Full name: Everybody Sees the Ants: A Novel

Author: A. S. King Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Young adult, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: Barns&Noble Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316129275 9780316129282 0316129275 0316129283

Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. He didn't ask for a father who never got over it. He didn't ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. And he didn't ask to be the target of Nader McMillan's relentless bullying, which has finally gone too far. But Lucky has a secret--one that helps him wade through the daily mundane torture of his life. In his dreams, Lucky escapes to the war-ridden jungles of Laos--the prison his grandfather couldn't escape--where Lucky can be a real man, an adventurer, and a hero. It's dangerous and wild, and it's a place where his life just might be worth living. But how long can Lucky keep hiding in his dreams before reality forces its way inside? Similar books: Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers December Stillness by Mary Downing Hahn Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld Beauty Queens by Libba Bray The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth Scars by Cheryl Rainfield All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley Heart to Heart by Lurlene McDaniel Under the Bridge by Michael Harmon Birthday by Meredith Russo Reality Boy by A. S. King