman has whipped up a rich narrative shot through with equal parts humor and tenderness, and the result is a middle-grade novel too delicious to put down.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

289

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0763697656

ISBN 13

9780763697655

The Prop

A Novel

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Prop

A Novel

By: Pete Hautman

National Book Award winner Pete Hautman delivers a fast-paced mystery set in the torrid, unforgiving Southwestern desert, where the stakes are sky high and all bets are off. Peeky Kane is a prop player at an Arizona casino owned by the Santa Cruz tribe. Her job is to play poker. She makes a handsome living off the suckers who populate the card room. Life is sweet. But something's not right at Casino Santa Cruz. When Peeky inadvertently finds herself in a fixed game and comes away a couple thousand dollars richer, she finds herself drawn unwittingly toward the dark side of professional poker. Peeky has always thought of herself as a straight shooter, but now things aren't so clear. And they're about to get a lot murkier. When a band of clown-masked robbers makes off with millions of the casino's dollars and leaves behind four corpses, Peeky recognizes one of the robbers as a casino employee, and fears that one of her closest loved ones might also be involved. That same day, Peeky's son-in-law turns up to tell her that Jaymie, her beloved daughter, has been stealing money from Peeky for years to feed a crack habit. Numb from these revelations, Peeky is compelled to action by an unlikely source when the most powerful member of the Santa Cruz tribe calls upon her to help him save his troubled casino. Peeky must draw on her years of reading poker faces and playing the odds to save the casino, her daughter, and herself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

390

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0743288904

ISBN 13

9780743288903

What Boys Really Want

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

What Boys Really Want

By: Pete Hautman

National Book Award winning author Pete Hautman lets us in on the secret.Lita is the writer. Adam is the entrepreneur. They are JUST FRIENDS.So Adam would never sell copies of a self-help book before he'd even written it. And Lita would never try to break up Adam's relationship with Blair, the skankiest girl at school. They'd never sabotage their friends Emily and Dennis. Lita would never date a guy related to a girl she can't stand. They'd never steal each other's blog posts. And Adam would never end up in a fist fight with Lita's boyfriend. Nope, never.Adam and Lita might never agree on what happened, but in this hilarious story from Pete Hautman, they manage to give the world a little more insight into what boys and girls are really looking for.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

306

Publisher

Scholastic Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

0545393191

ISBN 13

9780545393195

Sweetblood

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sweetblood

By: Pete Hautman

Sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is Undead -- at least according to her own theories about vampirism. Lucy believes that the first vampires -- with their pale skin, long teeth, and uncontrollable thirst -- were dying diabetics. And she should know. She's a diabetic herself. When Lucy becomes involved with Draco -- a self-proclaimed "real" vampire she meets in the Transylvania Internet chat room -- her world begins crashing down around her. Caught up in late-night parties and Goth culture, she begins to lose control of her grades, relationships, and health. Lucy realizes she needs to make some important choices, and fast. But it may already be too late.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

202

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439108749

ISBN 13

9781439108741

Mrs. Million

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mrs. Million

By: Pete Hautman

DIVA lottery jackpot winner decides to turn one of her millions into a bounty for the man who left her/divDIV Barbaraannette is decorating a cake when the Powerball numbers come in. They sound suspiciously familiar, but she finishes the cake before checking her ticket, knowing that if she wins her hands will be too shaky to handle the icing. This quiet Midwesterner has just won nine million dollars—and nine million kinds of trouble to go with it./divDIV /divDIVAccepting her money on national television, Barbaraannette promises a cool million to anyone who can bring her runaway husband home to her. When he hears of the reward placed for his return, Bobby decides to claim it himself—but first, he’s got to get past a pair of bounty hunters, a psychotic pretty-boy, and a lovelorn humanities professor who won’t take no for an answer. Getting her husband home safe will be tougher than winning the lottery. Whether Barbaraannette will want him when he gets there is another question altogether./div

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

345

Publisher

Open Road Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

148040621X

ISBN 13

9781480406216

Road Tripped

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Road Tripped

By: Pete Hautman

“Superb road trip novel. By turns introspective and humorous.” —Booklist (starred review) In this captivating story about loss, love, and changing your ways, National Book Award–winning author Pete Hautman imbues the classic road trip novel with clever wit and heartfelt musings about life and death. Steven Gerald Gabel—a.k.a. Stiggy—needs to get out of Minnesota. His father recently took his own life, his mother is a shell of the person she used to be, and his sort-of-girlfriend ghosted him and skipped town. What does he have left to stick around for? Armed with his mom’s credit card and a tourist map of Great River Road, Stiggy sets off in his dad’s car. The only problem is, life on his own isn’t exactly what he expected and, soon enough, he finds himself at a crossroads: keep running from his demons, or let them hitch a ride back home with him.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

