{"product_id":"atty-in-love-isbn-9781644213988","title":"Atty in Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e Best Young Adult Book of the Year, 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tender and funny contemporary story about first love \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e animal rights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen feisty 13 year old Atticus Peale meets a mysterious boy in her Alabama town, she has to make a tough choice between her values as an activist and her first real love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAtticus T. Peale—Atty for short—is thirteen and a self-described advocate for animals. She’s also a vegetarian atheist in the heart of the Deep South’s bible belt, where ribs and guns and church are a way of life, and euthanizing animals is just the way they’ve always dealt with strays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving already been to court to save her dog Easy, Atty spends a lot of her free time designing plans for a no-kill-shelter in her small Alabama town while juggling school work, hanging out with her best friend Reagan, and battling “the blues.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when Atty meets a mysterious boy at the county fair, her world begins to crumble. As it becomes increasingly clear that this boy—with his wild hair and rough hands--works with a captive animal, Atty must choose between her own values and the boy she's fallen for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtty in Love\u003c\/i\u003e is about the tough choices that arise when two principled people disagree. It is also a story about what it means to, as Atty likes to say, “contain multitudes”—to love both men and women, to defend your mixed-race family in the American South, to care for someone who experiences the world in fundamentally different ways than you do. Tender and laugh-out-loud funny, the book includes an interview with the Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic’s real-life animal law expert Katherine Meyer.\"Charming, funny, and heartfelt, \u003ci\u003eAtty in Love\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the excitement of first-time love while also embracing its awkwardness and complexity. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable read for both teens and teens at heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ruth Emmie Lang, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wilderwoman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeasts of Extraordinary Circumstance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Lockette\u003c\/b\u003e is a teacher, writer, and former journalist who lives in Jacksonville, Alabama. His middle-grade debut novel, \u003ci\u003eAtty at Law\u003c\/i\u003e, was praised in a starred review from \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e. His next two novels,\u003ci\u003e Tell It True\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtty in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, were written for young adult readers. \u003ci\u003eTell It True\u003c\/i\u003e was a Junior Literary Guild Selection and won the Whippoorwill Book Award, which honors books that dispel stereotypes about young people in rural areas and small towns.","brand":"Triangle Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304174276837,"sku":"NP9781644213988","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644213988.jpg?v=1767721954","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/atty-in-love-isbn-9781644213988","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}