Books by Pete Hautman

Rash

by Pete Hautman

(135 reviews)

Consumption of alcohol: Illegal. Football and other "violent" sports: Illegal. Ownership of guns, chain saws, and/or large dogs: Illegal. Body piercings, tattoos: Illegal. It's late in the twenty-first century, and... See More

The Klaatu Terminus (Klaatu Diskos Book 3)

by Pete Hautman

(51 reviews)

National Book Award winner Pete Hautman weaves several diverging time streams into one satisfying masterwork in this stunning and revelatory series finale. In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find... See More

Short Money

by Pete Hautman

(11 reviews)

Desperate for cash, small town cop Joe Crow takes a security job that could cost him his life Joe Crow celebrates his thirty-third birthday in his patrol car, watching for speeders and sniffing fat lines of cocaine. A... See More

Mrs. Million

by Pete Hautman

(14 reviews)

A lottery jackpot winner decides to turn one of her millions into a bounty for the man who left her Barbaraannette is decorating a cake when the Powerball numbers come in. They sound suspiciously familiar, but she finishes... See More

The Mortal Nuts

by Pete Hautman

(30 reviews)

Targeted by drug addicts, a carnival taco vendor must defend his fortune After years playing professional poker, Axel Speeter knows not to trust people. Retired from the table, this no-nonsense old salt makes ends meet by... See More

Slider

by Pete Hautman

(584 reviews)

Competitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle-grade readers by National Book Award winner Pete Hautman. David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and... See More

The Cydonian Pyramid (Klaatu Diskos Book 2)

by Pete Hautman

(64 reviews)

The much-anticipated sequel to The Obsidian Blade transports readers to the terrifying and thrilling world of Lah Lia, the enigmatic girl who changed Tucker Feye's life. More than half a millennium in the future, in the... See More

Drawing Dead

by Pete Hautman

(17 reviews)

After losing a poker hand to a sleazy stockbroker, an ex-cop must work to pay off his debt Before cocaine, Joe Crow had a wife and a job with the Big River Police Department. Now he has neither -- and he's left behind coke... See More

Ring Game

by Pete Hautman

(9 reviews)

To save a friend's daughter from a bad marriage, Joe Crow confronts cultists, carnies, and cocaine wackos Poker-playing ex-cop Joe Crow has been dealt some rotten hands in his life, but he's survived them all. When Axel... See More

Mr. Was

by Pete Hautman

(93 reviews)

Jack Lund figures a good day is when his dad's too drunk to beat up his mom. For Jack, Bogg's End is the end. The end of the turbulent, see-saw years of watching his father go on the wagon and fall right back off gain... See More

Eden West

by Pete Hautman

(53 reviews)

Tackling faith, doubt, and transformation, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a boy's unraveling allegiance to an insular cult. Twelve square miles of paradise, surrounded by an eight-foot-high chain-link... See More

The Obsidian Blade (Klaatu Diskos Book 1)

by Pete Hautman

(88 reviews)

Kicking off a riveting sci-fi trilogy, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman plunges us into a world where time is a tool -- and the question is, who will control it? The first time his father disappeared, Tucker Feye had... See More

The Rat Queen

by Pete Hautman

(4 reviews)

From National Book Award winner Pete Hautman comes a mysterious modern-day fairy tale about developing a moral compass -- and the slippery nature of conscience. For Annie's tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of... See More

Full House

by Pete Hautman

Is there any greater thrill than staring down your opponent across the poker table, waiting for the card that will make or break your hand? Acclaimed YA novelist Pete Hautman would know -- he's been a poker fanatic for... See More

The Bloodwater Mysteries: Skullduggery

by Pete Hautman

(9 reviews)

While on a class field trip, Roni Delicata and Brian Bain find a local archaeologist unconscious in a cave. Professor Andrew Dart is trying to find evidence of an Indian burial ground to stop the Bloodwater family from... See More