336

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1534405917

ISBN 13

9781534405912

Invisible

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Invisible

By: Pete Hautman

You could say that my railroad, the Madham Line, is almost the most important thing in my life. Next to Andy Morrow, my best friend. Lots of people think Doug Hanson is a freak -- he gets beat up after school, and the girl of his dreams calls him a worm. Doug's only refuge is creating an elaborate bridge for the model railroad in his basement and hanging out with his best friend, Andy Morrow, a popular football star who could date any girl in school. Doug and Andy talk about everything -- except what happened at the Tuttle place a few years back. It does not matter to Andy that we live in completely different realities. I'm Andy's best friend. It does not matter to Andy that we hardly ever actually do anything together. As Doug retreats deeper and deeper into his own reality, long-buried secrets threaten to destroy both Doug and Andy -- and everything else in Doug's fragile world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

142

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439107041

ISBN 13

9781439107041

Godless

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Godless

By: Pete Hautman

Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion?" Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god -- the town's water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of worshippers: his snail-farming best friend, Shin, cute-as-a-button (whatever that means) Magda Price, and the violent and unpredictable Henry Stagg. As their religion grows, it takes on a life of its own. While Jason struggles to keep the faith pure, Shin obsesses over writing their bible, and the explosive Henry schemes to make the new faith even more exciting -- and dangerous. When the Chutengodians hold their first ceremony high atop the dome of the water tower, things quickly go from merely dangerous to terrifying and deadly. Jason soon realizes that inventing a religion is a lot easier than controlling it, but control it he must, before his creation destroys both his friends and himself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

224

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439107432

ISBN 13

9781439107430

Blank Confession

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blank Confession

By: Pete Hautman

A new and enigmatic student named Shayne appears at high school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the school, and takes on a notorious drug dealer before turning himself in to the police for killing someone.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1416913289

ISBN 13

9781416913283

Doohickey

A Novel

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Doohickey

A Novel

By: Pete Hautman

Nick Fashon is having a bad day. He's just found out his estranged grandfather has died mysteriously in the Arizona desert. Then he meets his potential father-in-law, who turns out to be an ex-cop with a screw loose and a penchant for bean dip. To top it off, he returns home to find his successful clothing shop has just burned to the ground and taken his upstairs apartment with it. Love & Fashion was Nick Fashon and Vince Love's thriving clothing store until it went up in flames -- the work of an arsonist, police say. Suddenly Nick is homeless and disillusioned, and both the insurance investigators and the police want a word with him. Where can he turn for help? He's wearing out his welcome with his archaeologist girlfriend, Gretchen, who's developing her own suspicions about him. His business partner and best friend, Vince, isn't much help either, as Nick discovers more and more disturbing clues that point to Vince as the one who set the blaze. Things begin to look up when Nick finds out his eccentric late grandfather has left him an unusual inheritance: a thriving pet-coffin business and a barn full of peculiar inventions, including one particularly interesting doohickey called the HandyMate. The HandyMate is the ultimate kitchen gadget -- a simple tool that can cut, core, chop, slice, and potentially transform the domestic world. Full of entrepreneurial zeal, Nick is determined to see one in every kitchen drawer in America. But Nick isn't the only one planning to strike it rich with the HandyMate. Yola Fuentes, Nick's grandfather's irresistibly sexy business partner, is so determined to get the HandyMate that she makes Nick an offer he can't refuse. And Robo Fuentes, her jealous ex-husband, has a bullet with Nick's name on it if he takes her up on that offer. Nick quickly finds himself caught in a situation where a twisted thing of plastic might end up costing him his girlfriend, his self-respect -- and his life. With the help of a cast of colorful characters, master storyteller Pete Hautman delivers a stylish and funny mystery with more twists and turns than the HandyMate itself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

357

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

143913037X

ISBN 13

9781439130377

Answers to Dog

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Answers to Dog

By: Pete Hautman

National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a friendship like no other—and the universal truth that dogs make life better, especially for underdogs. Evan doesn’t seem to fit in at school or at home. He goes out of his way to avoid attention. He sits at the back of the bus, keeps his head down in class, and keeps to himself. But when a burr-covered border collie—a survivor with a gut instinct about the Boy—starts following him around and joining him on his runs, Evan’s simple duck-and-dodge existence becomes a lot more complicated . . . a lot more like life. Evolving from wary companions to steadfast friends, Evan and the dog run fast and far together, thwart an abusive dog breeder and the school bully, and find the courage to stand up for themselves and to open up to those who matter most. Narrated in alternating viewpoints, this relatable contemporary novel with classic coming-of-age themes has all the hope, pathos, and emotional complexity that mark Pete Hautman’s books for middle-grade readers—and is a deeply satisfying read for animal lovers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

206

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1536240060

ISBN 13

9781536240061

The Forgetting Machine

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Forgetting Machine

By: Pete Hautman

Ginger Crump solves the mystery of why people in her town are forgetting things they should definitely know"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

224

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1481464388

ISBN 13

9781481464383

Drawing Dead

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Drawing Dead

By: Pete Hautman

DIVAfter losing a poker hand to a sleazy stockbroker, an ex-cop must work to pay off his debt/divDIV Before cocaine, Joe Crow had a wife and a job with the Big River Police Department. Now he has neither—and he’s left behind coke, too. Sober, quiet, and reflective, his only vice is poker. One night he gets into trouble, and winds up in debt to the drug-addled slimeball Dickie Wicky. As repayment, Crow agrees to do Dickie a favor./divDIV /divDIVDickie thinks his wife, a slender young thing called Catfish, is running around on him. He wants Crow to find her lover and pay him to leave her alone. But Catfish has charms and troubles of her own, and she will draw Crow into the underbelly of Minnesota—a world of drugs, murder, and the dangerous business of counterfeit comic books. This girl is one fish that Crow should have thrown back./div

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

423

Publisher

Open Road Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1480406198

ISBN 13

9781480406193

The Rat Queen

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rat Queen

By: Pete Hautman

From National Book Award winner Pete Hautman comes a mysterious modern-day fairy tale about developing a moral compass—and the slippery nature of conscience. For Annie’s tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It’s called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paper into a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie’s inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less guilty about the mean things she says and does. As a plague of rats threatens her small suburban town and the mystery of her birthright grows, Annie—caught in a cycle of purging her misdeeds—begins to stop growing. It is only when she travels to her family’s home country of Litvania to learn more about the burna that Annie uncovers the magnitude of the truth. Gripping and emotionally complex, Pete Hautman’s inventive yarn for middle-grade readers draws on magical realism to explore coming of age and the path to moral responsibility.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

401

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1536227242

ISBN 13

9781536227246

Snatched

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Snatched

By: Pete Hautman

From award-winning author Pete Hautman and Mary Logue comes a lively mystery series. When high school student Alicia Camden suddenly disappears, the small town of Bloodwater is in shock. And it’s up to Roni Delicata, reporter for the school newspaper The Bloodwater Pump, and her brilliant sidekick, Brian Bain, to figure out what’s going on. With suspects all around them and suspicions high, Roni and Brian risk their lives -- and a few groundings from their parents -- to get to the bottom of things. But can they find Alicia and solve the mystery before it’s too late? Full of suspense and humor, readers will love to watch the hilarious relationship between Roni and Brian as they save the day.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101118032

ISBN 13

9781101118030

The Obsidian Blade

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Obsidian Blade

By: Pete Hautman

Kicking off a riveting sci-fi trilogy, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman plunges us into a world where time is a tool — and the question is, who will control it? The first time his father disappeared, Tucker Feye had just turned thirteen. The Reverend Feye simply climbed on the roof to fix a shingle, let out a scream, and vanished — only to walk up the driveway an hour later, looking older and worn, with a strange girl named Lahlia in tow. In the months that followed, Tucker watched his father grow distant and his once loving mother slide into madness. But then both of his parents disappear. Now in the care of his wild Uncle Kosh, Tucker begins to suspect that the disks of shimmering air he keeps seeing — one right on top of the roof — hold the answer to restoring his family. And when he dares to step into one, he’s launched on a time-twisting journey — from a small Midwestern town to a futuristic hospital run by digitally augmented healers, from the death of an ancient prophet to a forest at the end of time. Inevitably, Tucker’s actions alter the past and future, changing his world forever.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

