Francesca Lia Block
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist.
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist. Some of the fairy tales that these stories are based on are easily recognizable and others are not. The fairy tales used include Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, the Snow Queen, and Beauty and the Beast.
2) Weetzie Bat
Author
Series
Weetzie Bat volume 1
Pub. Date
[1989]
Description
Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles friends, Dirk, Duck, and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.
5) Baby be-bop
Author
Series
Weetzie Bat volume 5
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother
8) Pretty dead
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Beautiful vampire Charlotte finds herself slowly changing back into a human after the mysterious death of her best friend.
9) Echo
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Jealous of her perfect mother and ignored by her artist father, Echo seeks attention and healing from a variety of people living in beautiful Los Angeles.
10) The frenzy
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When she was thirteen, something terrifying and mysterious happened to Liv that she still does not understand, and now, four years later, her dark secret threatens to tear her apart from her family and her true love.
11) Violet & Claire
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In search of material for a screenplay they are developing, seventeen-year-old Violet and her new friend Claire try to make life a movie as they chase their dreams through dangerously beautiful Los Angeles.
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Meet Tweetie Sweet Pea and Peachy Pie, Jacaranda and Rave and Desiree... Meet Lady Ivory and Alabaster Dutchess, who interview their favorite rock star, Nick Agate, only to discover the magic and power in themselves. Meet Tuck Budd, who is happy living in Manhattan with her two moms, Izzy and Anastasia, until she begins to wonder who her father is. Meet La, who faces the loss of her mother with an imaginary androgynous blue friend who lives in her...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Pen, Hex, Ash, Ez, and Venice are living on hard work, companionship, and dreams in the pink house by the sea until a foreboding ship arrives and all start having strange visions of destruction and violence then, trance-like, they head for the ship and their new battles, with Pen using Virgil's epic Aeneid as her guide.
17) Kisses from Hell
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Truly, Madly, Undead-lyThis irresistible collection features stories of love amid vampires by five of today's hottest authors-Kristin Cast (Tempted), Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy), Alyson Noël (Evermore), Kelley Armstrong (The Summoning), and Francesca Lia Block (Pretty Dead). From a fugitive vampire forced to trust a boy who might work for the group bent on destroying her to the legendary romance of two immortals whose love compels them to risk...
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Summer meets love in both fantasy and reality in this anthology featuring renowned writers of both teen and adult fiction.
Summer is the perfect time for love to bloom, and these short stories of teenagers facing the confusing maze of first love will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake. The selections range from heartfelt to outlandish, as the characters find passion in some very unexpected places.
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