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I probably wouldnt have read it if my wife hadnt made me, and, even in its first 100 pages or so, i found some of it almost too cringeinducingly reminiscent of my own adolescence to keep goingbut man am i glad i didn. Zentner took on a lot all at once with the serpent king, and as a result, we are all over the place. The southern boy in me savored every syllable and the reader in me fell in love with every page. Shunned by the neighbours in their small religious tennessee town dill and his mother try to make ends meet.
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Perfect for fans of turtles all the way down,thirteen reasons why, and zentner s own the serpent king, one of the most highly acclaimed ya novels of 2016, goodbye days asks what you would do if you could spend one last day with someone you lost. Jeff zentner is a singersongwriter and guitarist who has recorded with iggy pop, nick cave and debbie harry. The serpent king by jeff zentner overdrive rakuten. 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 fathers extreme faith and very public fall from grace. Serpent king author jeff zentner on quitting music and finding the best kind of fame. Jeff zentner wrote a debut novel here worthy of your shelves, time and attention. Morris award, the amelia elizabeth walden award, the international literacy association award, and the westchester fiction award. Jan 20, 2017 ya realistic fiction book trailer created by the bethel park public library staff. You can really tell by your lyricism that you are a songwriter extraordinaire. Jeff zentner the son of a pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural forrestville, tennessee without letting. Before that i had no idea what this book was about, or even what genre it was for some reason every time i saw the covertitle i.
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