312

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

076365972X

ISBN 13

9780763659721

The Big Crunch

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Big Crunch

By: Pete Hautman

A funny, clear-eyed view of the realities of teenage love from National Book Award winner Pete Hautman. June and Wes do not "meet cute." They do not fall in love at first sight. They do not swoon with scorching desire. They do not believe that they are instant soul mates destined to be together forever. This is not that kind of love story. Instead, they just hang around in each other's orbits...until eventually they collide. And even after that happens, they're still not sure where it will go. Especially when June starts to pity-date one of Wes's friends, and Wes makes some choices that he immediately regrets. From National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, this is a love story for people not particularly biased toward romance. But it is romantic, in the same way that truth can be romantic and uncertainty can be the biggest certainty of all.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

Scholastic Paperbacks

Published Date

ISBN 10

054524076X

ISBN 13

9780545240765

The Cydonian Pyramid

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Cydonian Pyramid

By: Pete Hautman

A sequel to The Obsidian Blade finds an escaped Tucker Feye and Lah Lia hurtling through time while relating their stories from alternating viewpoints that converge at crucial moments. By the National Book Award-winning author of Godless.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

369

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0763654043

ISBN 13

9780763654047

Mr. Was

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mr. Was

By: Pete Hautman

Jack Lund figures a good day is when his dad's too drunk to beat up his mom. For Jack, Bogg's End is the end. The end of the turbulent, see-saw years of watching his father go on the wagon and fall right back off gain. Once it took two years, but the inevitable inevitably happened. Now it's just Jack and his mom starting over in the strange old house his grandfather left them. But the ride's not over yet. Jack's father returns, full of apologies and promises, and for a little while, things are looking up. Then in one terrifying, sickening moment, everything comes crashing back down again. So Jack runs. He runs through a strange hidden door that takes him back in time to before his parents were born. Before he was born. Maybe with a second chance he can stop the inevitable. At least he's got to try. What Jack doesn't understand, though, is that he can't change his future until he faces his past.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

260

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439115745

ISBN 13

9781439115749

Eden West

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Eden West

By: Pete Hautman

Tackling faith, doubt, and transformation, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a boy’s unraveling allegiance to an insular cult. Twelve square miles of paradise, surrounded by an eight-foot-high chain-link fence: this is Nodd, the land of the Grace. It is all seventeen-year-old Jacob knows. Beyond the fence lies the World, a wicked, terrible place, doomed to destruction. When the Archangel Zerachiel descends from Heaven, only the Grace will be spared the horrors of the Apocalypse. But something is rotten in paradise. A wolf invades Nodd, slaughtering the Grace’s sheep. A new boy arrives from outside, and his scorn and disdain threaten to tarnish Jacob’s contentment. Then, while patrolling the borders of Nodd, Jacob meets Lynna, a girl from the adjoining ranch, who tempts him to sample the forbidden Worldly pleasures that lie beyond the fence. Jacob’s faith, his devotion, and his grip on reality are tested as his feelings for Lynna blossom into something greater and the End Days grow ever closer. Eden West is the story of two worlds, two hearts, the power of faith, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

076367690X

ISBN 13

9780763676902

Short Money

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Short Money

By: Pete Hautman

DIVDesperate for cash, small town cop Joe Crow takes a security job that could cost him his life/divDIV Joe Crow celebrates his thirty-third birthday in his patrol car, watching for speeders and sniffing fat lines of cocaine. A depressed cop with a faltering marriage, a rotten stomach, and an increasingly expensive drug habit, Crow is just looking for a drink and a poker game when he steps into Birdy’s. Instead, he meets a man who might be able to save his life—or destroy it./divDIV /divDIVHe first notices Dr. Nelson Bellwether when the liposuction expert has a chair smashed over his head. A surgeon with a big mouth, a gambler’s personality, and some serious debt to the IRS, he’s on his way to deep trouble, and he’s going to bring Crow along for the ride. Dr. Bellwether needs a bodyguard, and Crow is his man. Pretty soon, this small town cop will wish he had a bodyguard of his own./div

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

408

Publisher

Open Road Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1480406228

ISBN 13

9781480406223

The Obsidian Blade

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Obsidian Blade

By: Pete Hautman

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

312

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

076365972X

ISBN 13

9780763659721

Ring Game

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ring Game

By: Pete Hautman

Ex-cop Joe Crow, unexpectedly finds himself drawn into the midst of a con man's scheme and must keep one-step ahead of a family friend bent on revenge, a group of cultists, counterfeiters, and a woman bodybuilder who wears her dead goldfish around her neck.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

