Adam Rapp

The Children and the Wolves

Hardcover | 160 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Physical & Emotional Abuse; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Violence; Juvenile Fiction - Social Issues - Bullying
978-0-7636-5337-8 (0-7636-5337-3)

February 28, 2012 | $19.00



Printz Honor-winning author Adam Rapp spins a raw, gripping, and ultimately redemptive story about three disaffected teens and a kidnapped child.

Three teenagers — a sharp, well-to-do girl named Bounce and two struggling boys named Wiggins and Orange — are holding a four-yearold girl hostage in Orange’s basement. The little girl answers...

Punkzilla

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Runaways; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Death & Dying
978-0-7636-5297-5 (0-7636-5297-0)

December 28, 2010 | $10.00



An award-winning writer and playwright hits the open road for a searing novel-in-letters about a street kid on a highstakes trek across America.

For a runaway boy who goes by the name "Punkzilla," kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland, Oregon, is a prelude to a mission...

Punkzilla

Hardcover | 256 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Runaways; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Death & Dying; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse
978-0-7636-3031-7 (0-7636-3031-4)

May 12, 2009 | $19.00



An award-winning writer and playwright hits the open road for a searing novel-in-letters about a street kid on a highstakes trek across America.

For a runaway boy who goes by the name "Punkzilla," kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland, Oregon, is a prelude to a mission...

Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Adolescence; Juvenile Fiction - Social Issues - Depression & Mental Illness; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Suicide
978-0-7636-3365-3 (0-7636-3365-8)

May 8, 2007 | $11.50



"Steve Nugent is a character as distinctive and disturbing as Salinger’s Holden Caulfield." — BOOKLIST (starred review)

Steve Nugent is in Burnstone Grove, a facility for kids who are either addicts or have tried to commit suicide. But Steve doesn’t fit in either group, and he used to go to the gifted...

33 Snowfish

Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Readers - Intermediate; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Runaways; Juvenile Fiction - Readers - Chapter Books
978-0-7636-2917-5 (0-7636-2917-0)

February 14, 2006 | $9.00



"Adam Rapp's brilliant and haunting story will break your heart. But then his words will mend it. . . . Absolutely unforgettable." - Michael Cart

On the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby in tow, Custis, Curl, and Boobie are three young people with deeply troubled pasts and bleak...

Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

Hardcover | 320 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Adolescence; Juvenile Fiction - Social Issues - Depression & Mental Illness; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Suicide
978-0-7636-1818-6 (0-7636-1818-7)

September 23, 2004 | $23.99



Alternately heartbreaking and starkly humorous, this teenager's brutal story of escape and desire for redemption is masterfully told by award-winning writer and film director Adam Rapp.

I'm what they call a Gray Grouper. The Red Groupers are the junkies and the Blue Groupers are the suicide kids.

Steve Nugent is in a facility...