Goats

Harmless camp pranks can quickly spiral out of control, but they also provide a perfect opportunity for two social outcasts to overcome and triumph.

Publishers Weekly

One of the publisher's first titles in its new line of teen fiction is this widely praised, thought-provoking novel about two children who find inner strength under stressful circumstances. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)

BROCK COLE is the author of several highly acclaimed novels as well as the author and illustrator of many picture books, including Good Enough to Eat, Buttons, and Larky Mavis. He’s also the illustrator of George Washington’s Teeth, available from Square Fish. He lives in Buffalo, New York.

Of his first novel, The Goats, Anita Silvey wrote in a Horn Book Magazine editorial, “The Goats reaffirms my belief that children’s literature is alive and thriving.” Betsy Hearne, editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, lauded it as “one of the most important books of the decade.”