The Steps by Van Draanen, Wendelin
The Steps by Van Draanen, Wendelin

The Steps

Riverdale meets The Queen's Gambit in this fun, twisty thriller by an Edgar Award-winning author, featuring a...
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SKU: 9780823460380
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Author: Wendelin Van Draanen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Steps by Van Draanen, Wendelin

The Steps

$30.33
The Steps by Van Draanen, Wendelin

The Steps

$30.33
Author: Wendelin Van Draanen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Riverdale meets The Queen's Gambit in this fun, twisty thriller by an Edgar Award-winning author, featuring a deliciously dysfunctional family with dark secrets and shifting alliances.

Fourteen-year-old chess whiz Ruby Vossen tries to keep to herself. She refuses to be a pawn in her wealthy family's web of deception.

But ever since Ruby's mother and aunt died in a car wreck, the battle lines drawn within the Vossen clan have ruled her life. Ruby's father and uncle became irreparably estranged, and within months, Ruby's cousin/BFF was banished from her life, her father remarried, and she wound up with a gold-digging stepmom who has two teens of her own--The Steps.

So when strange and dangerous things begin happening on the Vossen estate, Ruby sees only one logical explanation: The Steps are scheming to inherit the Vossen fortune. And as things get more and more intense, it seems like killing is in their playbook.

Luckily, Ruby has her own playbook, and she's not about to go down without a fight. She'll even break her dad's rules to get her cousin back on her side of the chessboard . . . It's time to check-mate The Steps before they can finish the Vossens off.

Secrets, lies, and lethal threats abound in this clever, quirky thriller by the award-winning, bestselling author of Flipped and the Sammy Keyes mysteries.

Author: Wendelin Van Draanen
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.75w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780823460380
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/26/2025
Shelf Awareness 06/24/2025
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2025
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2025
Booklist 08/01/2025

About the Author
Wendelin Van Draanen is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than thirty novels for kids and teens. Her books include Flipped, which was named a Top 100 Children's Novel for the 21st Century by SLJ and became a Warner Brothers feature film, the Edgar Award-winning Sammy Keyes mystery series, and The Running Dream, which won ALA's Schneider Family Book award. A high school teacher for fifteen years, Wendelin is now a full time writer who enjoys staying active in the school author-visit space.
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