Grasshopper jungle : a history

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Label

Grasshopper jungle : a history

Title remainder

a history

Statement of responsibility

by Andrew Smith

Creator

• trueSmith, Andrew, (Andrew Anselmo), 1959-

Author

• trueSmith, Andrew, (Andrew Anselmo), 1959-

Subject

• Bisexual teenagers
• Bisexual teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
• trueBisexuality
• trueDating
• Dating (Social customs)
• trueFamilies
• Families
• trueFamilies -- Iowa
• Families -- Iowa -- Juvenile fiction
• Family life -- Iowa -- Fiction
• trueFriendship
• Friendship
• Friendship -- Fiction
• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGay teenagers
• Gender identity
• Gender identity -- Fiction
• Gender identity -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGenetic engineering
• Genetic engineering
• Genetic engineering -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGenetically engineered insects
• Humorous fiction
• Humorous stories
• Insects
• Insects -- Fiction
• Insects -- Juvenile fiction
• trueIowa
• Iowa
• Iowa -- Fiction
• Iowa -- Juvenile fiction
• JUVENILE FICTION -- Action & Adventure | Survival Stories
• JUVENILE FICTION -- Family | Multigenerational
• JUVENILE FICTION -- Humorous Stories
• JUVENILE FICTION -- Monsters
• JUVENILE FICTION -- Science Fiction
• JUVENILE FICTION -- Social Issues | Friendship
• Juvenile works
• trueLove triangles
• Novels
• Science -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Science -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Juvenile fiction
• Science fiction
• Science fiction
• Science fiction
• trueSexuality
• trueSurvival
• Survival
• Survival -- Fiction
• Survival -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTeenage boys
• trueTeenage romance
• Teenagers -- Sexual behavior
• Teenagers -- Sexual behavior -- Juvenile fiction
• Transgenic animals
• Transgenic animals -- Juvenile fiction
• Weapons of mass destruction -- Juvenile fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Young adult works
• Weapons of mass destruction
• trueBest friends
• Bisexual fiction

Genre

• Science fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Fiction
• Bisexual fiction
• Young adult works
• Humorous fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Novels

Language

eng

Summary

Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong

Tone

• trueDarkly humorous

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Award

• Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry, 2014.
• Rainbow List, 2015.
• School Library Journal Best Books: Fiction, 2014
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2015.

Awards note

• Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction Award Winner, 2014.
• Michael Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Honor, 2015.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• [Fic]
• 813.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3619.M544

LC item number

G73 2014

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 10
• 12

Reading level

6.2

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

adolescent