The Schwa Was Here

The Printz Honor award-winning author of Scythe presents a quirky young adult novel, one teen boy holds the secret power of invisibility—and the other sees him. “Antsy tells his story in a bubbly Beastie Boys-meets-Bugs Bunny Brooklynese that keeps the pages flipping.”—School Library Journal, starred review “This is the kind of offbeat story I love best.”—Gordon Korman, author of Son of the Mob “Tantalizing . . . a little off-balance, a little smudged and smirky.”—Time Out New York Kids They say if you stare at him long enough, you can see what’s written on the wall behind him. They say a lot of things about the Schwa, but one thing’s for sure: no one ever noticed him. Except me. My name is Antsy Bonano—and I can tell you what’s true and what’s not, ‘cause I was there. I was the one who realized the Schwa was “functionally invisible” and used…