Adina King

Adina King is a Maine teacher and author whose debut, The House No One Sees, moves between prose and verse as Penelope confronts family history and her mother’s opioid addiction. The novel received a Michael L. Printz Honor and a 2026 Bank Street Best Book of the Year designation.

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The House No One Sees

2025 · Contemporary

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2 editions: Print · 2025 | eBook · 2025

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A Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book A 2026 Bank Street Best Book of the Year Penelope Ross has always felt like a passenger in her mother’s fairytale - until the night of her 17th birthday, when she is forced to enter her own. After a text from her estranged mother rips her away from a night with friends, Penny is forced into a kaleidoscope of memories locked inside the dark labyrinth of her childhood home. As Penny wanders between present and past—prose and verse—she must confront her mother's opioid addiction to mend her fractured past. But the house is tricky. The house is impossible. It wants her to dig up the dead to escape. And as Penny walks through herself to find herself, she is not sure she has the courage to free the light she trapped inside.

Print · Feiwel & Friends · 2025-03-18 · English
ISBN 9781250337191

eBook · Feiwel & Friends · 2025 · English

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Living in Metaphor with Adina King

The Hub talks with King about the magic of libraries, writing about the opioid crisis, and bringing her debut novel from verse and prose into publication.

The Hub · January 9, 2026

Interview with Adina King — YALSA video

TeachingBooks lists a 30-minute YALSA interview with King about The House No One Sees.

TeachingBooks resource

More About Adina King

Adina King is the author of The House No One Sees , a young adult novel that moves between prose and verse as Penelope confronts the memories held inside her childhood home. The publisher describes the book as a story of agency, fractured family history, and a future that has to be claimed.

The novel received a Michael L. Printz Honor and was named a 2026 Bank Street Best Book of the Year . Its catalog record identifies Feiwel & Friends as publisher and gives the 2025 on-sale date.

King’s author site describes her as a Maine teacher and author who works in classrooms and spends time outdoors. In the Hub interview, she talks about the magic of libraries , writing about the opioid crisis, and carrying a debut novel from verse and prose into publication. TeachingBooks also lists a 30-minute YALSA video interview .