Books by Jeff Zentner

Josie and Delia are best friends and co-hosts on their own public access TV show, Midnite Matinee. But the end of senior year is coming, and Josie is torn between pursuing her television dreams in a new city or staying making TV with her BFF.

Dill's father is in jail for an unspeakable crime. Shunned by the neighbours in their small religious Tennessee town, Dill and his mother try to make ends meet. Dill's only respite from poverty and prejudice are his two friends: Lydia and Travis.

Anyone can break your heart--Jeff Zentner can also make you laugh out loud! --RAINBOW ROWELL, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carry On and Eleanor & Park From the Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King comes a contemporary novel about two best friends who must ma...ke tough decisions about their futures--and the TV show they host--in their senior year of high school. Every Friday night, best friends Delia and Josie become Rayne Ravenscroft and Delilah Darkwood, hosts of the campy creature feature show Midnite Matinee on the local cable station TV Six. But with the end of senior year quickly approaching, the girls face tough decisions about their futures. Josie has been dreading graduation, as she tries to decide whether to leave for a big university and chase her dream career in mainstream TV. And Lawson, one of the show's guest performers, a talented MMA fighter with weaknesses for pancakes, fantasy novels, and Josie, is making her tough decision even harder. Scary movies are the last connection Delia has to her dad, who abandoned the family years ago. If Midnite Matinee becomes a hit, maybe he'll see it and want to be a part of her life again. And maybe Josie will stay with the show instead of leaving her behind, too. As the tug-of-war between growing up and growing apart tests the bonds of their friendship, Josie and Delia start to realize that an uncertain future can be both monstrous...and momentous. I laughed, cried, and fell over-the-moon in love with Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee. --JENNIFER NIVEN, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe A testament to the power of friendship and big dreams, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee had me laughing aloud on one page and sobbing on the next. A resounding triumph. --NIC STONE, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee starts as comedy about the wildly imperfect, and ends as poetry about the ever-hoping heart. I do
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Aclamada por la cr tica, nominada en las diez mejores listas del a o y ganadora del Premio William C. Morris, El rey serpiente es la historia de tres adolescentes que se encuentran a s mismos, y entre ellos, mientras esperan graduarse de la escuela secundaria con la esperanza de ...dejar atr s un peque o pueblo de Tennessee. Dill ha tenido que luchar con v boras toda su vida, en su casa, como el nico hijo de un ministro pentecostal que lo insta a manejar venenosas serpientes de cascabel, y en la escuela, donde se enfrenta a matones que lo atacan por las extremas actitudes de fe de su padre y su car cter solitario. El nico ant doto es su amistad con sus dos excluidos compa eros Travis y Lydia. Pero Dill siente que las vueltas de su futuro se tensan a su alrededor. El final de la escuela secundaria ser un nuevo comienzo para Lydia, cuyo blog de modas es su boleto para la universidad. Y Travis puede transformar su dura realidad familiar en momentos felices gracias a su obsesi n con la fantas a pica Bloodfall. Los nicos escapes de Dill son su m sica y sus sentimientos secretos hacia Lydia, ninguno de los cuales le alcanza para reaccionar. Pero, antes de fin de curso, deber hacer frente a otro final, que sacudir su vida hasta el n cleo.
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Told in two voices, Josie and Delia struggle with growing up and growing apart as they face tough decisions about their post-high school futures and the fate of their weekly cable television show.