The Serpent King

ISBN-10: 0553524054
ISBN-13: 9780553524055
Author: Zentner, Jeff
Interest Level: 9-12
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: June 2017

Copyright: 0

Page Count: 400

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Interest Level

Grades 9-12

Reading Level

Lexile: HL630L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.4
Accelerated Reader Points: 11.0

BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Themes / Sexual Abuse) *

Description
Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life--at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father's extreme faith and very public fall from grace. He and his fellow outcast friends must try to make it through their senior year of high school without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self. Graduation will lead to new beginnings for Lydia, whose edgy fashion blog is her ticket out of their rural Tennessee town. And Travis is content where he is thanks to his obsession with an epic book series and the fangirl turning his reality into real-life fantasy. Their diverging paths could mean the end of their friendship. But not before Dill confronts his dark legacy to attempt to find a way into the light of a future worth living.