Block's stories about finding yourself, being true to your dreams, and believing in what might seem impossible will inspire teens and adults alike with the resounding messages of hope and the transformative power of love. We cheer for these young women and men as they struggle with the universal trials of growing up, finding love, and letting go-all within the vivid, glittering, urban embrace of Los Angeles. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.' A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. Spinning a saga of interwoven lives and beating hearts, these postmodern fairy tales take us to a Los Angeles brimming with magical realism: a. This collection brings together all five luminous novels of the series in one paperback. The language is inventive Californian hip, but the patterns are compactly folkloristic and the theme is transcendent. The Weetzie Bat series, by acclaimed author Francesca Lia Block, was listed among NPRs 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels. Blocks far-ranging free association has been controlled and shaped. A kiss about apple pie à la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. Village Voice on Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books.

Block's unique, poetic style immediately draws readers into an intoxicating magical-realist world populated by empathetic, original characters (as well as a few ghosts, fairies, and genies): 'He kissed her. All of the ethereal, mesmerizing titles are here- Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, and Baby Be-Bop-together like the big, beautiful family described on their pages. Lanky lizards! The slinkster-cool novels in Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series have finally been compiled into one delicious volume.

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