New Releases by M.T. Anderson

Three heroic middle schoolers face improbable monsters and evil masterminds in the “layered, beautiful, smart, and achingly funny…[i]n a word, brilliant” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Pals in Peril series from National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson, now available in a collectible boxed set! Lily Gefelty is an average twelve-year-old girl. But her dad just so happens to work for an evil genius who plans to unleash an army of extremely cranky, stilt-walking, laser-beam-eyed whales upon the world. Lucky for Lily, her two best friends are anything but average. Both of them are famous for their adventures. Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut, invents gadgets; Katie Mulligan spends her spare time fighting off zombies and were-goats. Surely they’ll know what to do. And if they don’t? Then it will be up to Lily—average, everyday Lily—to come up with a plan. A scourge of whales is only the start of this trio’s adventures. Will their smarts and teamwork be enough for them to defeat the evil beings on the rise…and escape Delaware? This zany, action-packed paperback boxed set includes: Whales on Stilts! The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware Agent Q, or the Smell of Danger! Zombie Mommy He Laughed with His Other Mouths

Ci sono sistemi ben più sottili ed efficaci della forza per piegare un popolo alla schiavitù. Lo sanno bene i vuvv, che al loro atterraggio non hanno spianato sui terrestri fucili e cannoni, anzi, hanno distribuito gratuitamente meraviglie: farmaci che tutto curano, fonti di energia inesauribili, cibi perfetti che in un batter di ciglia debellano la fame nel mondo. Prodotti rivoluzionari e irresistibili, insomma di cui loro possiedono il monopolio, e di cui, ovviamente, si precipitano a fissare il prezzo. I vuvv non sono soldati, insomma, ma affaristi, e il loro arrivo stravolge l''economia, brucia milioni di posti di lavoro, mette la Terra in ginocchio. Ad Adam, 17 anni, non resta che inventarsi un lavoro, qualsiasi cosa pur di portare a casa quello stipendio che i genitori non riescono più a racimolare. La soluzione più felice mette insieme piacere e dovere, perché i vuvv mostrano una sciocca ossessione per il mondo patinato del passato, e così Adam e la sua ragazza Chloe iniziano a registrare i loro appuntamenti in posticcio stile anni Cinquanta per poi rivenderli agli invasori su un canale pay-per-view. Tutto funziona a meraviglia, fino a quando nell''idillio d''amore si spalancano crepe sempre più profonde, e Adam si ritrova costretto a chiedersi a quanto è disposto a rinunciare di se stesso pur di accontentare i vuuv.

In a stunning visual interpretation of a 12th-century epic poem by Chrétien de Troyes, readers are transported into a classic Arthurian romance complete with errant knights, plundering giants, and fire-breathing dragons.

Originally published: Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2015.

The sampler includes chapters from three of M. T. Anderson’s satirical novels: Feed, Thirsty, and Burger Wuss. Feed M. T. Anderson’s not-so-brave new world is a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now. Thirsty A savagely funny tale of terror, teen angst, suspense, and satire Burger Wuss M. T. Anderson cooks up a story of love and betrayal, with a side order of revenge—and serves it all with comedic relish.

In the sixth and final Pals in Peril tale that “offers adventure, wit, and heart” (Booklist), Jasper Dash is off into the universe to search for his long-lost father! In this action-packed conclusion to the celebrated Pals in Peril series, Jasper Dash soars to unprecedented heights—as in, intergalactic, out-of-this-world dimensions—in order to locate the father he’s never known. And if Jasper’s previous adventures are any indication, this is going to be one stellar expedition! He Laughed with His Other Mouths is “layered, beautiful, smart, and achingly funny. In a word, brilliant” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Home from their latest Delaware crime-stopping adventures, Lily Gefelty and her friends Katie, Jasper, and Drgnan Pghlik face killer tarantulas and teenaged vampires when they try to rescue Lily''s mother, who has been possessed by a menacing zombie that wants to take over the world.

Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. This new edition contains new back matter and a refreshed cover. A National Book Award finalist.

In the zany and humorous fourth book of National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s Pals in Peril series, Jasper Dash and his friends must escape the clutches of The Awful Autarch! Having mopped up their last crime-fighting caper, our three heroes—Lily Gefelty, Katie Mulligan, and Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut—are eager to get home. But the secret police in the war-torn realm of fantasy where the three kids are trapped (the state of Delaware) don’t want them going anywhere. Our dynamic trio knows way too much about the whereabouts of certain fabulous treasures to escape the grip of Delaware’s Ministry of Silence. So, chums, it’s a race to the border of New Jersey against spies and government agents and double-crossers...That is, if our heroes make it home alive! Chock-full of ups, downs, twists, turns, a shark pit, and even a band of sentient lobsters fighting on the side of Good, this fourth installment of the Pals in Peril series is every bit as wild, wacky, and wonderfully outrageous as the first three.

Looking forward to a vacation, Katie, Lily, and Jasper attach their flying Gyroscopic Sky Suite to the Moose Tongue Lodge and Resort, where they mingle with other child heroes found in books, and where they become embroiled in a mystery involving lederhosen-clothed quintuplets and a screaming ventriloquist.

“The invention never flags.” —Booklist (starred review) In this third weird and wacky installment of National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson’s Pals in Peril series, Jasper Dash and his friends must unravel a terrible mystery. It is a land of wonders. It is a land of mystery. It is a land that time forgot (or chose specifically not to remember). Cut off from the civilized world for untold years by prohibitive interstate tolls at the New Jersey border, this land is called: Delaware. It is into the mist-shrouded heart of this forbidden mountainous realm that our plucky and intrepid heroes, Jasper Dash: Boy Technonaut, and his friends Lily Gefelty and Katie Mulligan, must journey to solve yet another a mystery. Come along on a tale of grand adventure that includes in its pages: Lost cities! Tentacles! Monks! Dinosaurs! Cheap suits! Eye Doctors! And, of course, the fabled Curse of the Jaguar!

Anderson’s imaginative and highly intelligent exploration of . . . the ambiguous history of America’s origins will leave readers impatient for the sequel. — The New York Times Book Review Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers — but it is only after he opens a forbidden door that learns the hideous nature of their experiments, and his own chilling role them. Set in Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson’s mesmerizing novel takes place at a time when Patriots battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.

Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.