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Original Title:	Everybody Sees the Ants
ISBN:	0316129283 (ISBN13: 9780316129282)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/teens_books_9780316129282.htm
Setting:	Pennsylvania(United States) Arizona(United States)
Literary Awards:	Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2013), Lincoln Award Nominee (2014), Andre Norton Award Nominee (2011), Cybils Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2011), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2014)

Everybody Sees the Ants Hardcover | Pages: 279 pages

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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?

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Title	:	Everybody Sees the Ants
Author	:	A.S. King
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 279 pages
Published	:	October 3rd 2011 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Young Adult. Contemporary. Magical Realism. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Fantasy. Teen

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Actual rating: Is it lame to say 4.5 stars? So this review is long, inadequate, and perhaps a bit rambling and confusing. It doesn't really have plot spoilers (this is a quiet book where not a lot happens, action-wise), but it does have thematic spoilers, so read at your own peril. It's always harder to write about the books that really mean something to me, as opposed to the books I merely like a whole lot, and I can't do it without that. If you want to avoid even the thematic spoilers, just

4.5 out of 5. I don't think I can even express the way this book moved me.

3.5 stars.Everybody Sees the Ants deals with the subject of bullying in quite a thorough way. Ever since he was a little boy, Lucky Linderman has been terrorised by Nader McMillan, who seems to have made it his life-goal to bring Lucky down, down, down to the ground.After the school faculty expresses concerns about Lucky, since he asked his classmates how they would commit suicide, if they wanted to commit suicide, for a school project, everybody thinks Lucky is at risk of hurting himself.But

So much of growing up is just strung together moments of disillusionment, isnt it? As a parent, I want to shelter my children from as much as possible, but as a former child, I have to say that I wish that I had learned certain things a bit sooner. For example, I think that if there were some sort of instruction manual issued at birth, item one, paragraph one would read:1. On Parentsi. The adults in your life may think that they know everything, but in reality, they are just people. And the

Everybody sees the ants?"He looks at me and says, "Well, how many people do you think live perfect lives, son? Aren't we all victims of something at some time or another?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This is my first novel I've read by A.S. King, and I can say with full confidence that this won't be my last. Everybody Sees the Ants is a coming of age-novel that is insanely cool, insanely funny, sad at times, and insane in all the best ways. 1) The Plot Lucky, our main character, lives in

A.S. King: "Everybody Sees the Ants originated from an idea that we are all prisoners. An idea that bullying is a widely ignored form of torture. An idea that only we can choose to escape from our own prisons. An idea that no one can take something from us if we don't give it."This is a very powerful novel. It is a story for everyone because it's true that everyone has to had to face some form of shit in their lives in one way or another. Every day all over the world people are being hurt,

I first bought Everybody Sees the Ants because it had such great reviews and an even better synopsis.A boy that retreats into his dreams to escape reality, and finds himself in war-ridden jungles? A place where he can be anyone he wants to be, a better version of himself even? A place where it becomes so easy to submerge yourself into, rather than live your life? How awesome does that sound? I thought for sure this book is going to be worth the read.Sadly, it wasn't.Yes, as many reviewers have