King, A. S., (Amy Sarig) 1970- creator author. Kueck, Anna illustrator. text bibliography novel Young adult fiction Detective and mystery fiction nyu 2024 2024 monographic eng 383 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm "From two-time Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family. Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father, who confines Jane's mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she's at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she gains access to the files for a lifetime of security camera videos -- her lifetime. Pick the Lock is a punk opera, a primal scream, and a portrait of a family buried in lies." -- Jacket flap adolescent A.S. KING ; Illustration by Anna Kueck Mothers and daughters Fiction Dysfunctional families Fiction Surrealism Fiction Opera Fiction 813.6 9780593353974 PPAK 251111 20251111100907.0 eng