Pumpkinheads

A 2020 Tayshas Studying Listing Choice
A 2020 Maverick Graphic Novel Studying Listing Choice

In Pumpkinheads, beloved #1 New York Occasions bestselling writer Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award–profitable artist Religion Erin Hicks have teamed as much as create this tender and hilarious story about two irresistible teenagers discovering what it means to go away behind a spot―and an individual―with no regrets.

Deja and Josiah are seasonal finest pals.

Each autumn, all by way of highschool, they’ve labored collectively at the perfect pumpkin patch in the entire vast world. (Not many individuals know that the perfect pumpkin patch in the entire vast world is in Omaha, Nebraska, nevertheless it undoubtedly is.) They are saying goodbye each Halloween, they usually’re reunited each September 1.

However this Halloween is totally different―Josiah and Deja are lastly seniors, and that is their final season on the pumpkin patch. Their final shift collectively. Their final goodbye.

Josiah’s able to spend the entire evening feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn’t able to let him. She’s obtained a plan: What if―as a substitute of moping and the same old slinging lima beans down on the Succotash Hut―they went out with a bang? They might see all of the sights! Style all of the snacks! And Josiah might lastly speak to that cute woman he’s been mooning over for 3 years . . .

What if their final shift was an journey?