# Patron Saints of Nothing

**Author:** Randy Ribay
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 2019
**Page count:** 323
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780525554912`
**ISBN-10:** `0525554912`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/patron-saints-of-nothing
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.

## Themes

- murder, fiction
- family life, fiction
- family, fiction
- drugs, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania)

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2020-2021 winner (YA)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2020-2021 winner (YA)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2020-2021 winner (YA)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2020-2021 winner (YA)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)

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