The Bloodwater Mysteries: Doppelganger

by Pete Hautman

(9 reviews)

Brian and Roni are looking for another case to crack when Roni finds an age-progressed picture of a boy who looks alarmingly like Brian on a missing children website. Brian is sure it is only a coincidence?after all, he?s... See More

Otherwood

by Pete Hautman

(54 reviews)

What happened in the woods that day? Pete Hautman's riveting middle-grade novel touches on secrets and mysteries -- and the power of connections with family and friends. "Hatred combined with lies and secrets can break the... See More

No Limit

by Pete Hautman

(10 reviews)

A teen develops a gambling addiction in this risk-heavy read -- in trade paperback for the first time. Sixteen-year-old Denn Doyle's troubles begin with a seemingly harmless -- and extremely profitable -- game of poker with... See More

All-in

by Pete Hautman

(10 reviews)

"You know how they say you can't climb out of a hole till you hit bottom?" "Yeah?" "I'm trying to find the bottom." At seventeen, Denn Doyle isn't old enough to gamble legally, but thanks to his talent for reading... See More

The Flinkwater Factor (The Flinkwater Chronicles Book 1)

by Pete Hautman

(12 reviews)

Ginger must save her high-tech hometown from robots gone rogue in this "quirky, dryly funny" (Booklist) science fiction novel from National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman. Welcome to Flinkwater, Iowa, home of the... See More

The Forgetting Machine (The Flinkwater Chronicles Book 2)

by Pete Hautman

(8 reviews)

People all over Flinkwater are losing their memories -- and it's up to Ginger to figure out what's going on -- in this sequel to the "quirky, dryly funny" (Booklist) The Flinkwater Factor from National Book Award-winning... See More

Sweetblood

by Pete Hautman

(108 reviews)

Sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is Undead -- at least according to her own theories about vampirism. Lucy believes that the first vampires -- with their pale skin, long teeth, and uncontrollable thirst -- were dying diabetics... See More

Road Tripped

by Pete Hautman

(11 reviews)

"Superb road trip novel. By turns introspective and humorous." -- Booklist (starred review) In this captivating story about loss, love, and changing your ways, National Book Award­-winning author Pete Hautman imbues the... See More

Godless

by Pete Hautman

(132 reviews)

"Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion?" Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god -- the town's water tower. He recruits... See More

Rag Man: A Novel

by Pete Hautman

(9 reviews)

Suppose you quit your job, took out a second mortgage, and borrowed every penny of your in-laws' nest egg to start up a surefire new business. What if your partner ran off with all your money? What if you caught up with him... See More

Doohickey: A Novel

by Pete Hautman

(7 reviews)

Nick Fashon is having a bad day. He's just found out his estranged grandfather has died mysteriously in the Arizona desert. Then he meets his potential father-in-law, who turns out to be an ex-cop with a screw loose and a... See More

The Prop: A Novel

by Pete Hautman

(12 reviews)

National Book Award winner Pete Hautman delivers a fast-paced mystery set in the torrid, unforgiving Southwestern desert, where the stakes are sky high and all bets are off. Peeky Kane is a prop player at an Arizona... See More

Hole in the Sky

by Pete Hautman

(20 reviews)

In 2028, a deadly Flu virus ravages the earth. Only one in two thousand survive the virus, and these "Survivors" are rarely left unaffected. By 2038, only 38 million people remain on Earth. Most of them live in small... See More

Invisible

by Pete Hautman

(65 reviews)

You could say that my railroad, the Madham Line, is almost the most important thing in my life. Next to Andy Morrow, my best friend. Lots of people think Doug Hanson is a freak -- he gets beat up after school, and the... See More

How To Steal a Car

by Pete Hautman

(46 reviews)

From National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, the story of a girl who acts out by stealing cars.Some girls act out by drinking or doing drugs. Some girls act out by sleeping with guys. Some girls act out by starving... See More