Grasshopper Jungle
Andrew Smith
Grasshopper Jungle won the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and was a 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It's the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it. You know what I mean. Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN-13
- 9781101590065
- Genre
- Young AdultScience Fiction
- Topics
- Coming of ageSexuality and identityApocalypse
Awards
- Michael L. Printz AwardShortlisted(2015)
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