Confessions of a candy snatcher

Title
Confessions of a candy snatcher

Personal Author EPSB
Phoebe, Sinclair

Summary
For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have competed to see how many bags of candy they can grab from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. No one's supposed to get hurt, just lose their treats. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets fights back against his snatching attempt. He's even more surprised when he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone who knows what happened that night. Jonas already has enough on his plate, between his parents' ill-defined separation and his own guilt--guilt his friend Concepción challenges him to confront in a zine she's creating around the prompt "What's the worst thing you ever did?" It's a complicated question, one that touches on issues of identity, maturity, physical boundaries, and safety.

Year Published
2023

Physical Description
315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Awards
2026 Young Reader’s Choice Award YRCA Intermediate nominee

Subject
Preteens -- Fiction.
 
African American children -- Fiction.
 
Halloween -- Fiction.
 
Theft -- Fiction.
 
Friendship -- Fiction.
 
Guilt -- Fiction.
 
Zines -- Fiction.

Added Author
Taylor, Theodore, III,

Summary
For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have competed to see how many bags of candy they can grab from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. No one's supposed to get hurt, just lose their treats. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets fights back against his snatching attempt. He's even more surprised when he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone who knows what happened that night. Jonas already has enough on his plate, between his parents' ill-defined separation and his own guilt--guilt his friend Concepción challenges him to confront in a zine she's creating around the prompt "What's the worst thing you ever did?" It's a complicated question, one that touches on issues of identity, maturity, physical boundaries, and safety.

ISBN
9781536213683

Publisher
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023.
 
©2023


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
StratfordF SINBook30577000531443Teen
StratfordF SINBook30577000531450Teen