![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, and Caitlin loves to chat (incessantly), so feel free to e-mail her, send her a Facebook message, or put up smoke signals. Please, come and join her inside her crazy. She's the author of over thirty novels – romance, new adult, fantasy, and young adult included. can be found with her nose buried in a book or her eyes glued to a computer screen. When she's not vacuuming fur off of her couch, C.M. She hates tapioca pudding, loves to binge on cheesy horror movies, and is a slave to many cats. If being crazy means hanging out with them everyday, C.M. But senior year is going to be different. The Havoc Boys rule the hllhole we call Prescott High. Oh, and half the host of characters in her head are searing hot bad boys with dirty mouths and skillful hands (among other things). There's one word you don't utter at Prescott High, not unless you want them to own you. Some folks might call this crazy, but Caitlin Morgan doesn't mind – especially considering she has to write biographies in the third person. Stunich is a self-admitted bibliophile with a love for exotic teas and a whole host of characters who live full time inside the strange, swirling vortex of her thoughts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Obnoxious, controlling, damaged, and addictive, he inserts himself into her life until all her scars are exposed. ![]() Then she meets Michael Brooks, and for the first time, she feels like she is being seen to the core of her being. Some days the only way Gannon knows she is real is by carving bloody lines into the flesh of her stomach. To her parents, to her teachers-even her best friend, who is more interested in bumming cigarettes than bonding. Seventeen-year-old Amelia Gannon (just "Gannon" to her friends) is invisible to almost everyone in her life. Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Abuseįrom the author of Fault Line comes an edgy and heartbreaking novel about two self-destructive teens in a Sid and Nancy-like romance full of passion, chaos, and dyed hair. Published On: October 7, 2014, by Simon Pulse ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. ![]() ![]() ![]() An oracle explains that these dreams are prophetic and sends her and her friends to a magical city populated with spirits who chat on cellphones. Sunny's been having strange nightmares, possibly tied to new environmental disasters. The magic appears influenced by Igbo religious practices in Sunny’s diverse Nigeria, populated by Muslims and Christians, where Sunny and her African-American and Nigerian friends learn magic and eat in Uzoma’s Chinese Restaurant. A superstitious bigot accuses Sunny (who does draw supernatural power from her albinism) of being a witch as albino Nigerians suffer genuine harm from such accusations, the truth in this attack strikes a discordant note. Sunny is albino, though her magic has eliminated most disabling effects aside from a need to wear glasses. ![]() Now she alternates among regular school Leopard training with her teacher, Sugar Cream training with her magical alter ego spirit face and hiding her secret life from her parents and brothers. ![]() ![]() A soccer-loving, American-born Nigerian 13-year-old matures into her mystical powers.Ī few years after her Igbo parents brought their children to live in Nigeria ( Akata Witch, 2011), Sunny Nwazue had learned she belonged to the mystical Leopard People. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fun, and useful: what child would not be encouraged to talk about being shy when there is a cantaloupe that admits to exactly the same thing?" - Kirkus Reviews ![]() "Children and their keepers will be astonished to discover how closely the wrinkles, bends, and creases in produce can mimic human feelings. Use this book to discuss different moods, to introduce the names of many fruits and vegetables, to identify colors, and to inspire young artists to create sculptures of their own." - School Library Journal, starred review Accompanied by simple rhymes, the attractive photographs burst with color. * "An eye-catching and enormously appealing book. As a book about feelings, a kitchen-witchery tour de force or a spur to crafts action on your own or with your kids, How Are You Peeling? is charming, friendly, instructive and, of course, appealing (spell it how you will)." - The New York Times Book Review ![]() The easygoing, conversational text is reassuring and upbeat about social encounters for the very young. "Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers have created sweet and feisty little beings with feelings, passions, fears, and an emotional range that is. A New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book ![]() |