The Waters & the Wild
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When Bee woke up, there was a girl standing in her room.
"You are me," the girl said. Then she was gone.
I am a thirteen-year-old double Gemini. I get bad grades, write poetry with my left hand, dance in my room, surf the net. I Google images of the tattoos my mom won’t let me get. . . .
But my world belongs to someone else. Someone who lives below the concrete of Los Angeles, someone with wild eyes and twigs in her hair.
And I think she wants her life back.
- Found Family: Sarah belts Billie Holiday beneath the school jacaranda while Haze pores over paranormal encyclopedias, giving Bee a fierce circle of fellow outcasts.
- Changeling Folklore: Ancient superstitions collide with modern California as whispers of cradle exchanges, cold steel tests, and fairy sacrifices threaten Bee’s fragile reality.
- Doppelgangers: Eerie encounters in bathroom mirrors hint that a furious double is determined to reclaim the life Bee thought was hers.
- Also by This Author: Weetzie Bat, The Rose and the Beast and Pink Smog.
Francesca Lia Block
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.
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