Winner of the 2024 Michael L. Printz Award
A National Bestseller

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

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

M. T. Anderson, e. E. Charlton-Trujillo, A.S. King, David Levithan, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, G. Neri, Jason Reynolds, Randy Ribay, and Jenny Torres Sanchezhave each penned a surprising and provocative tale.

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