Pick the Lock

By A.S. King

Book Overview

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family.

Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane's mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she's at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videos--her lifetime.

A.S. King's latest surrealist masterpiece follows Jane's bizarre and brilliant journey to reconnect with her mother by breaking out of her shell and composing a punk opera.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593353986
• ISBN13: 9780593353981
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher