{"product_id":"atty-in-love-9781644213988","title":"Atty in Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e Best Young Adult Book of the Year, 2024 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA tender and funny contemporary story about first love \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e animal rights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen feisty 13 year old Atticus Peale meets a mysterious boy in her Alabama town, she has to make a tough choice between her values as an activist and her first real love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAtticus T. Peale--Atty for short--is thirteen and a self-described advocate for animals. She's also a vegetarian atheist in the heart of the Deep South's bible belt, where ribs and guns and church are a way of life, and euthanizing animals is just the way they've always dealt with strays. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaving already been to court to save her dog Easy, Atty spends a lot of her free time designing plans for a no-kill-shelter in her small Alabama town while juggling school work, hanging out with her best friend Reagan, and battling \"the blues.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when Atty meets a mysterious boy at the county fair, her world begins to crumble. As it becomes increasingly clear that this boy--with his wild hair and rough hands--works with a captive animal, Atty must choose between her own values and the boy she's fallen for. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtty in Love\u003c\/i\u003e is about the tough choices that arise when two principled people disagree. It is also a story about what it means to, as Atty likes to say, \"contain multitudes\"--to love both men and women, to defend your mixed-race family in the American South, to care for someone who experiences the world in fundamentally different ways than you do. Tender and laugh-out-loud funny, the book includes an interview with the Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic's real-life animal law expert Katherine Meyer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Lockette\u003c\/b\u003e is a teacher, writer, and former journalist who lives in Jacksonville, Alabama. His middle-grade debut novel, \u003ci\u003eAtty at Law\u003c\/i\u003e, was praised in a starred review from \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e. His next two novels, \u003ci\u003e Tell It True\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtty in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, were written for young adult readers. \u003ci\u003eTell It True\u003c\/i\u003e was a Junior Literary Guild Selection and won the Whippoorwill Book Award, which honors books that dispel stereotypes about young people in rural areas and small towns.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Triangle Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878135664914,"sku":"9781644213988","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0832e073-070e-4386-8031-8d508acffa06.jpg?v=1738172494","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/atty-in-love-9781644213988","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}