BUTTER
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781619631212
Published: September 4, 2012
A boy everyone calls “Butter” is about to make Scottsdale High history. He’s going to eat himself to death live on the Internet – and everyone will watch. He announces his deadly plan to an army of peers and expects pity, insults or even indifference. Instead, he finds morbid encouragement. When that encouragement tips the scales into popularity, Butter has a reason to live. But if he doesn’t go through with his plan, he’ll lose everything.
- 2016 Abraham Lincoln Masterlist
- 2016 Nevada Young Readers Award nominee
- 2016 Iowa High School Book Award nominee
- 2015 Sakura Medal winner
- 2015 High School Sequoyah Masterlist
- 2014 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize nominee
- 2014 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award nominee
- 2014 Blue Hen Book Award nominee
- 2014 TAYSHAS List
- 2013 Teens’ Top Ten Pic
Butter on the BIG SCREEN! Butter, the movie, debuted in theaters nationwide in February, 2022. It is now streaming.
"Using current, hot-button topics–cyberbullying, obesity, and teen suicide–the author weaves a compelling tale sure to draw teens in.”
– School Library Journal STARRED Review
"A strong, gutsy debut.”
– Booklist
"Lange’s emotionally expansive first novel is dark, funny, painful, and powerful.”
– Publishers Weekly
"Rubbernecking the train wreck that is Butter's last meal makes for an uncomfortably thought-provoking read."
– Kirkus Reviews
“A clever, tender and emotional page-turner! Butter’s sharp and witty narrative had me laughing out loud on one page and broke my heart just as easily on the next. Debut author Erin Jade Lange proves she knows how to tell a story and this is one I won’t be forgetting any time soon.”
– Courtney Summers, author of SADIE and SOME GIRLS ARE