A 2020 Tayshas Reading List Selection A 2020 Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Selection
In Pumpkinheads beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner
Award-winning artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this tender and hilarious story
about two irresistible teens discovering what it means to leave behind a place-and a
person-with no regrets. Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. Every autumn all through
high school they've worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not
many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha Nebraska but
it definitely is.) They say good-bye every Halloween and they're reunited every September 1.
But this Halloween is different-Josiah and Deja are finally seniors and this is their last
season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last good-bye. Josiah's ready to
spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn't ready to let him. She's got a
plan : What if-instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash
Hut-they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah
could finally talk to that cute girl he's been mooning over for three years . . . What if
their last shift was an adventure?