452

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0671021451

ISBN 13

9780671021450

Snatched

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Snatched

By: Pete Hautman

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101118032

ISBN 13

9781101118030

How to Steal a Car

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

How to Steal a Car

By: Pete Hautman

Fifteen-year-old, suburban high school student Kelleigh, who has her learner's permit, recounts how she began stealing cars one summer, for reasons that seem unclear even to her.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

178

Publisher

Scholastic Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

0545112877

ISBN 13

9780545112871

Mr. Was

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mr. Was

By: Pete Hautman

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

260

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439115745

ISBN 13

9781439115749

Blank Confession

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blank Confession

By: Pete Hautman

Shayne Blank is the new kid in town—but that doesn’t stop him from getting into a lot of trouble, very quickly. The other kids don’t understand him. He’s not afraid of anything. He seems too smart. His background doesn’t add up. And when he walks into the police department to confess to a murder, it quickly becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems. There’s more to Shayne—and his story—than meets the eye. And as the details pile up, the only thing that becomes clear is that nothing is clear at all.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442436387

ISBN 13

9781442436381

What Boys Really Want

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

What Boys Really Want

By: Pete Hautman

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

306

Publisher

Scholastic Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

0545393191

ISBN 13

9780545393195

All-in

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

All-in

By: Pete Hautman

Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442433353

ISBN 13

9781442433359

The Klaatu Terminus

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Klaatu Terminus

By: Pete Hautman

National Book Award winner Pete Hautman weaves several diverging time streams into one satisfying masterwork in this stunning and revelatory series finale. In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find themselves atop a crumbling pyramid in an abandoned city. In present-day Hopewell, Tucker’s uncle Kosh faces armed resistance and painful memories as he attempts to help a terrorized woman named Emma, who is being held captive by a violent man. And on a train platform in 1997, a seventeen-year-old Kosh is given an instruction that will change his life, and the lives of others, forever. Tucker, Lia, and Kosh must evade the pursuit of maggot-like Timesweeps, battle Master Gheen’s cult of Lambs, all while they puzzle out the enigmatic Boggsians as they search for one another and the secrets of the diskos. Who built them? Who is destroying them? Where — and when — will it all end?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

369

Publisher

Candlewick

Published Date

ISBN 10

0763654051

ISBN 13

9780763654054

The Mortal Nuts

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Mortal Nuts

By: Pete Hautman

DIVTargeted by drug addicts, a carnival taco vendor must defend his fortune/divDIV After years playing professional poker, Axel Speeter knows not to trust people. Retired from the table, this no-nonsense old salt makes ends meet by selling tacos at the Minnesota State Fair, and he’s got two things on his mind: developing a state-of-the-art burrito, and keeping an eye on the $260,000 he’s got squirreled away in coffee cans inside his room at the Motel 6. He’s so busy perfecting his Bueno Burrito that he doesn’t even notice when James Dean walks into the carnival./divDIV /divDIVThis James Dean isn’t famous, but he’s certainly wild. A drug addicted ex-con with a taste for mayhem, he’s got his eye on Speeter’s coffee cans, but quickly finds that the old hustler is not as brittle as your average taco shell. When a crook meets a carny, someone’s bound to get hurt./div

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

317

Publisher

Open Road Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1480406201

ISBN 13

9781480406209

No Limit

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

No Limit

By: Pete Hautman

A teen develops a gambling addiction in this risk-heavy read—in trade paperback for the first time. Sixteen-year-old Denn Doyle’s troubles begin with a seemingly harmless—and extremely profitable—game of poker with some neighborhood kids. Eager to join the adult world, Denn realizes that casinos and poker are a means to do exactly that. His “hobby” progresses to a habit and then to an addiction that threatens relationships with his parents, girlfriend, and best friend. Hautman explores the escalation of Denn’s gambling without preachiness, dealing with his problem in a straightforward and knowledgeable manner.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

228

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439120781

ISBN 13

9781439120781

The Prop

A Novel

By: Pete Hautman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Prop

A Novel

By: Pete Hautman

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

390

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0743288904

ISBN 13

9780743288903

Book's by Pete Hautman

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email