Ask the Passengers

Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying overhead. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to - another girl named Dee. 

There's no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she's trying to answer. But little does hse know just how much sending her love - and asking the right questions - will affect the passengers' lives, and her own, for the better. 

In this unmistakably original portrayal of a girl struggling to break free of society's boxes and definitions, Printz Honor author A.S. King asks readers to question everuthing - and offers hope to those who willl never stop seeking and sharing real love.