Hautman (Invisible ) explores the modernday tension between safety and freedom in this intelligent and darkly comic satire set 70 years in the future. Despite the daily dose of sedative required for ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. The simple story behind National Book Award-winner Pete Hautman's new novel is a teenage girl just told him what she wanted to read. He was with a group of ...

MANKATO — Minnesota State University’s Good Thunder Reading Series continues its 2013-2014 schedule next week with Twin Cities fiction writer for young adults Pete Hautman and Texas poet and creative ...

You can trace Pete Hautman’s “Answers to Dog” back to his childhood love of classics such as Jack London’s “Call of the Wild” and “White Fang” or Jim Kjelgaard’s “Big Red.” “When I was a kid, the ...

A new middle-grade novel by award-winning Pete Hautman, two mysteries and a horror anthology. Who could ask for anything more on an autumn Sunday? (Courtesy of Candlewick Press) “Answers to Dog”: by ...

PW said of this novel, originally titled Stone Cold, which tracks a teen's descent into the world of high-stakes poker, "Hautman's latest compellingly echoes gambling's siren call." Ages 12-up. (June) ...

Hautman's Godless (2005) won a National Book Award for Young People's Fiction, but his impressive, sharply written new crime thriller is definitely for adults—especially those who would rather play ...

Showing his range, Hautman (How to Steal a Car) writes a love story that's affecting despite, or perhaps because of, its ordinariness. Wes and June know each other, vaguely, from high school, but ...

A wily border collie shakes up a boy’s quiet life in this finely tuned, heartfelt novel by Hautman (The Rat Queen). Eighth grader Evan and his distracted parents lead a monotonous existence following ...

One of the oldest tropes—a stranger comes to town—gets fresh treatment in this gripping whodunit. Sixteen-year-old Shayne Blank arrives at the police station to confess to murder; his story spills out ...

In this engrossing sequel to The Flinkwater Factor, Ginger Crump, now 14, has some problems on her hands. An ever-increasing number of people in Flinkwater, Iowa, home to many science and software ...

This folktale-based mystery from Hautman (Road Tripped) centers Annike “Annie” Klimas, raised by her single father, who, along with the housekeeper who homeschools her, hails from the Queendom of ...