The Collectors Stories, A.S. King
The Collectors Stories, A.S. King
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The Collectors: Stories

Author: A.S. King, M. T. Anderson, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, A.S. King, David Levithan

Narrator: Becca Q. Co, Frankie Corzo, Vas Eli, Nicky Endres, Guy Lockard, Alex McKenna, Anthony Rey Perez, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Victoria Villarreal, A.S. King

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/19/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.

From David Levithan’s story about a non-binary kid collecting pieces of other people’s collections to Jenny Torres Sanchez's tale of a girl gathering types of fire while trying not to get burned to G. Neri's piece about 1970's skaters seeking opportunities to go vertical—anything can be collected and in the hands of these award-winning and bestselling authors, any collection can tell a story. Nine of the best YA novelists working today have written fiction based on a prompt from Printz-winner A.S. King (who also contributes a story) and the result is itself an extraordinary collection.

* This program includes a downloadable pdf which contains the fully illustrated story, "Museum of Misery" by Cory McCarthy from the book.

About The Author

Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the best YA writers working today,” A.S. King is the author of over a dozen books for young readers. She is the only two-time winner of the Michael L. Printz Award. She is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is the recipient of both the Margaret A. Edwards Award and the ALAN Award for her lifetime contributions to young adult literature. King lives with her family in Pennsylvania, where she returned after living on a farm and teaching adult literacy in Ireland for more than a decade.

Reviews

Goodreads review by rae (jurdan's version) on May 05, 2024

3.5 ✩ honestly? this wasn't bad. i had fun reading it (surprisingly). i think this is my first short story collection so i didn't really know what to expect but i really liked reading different people's takes on collections and how bizarre a collection can be. i never knew what was going to happen ne......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on January 30, 2024

I usually expect a short story collection to have some hits and misses, but this one was pretty strong all around and absolutely deserving of the Printz! My favorite stories were those by Anna-Marie McLemore, AS King, Jason Reynolds, and MT Anderson (shocking no one who knows me). McLemore combines......more

Goodreads review by Kim on May 09, 2024

3 ½ ⭐️ rounded down. The title of this compilation is clever and apt. This is a collection of imaginative stories about collectors. The editor asked the writers to forget traditional structures and go ahead and get weird. So, they did.  I dig the concepts, and all of the contributors write well, buuu......more

Goodreads review by Kari on February 20, 2024

3.5* This is a weird collection of complex young adult short stories all based on collections (haha, I didn’t consider how meta that was). Some of them I really didn’t understand because they were all definitely a little… experimental feeling? The editor asked the various authors to toss out convent......more

Goodreads review by Jack on October 13, 2023

3.5 - maybe a review to come ?......more

Quotes

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award

★ "An eclectic, poignant, and introspective treasure trove."—Kirkus, starred review

★ "Masterfully collected and worth slowing down to absorb."—SLJ, starred review

★ "[H]ere is a collection notable for the uniform excellence of 10 of its stories, which come from such distinguished creators as M. T. Anderson, David Levithan, Anna-Marie McLemore, Jason Reynolds, and its inimitable editor, King herself…[Readers] will revel in this wonderfully genre-defying, offbeat book that is one of the most original of the year.”—Booklist, starred review

"King proclaims, in an introduction, that 'there is currency in weirdness'; by turns darkly cheeky and piercingly perceptive, this moody and existential grouping of stories lives up to the statement."—Publishers Weekly

Awards

  • Michael L. Printz Award Winner
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