Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories - Hardcover

Block, Francesca Lia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060272112 ISBN 13: 9780060272111

Publisher: HarperTeen, 1996

Synopsis

Welcome to Girl Goddess #9, a collection of nine stories about girls by the author of Weetzie Bat.  Here in these pages are girl goddesses of every age and shape and size, wearing combat boots and spiky hair or dressed all in white.  One girl has two moms, another has no mother at all but a strange blue-skinned elf that lives in her closet.  One is a rock-star groupie, another loves dancing and reading peotry and having picnics in the backyard when the moon is full.  Best best girlfriends, lovers gay and straight.  Baby goddesses, singing goddesses, dancing goddesses, writing goddesses-all discovering that the world is not a simple place and that there is more than one way to live.

About this title

Review:

Movie stars, rock stars, pond nymphs, intergalactic superheroes . . . who are the real goddesses in Francesca Lia Block's world? Real young women--the kind who ache, bleed, dance, and talk to blue ghosts in closets. Famous for her lyric Weetzie Bat books, Block blossoms in this collection of short stories about love: straight, gay, familial, and otherworldly. Very few young adult authors talk as frankly as Block about sex and some of the other yearnings we feel in this world, yet she guides her readers toward the self-respect and courage necessary to make smart choices about those yearnings.

About the Author:

Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Weetzie Bat; the book collections Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books and Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales, and Secrets; the illustrated novella House of Dolls; the vampire romance novel Pretty Dead; and the gothic werewolf novel The Frenzy. Her work is published around the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperTeen
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0060272112
• ISBN 13: 9780060272111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Illustrator: Scott Steve