# Dig

**Author:** A. S. King
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2019
**Page count:** 402
**ISBN-13:** `9781101994924`
**ISBN-10:** `1101994924`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/dig-as-king
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth 

## Where this book is assigned

### Michael L. Printz Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2020 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2020 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2020 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2020 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)

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