Blood Roses
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Price:
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$7.99
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On Sale:
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6/2/2009
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Formats:
Paperback | Library | E-Book
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What shall we do, all of us? all of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?
In these nine tales of transformation, what's real is what's imagined, and the seemingly ordinary gleams with the magic of possibility.
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Author Extras
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Critical Praise for
Blood Roses
"Individual stories that are riveting and memorable…an overall collection that invites rereading."
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Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
"A strangely haunting collection of whimsy."
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KLIATT
"Lush as ever."
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Publishers Weekly
"Dark, fantastical dreams…will startle, provoke and fascinate."
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Booklist
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Roses and Bones
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The Frenzy
Love is a werewolf, influenced by the moon and terror, and always about to change. Liv has a secret. Something happened to her when she was thirteen. Something that changed everything. Liv knows she doesn’t belong anymore—not in her own skin, not in her family . . . not anywhere. The only time she...
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How Beautiful the Ordinary
A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an...
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