Pumpkinheads
A Graphic Novel
First Second
Available: 08/27/19
7 x 8.36 · 224 pages
Ages 14-18 years
9781626721623
CDN $26.99
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Canadian Title
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In Pumpkinheads, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award-winning artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this tender and hilarious story about two irresistible teens discovering what it means to leave behind a place - and a person - with no regrets.
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.
Every autumn, all through high school, they've worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye every Halloween, and they're reunited every September 1.
But this Halloween is different - Josiah and Deja are finally seniors, and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last good-bye.
Josiah's ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn't ready to let him. She's got a plan : What if - instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut - they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he's been mooning over for three years . . .
What if their last shift was an adventure?
Rainbow Rowell is the award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and the Simon Snow Trilogy, plus several other novels, short stories, and comics. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska, just like most of her characters. FAITH ERIN HICKS is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer and artist of over a dozen books. Her solo titles include New York Times rave reviewed Friends with Boys, and Eisner Award-winning, The Adventures of Super Hero Girl and The Nameless City: The Divided Earth. Among her many collaborations is the NYT bestselling graphic novel and Goodreads Choice Award winner, Pumpkinheads, with Rainbow Rowell. She drew and co-wrote the graphic novel prequel to the video game The Last of Us, which was subsequently adapted for the screen for HBO. Hicks is a longstanding writer of Avatar: The Last Airbender graphic novels and has written scripts for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic series. Her books are frequently YALSA selections. She lives in Vancouver, B.C.
