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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1994
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • Just last week, Michael Tegoff was a normal fifteen-year-old guy. He was looking forward to the new school year and planning to try out for the basketball team. Then his father and stepmother dumped him at St. Matthew's Military Academy. St. Ma...



  • In a world where children under twelve are used as slave labor in subterranean lime mines, eleven-year-old Whensday Bluehouse struggles to survive the continuous poison rains and evade the ruthless Syndicate Soldiers. Reprint....



  • On the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby in tow, Custis, Curl, and Boobie are three young people with deeply troubled pasts and bleak futures. As they struggle to find a new life for themselves, it becomes painfully clear that none of them wi...



  • New York City, the early 1990s: the recession is in full swing and young people are squatting in abandoned buildings in the East Village while the homeless riot in Tompkins Square Park. The Internet is not part of daily life; the term "dot-com" has y...





  • Steve Nugent is in Burnstone Grove, a facility for kids who are either addicts or have tried to commit suicide. But Steve doesn't fit in either group, and he used to go to the gifted school. So why is he in Burnstone Grove? Keeping a journal, Steve t...



  • An award-winning writer and playwright hits the open road for a searing novel-in-letters about a street kid on a highstakes trek across America. For a runaway boy who goes by the name "Punkzilla," kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in ...



  • The world is dying.  After most of the city succumbed to the plague, Welton's staying inside -- permanently.  But hiding in his claustrophobic basement room -- the only place he knows is safe -- exacts a gruesome price, and he becomes part of a col...



  • The future waits for no one.

    In this new world, speed and efficiency are everything, and the populace zooms along in a perpetually stimulated haze. Angela thinks she's the only person in her family―maybe the only person on the planet―who...






  • Three teenagers -- Bounce, the genius girl, and her drifter sidekicks, Wiggins and Orange -- are holding Frog hostage. The four-year-old Frog seems content to live on cereal and to play a video game about wolves all day long, a game that eerily paral...



  • Little Chicago opens in the office of Children’s Services, where eleven-year-old Blacky Brown is being interviewed by a social worker who is trying to determine what has happened to him. At first, Blacky’s emotions are blocked, but then he revea...



  • From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom. As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, thirty-something Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recoveri...



  • What is it like to be a giant? Meet Corinthia Bledsoe, a seven-foot tall high-school junior who can predict the future. Over seven feet tall and with a newfound ability to sense future events, Corinthia Bledsoe is far more than just another Midwes...



  • The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst in this “masterful novel” that “peers into the dark heart of America” (Richard Ford, Pulitzer P...


Award-Winning Books by Adam Rapp

Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
2006 Schneider Family Book Award -- Teen


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Adam Rapp has published 14 books.

Adam Rapp does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wolf at the Table, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Adam Rapp, Missing the Piano, was published in July 1994.

No. Adam Rapp does not write books in series.