IN THE PATH OF FALLING OBJECTS - An ALA/YALSA “Best Books for Young Adults, 2010”

Children’s Literature Council Award, 2010

“Southwest Book Award 2011”

In the summer of 1970, after their older brother is shipped off to Vietnam, sixteen-year-old Jonah Vickers and his younger brother, Simon, wander across New Mexico looking for what’s left of their family. They soon find themselves hitching a ride with a violent killer and a lost girl who can’t make any distance between where they are and what she’s running from.

“A brutal but mesmerizing road trip that steers an unswerving course toward tragedy... older teens will be riveted.”                 -- Kirkus Reviews

THE MARBURY LENS

It’s a place worse than Hell. And Jack keeps going back to it. He can’t help himself. Nobody can.

Jack has his reasons.

He has his doubts, too.

See for yourself.

Just a peek.

The Marbury Lens.

"Andrew Smith's The Marbury Lens will own you, mind, body and soul.  You can't put it down, but you'll want to.  You'll want to put it down and walk away but that is not happening.  The Marbury Lens crawls inside your head and won't leave.  Scary, creepy, awful and awesome.  What a cool book!"  

-- Michael Grant, New York Times Bestselling Author of The GONE Series

STICK

Stark McClellan (“Stick”) hears the world in a different way. He is surrounded by cruelty and ugliness, but holds on to a powerful sense of wonder, faith, and love for his best friend, Emily, and the most important person in Stick’s world -- his older brother, Bosten, who happens to be gay.

When the boys’ father throws Bosten out of their home, Stick steals a car and takes off on a three-state odyssey to find and rescue him.

WINGER - Coming SPRING, 2013 from Simon & Schuster

Fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West may be the smartest 11th grader in school, but there are some things he just doesn't get. He's convinced that the woman living downstairs is a witch -- out to destroy his life; believes the girl he's in love with only sees him as some kind of pet; and wonders why his best friend -- the only voice of reason in Ryan Dean's life -- likes other boys more than girls. A funny, sometimes dark, part-graphic YA novel about fitting in, and the consequences that can occur when big deals are made over small differences.

ONCE THERE WERE BIRDS - Coming SPRING, 2014 from Simon & Schuster

A Western, set in Arizona and California, in the year 2350.

Barrett Woods, a boxer from a prison school for boys called Oconee, makes a “break,” and jumps a picking train sent west. He’s followed by a talkative younger boy named Eliot Plum, who is stubbornly determined to stick with Barrett, despite the dangers they encounter. Eliot is hiding a secret from the boxer, and it may cost both boys their lives.

PASSENGER - Coming FALL, 2012

Jack and Conner have a plan.

They think it's the only reasonable way to deal with the Marbury lens.

But the four boys - Jack, Conner, Ben, and Griffin - end up scattered in different places at different times. Jack is lost in a Marbury that isn't Marbury, a Glenbrook that isn't Glenbrook, pursued through every crumbling not-world by an uncaring cop trying to solve the mystery of Freddie Horvath's murder, and a deceitful kid named Quinn Cahill who believes he is the King of Marbury. Jack's universe is collapsing in on itself. He finds his friends. He finds his home.

There's always just one thing, and Jack knows it.

This can't be it.

GHOST MEDICINE - An ALA/YALSA “Best Books for Young Adults, 2009”

“Smith’s first novel... defies expectations via its sublime imagery.” -- Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

“A pitch-perfect coming of age tale destined to be held aloft alongside other classics” -- VOYA