Everybody Sees the Ants

By A. S. King

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Everybody Sees the Ants is a young adult novel by A. S. King, published in 2011. Fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman is bullied at school and lives with parents who avoid conflict. In his dreams he tries to rescue his grandfather, a soldier missing since the Vietnam War. After an attack by a bully, he spends the summer with his aunt and uncle in Arizona, where he begins to face his problems. The novel mixes humor and magical realism.

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• John Green: “And if you liked the no-spoilers parts, then I recommend Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King and If I Stay by Gayle Forman.”